Friday, November 25, 2011

I'm Thankful for Elastic Waistbands

Today is a great day to spend in my pajama pants. I had a really hard time just trying to fit breakfast into my still stuffed belly...it was a great Thanksgiving! Branden and I hadn't had an actual Thanksgiving meal in 2 years, so it was wonderful to taste all of those wonderful foods again. Although, I will say that I really am a sad excuse for an American because normally Thanksgiving food does little to excite me. Turkey is not my favorite meat, I am not a fan of pumpkin pie, stuffing is really iffy, and cranberries just make me think of a UTI. This has actually been a good thing for me in the past because it meant that I was the only person not engorging themselves to the point of sickness. With all that said, my mom-in-law introduced me to fabulous twists on Thanksgiving food that had me unbuttoning my pants and heading for seconds! Last night's food was also amazing, and I happily did my part in eating like a true American.

We couldn't find butterscotch because it's not very popular over here so we had to make our sweet potatoes with brown sugar and cinnamon with marshmallows on the top...the Germans were baffled (as well as most of the other non-Americans at our feast). It was a hit though, and I don't think there was much, if any, left by the end of the night. It was actually my first time making sweet potatoes and my first time eating them like this because as I said above, it wasn't my kind of food...or so I thought.

We left the festivities a little early so that we could Skype my parents. My mom and dad were hosting Thanksgiving at their house so we got to see my grandparents, my aunt, a few cousins, and my cousin's almost 2 year old son. He is so cute! It was really nice to see everyone again and give a little catch up. I'm pretty sure my grandpa wasn't able to hear anything we said since he's so deaf, but he still sat in the room and smiled at us through the screen.

Now that Thanksgiving is done and dusted, I can officially hound you all with Christmas stuff!


Or for all you cat lovers out there:


Moral of the videos: Let your dog do your decorating and let your cat do the tear down!

I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving as well! Or for my non-American readers, I hope you had a good ole' regular Thursday!

15 comments:

  1. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Those video's were hilarious!

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  2. Glad you had a good day kiddo. Aren't elastic waistbands just wonderful on days like those?

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  3. Unfortunately, elastic waistbands pants are the ONLY kind some of us wear. I am grateful God invented them.

    There's a whole series of Simon's Cat cartoon--I love them!

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  4. Sounds like you had a lot more food than I did, because I had leftovers at midnight.

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  5. I love the doggie video. The black and white dog looks just like my Franklin. I wonder if he was an actor before I adopted him. And I wear elastic waistbands about 360 days of the year. The other five days I'm naked.

    Love,
    Lola

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  6. What about using Butterscotch Schnapps instead of regular butterscotch. I mean surely the Scotts have Butterscotch Schnapps right?? Right??

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  7. Sounds like you had a great time. I too will be joining the PJ pants crew today.

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  8. The title of this blog had me laughing out loud HAH. It warmed my heart to hear that you had a good Thankgiving - and YAY CHRISTMAS SO FREAKIN' EXCITED! Bring it on, BRING IT ON please?

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  9. You know, we have 2 cats and a decision to make as to whether or not we're going to even attempt a tree this year. I'm impressed with your parents being able to Skype with you for Thanksgiving. My mom would never be able to figure that out and Dad is no longer alive to help her with it.

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  10. It wouldn't let me watch the dog video but the cat one....mmm, i think I would have skinned it alive!. Glad you enjoyed TG Day Maggie - Dave

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  11. Please please please don't mention Christmas already, I'm dreading the run up to it.

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  12. I'm hoping watching that video didn't give our cat any ideas!

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  13. I'm glad you guys had such a great Thanksgiving! I wonder what the Europeans would've thought of the spectacle over here....lol

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  14. I'm so glad you enjoyed thanksgiving! Mine was great also!!! And I am so stuffed! Still....

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  15. I'm so glad to hear that you had a great Thanksgiving. :0)

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Does this straitjacket make my butt look big?