Zany, Blessed Thanksgiving

On a bright, early morning, David and I had a nervous wrecked to do all of the errands before our loving family coming out for our first Thanksgiving feast in our cozy home. Can you image we did our short errands: mowing our front yard, vacuuming, taking all of the ash dust out of our brand new BBQ and few other little errands that needed to be done within three hours?

That s right, three hours!?! Oh boy, we were freaking our minds out until our first guest, Linda Miller who arrived an hour before others coming in our home. She did witness David rushing his last minute errands including putting his first time Turkey in his brand new BBQ ! My mom and Bruce, who came all the way from South Carolina, showed up on our first Thanksgiving, too. Within only an hour left for the actual time, David sweat himself whether we were going to eat with or without a turkey on our first Thanksgiving. Luckily, we had several other guests (Uncle Doug, Richard and Bruce) came in to rescue David.

Our first Thanksgiving meal did not start an hour and a half late. All of the relatives were acting it out by facial expressions since they were starving. Who wouldn't blame them especially listening to our whining sons, Dylan and Ryan who begged for their meal, even serving them with a mini cheese ball ??? The heartfelt Aunt Pam were kind to offer these two boys for their tiny mini cheese ball before the real meal started. Still they were hungry, and continued to make facial expression. Know who started it? It was Cousin Becky and then Dylan started making face.

Finally, our first Turkey was on our kitchen island. David was so proud to show his very first Turkey off (Truthfully, it was half cooked, and other turkey half was not cooked) But Cousin Beth decided to show David the proper way of cutting/killing the turkey. We even had other meat, Honey baked Ham and Fillet as a back-up, if the turkey did not go well. But with a miracle, we had some luck to taste our first Turkey. It was not that bad enough to kill you!

Uncle Doug could not get enough of eating his own meal! He would rather to have it all to himself before anyone was allowed to have a mouth-watering meal. Again, after all we had our delicious meal, none of us were stuffed until we had a dessert: Custard, Pumpkin Pie, Cinnamon Apple Pie, and Cheesecake with cherries on the top. Uncle Doug and Beth wanted to have something more tasty-- making a homemade whipped cream. It was too good for anyone to have one, especially Ryan who had his eyes bigger than his own stomach.

Boy, many of us became sleepy due to having so much stuff in our stomach. Some of them snoozed it off while National Football League TV was running on. That included my own mother who woke up at wee hours before arriving our house. The only person who did not fall asleep during the football game was Grandpa Jarvis. He adored football !!!

While not being snoozed off, David decided to give Cathy, my mother in law a back plus massage system. OHHH ,that was heaven for anyone, including Uncle Doug and Aunt Pam who were all stressed up got a massage. Grandma Jarvis just enjoyed relaxing and chatting with everyone she knew.

What a hectic day we have had! Still, we thanked for our first zany, blessed Thanksgiving !