Thanksgiving and Black friday Sales are over!

Hi all: The last three days have been very busy for me. I started getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner which I hosted in my home for 19 family members. My little house is just to small for the family any more, or maybe I should just say very cozy for 19. I cooked a 24 lbs turkey, cranberries, home made rolls, roasted almonds, made a cranberry white choc. crunch and pineapple cranberry salad. It was also when we celebrated my grandson's birthdays. Jeremiah turned 5 on the 13th November, Elizabeth was born on the 16th and Josiah will be 4 on Tuesday the 27th. So Jeremiah asked for a rocket ship cake and Josiah wanted a treasure chest cake. So I also baked and decorated the two cakes for them. My nephew Adam spent the day with us on Wednesday so He helped me decorate the two cakes and put together the cheese ball we were also having on Thanksgiving day. Thank you Adam!

Everyone left about 7:30 and I quickly loaded the dishwasher and laid down for a nap because my friend Stacey and I were off to the Birch run outlet stores at 10:30 p.m.. It was cold but we made the hour trip north of here and spent 45 minutes waiting on I75 in traffic to exist off the freeway into the outlet mall area. That should of been our first clue that it was going to be a long night. Honestly, I don't know why I thought that no one would be there. We shopped until 2:30 a.m. and then headed to Bob Evans for breakfast. It felt good to sit. We left there and headed south on the freeway toward home and arrived at Kohl's for it early opening of 4:00 a.m.. We found what we were looking for, but the line for the registers was all the way through the store to the back, on both sides. So we returned to the shelves what we thought we needed and headed for Meijers. We found some of what we needed and then headed across the parking lot to Target. We waited in the car for 1/2 hour until Target opened at 6:00 a.m.. It was crazy in there but we found most of what Stacey and I wanted. Then we were off to K-mart, then Walgreen's and we were done!

I got home around 9:00 a.m. and it was long that they exhaustion set in. I got physically ill and went to bed and slept until 1:30. That helped. I am feeling better and finished cleaning up from yesterday. I got dinner for Gary and now we will rest and watch a movie.

Tomorrow I will bring the Christmas tree and decoration up from the basement. I enjoy decorating the house and putting the lights up outside. I did the outside last week when it was still warm and still have a little left to to.

Well, I realized that I am not as young as I use to be and going with out sleep took it tole on me today. Live and Learn! Hope the beginning to this Blessed season is one you are looking forward to.

Chat with you again soon,

Grandma Cheryl