Thanksgiving…

This year, Thanksgiving was probably about the same as last year, with a few additions. I spent the holiday in Baton Rouge (just as I do every other day). The major endeavor this time was research on how to fry a turkey. With every ‘i’ dotted and every ‘t’ crossed, the turkey frying was a success–not even a small fire was sparked. My husband and I awoke Thanksgiving morning around 6:00am and went to start the turkey-frying process at my in-laws’ house. Before the turkeys were finished, we went to pick up my grandpa for 10:30am to bring him to my dad’s house in Donaldsonville. We had a great Turkey-Day feast there (for which I made my famous “Pecan Delight” pie). We left his house, stuffed bellies and all, around 2:00pm, brought my grandpa home, and headed straight home for the Thanksgiving nap. After awaking that night, it was nothing but shop-shop-shop from 11:30pm to 2:00pm the next day. I’m not sure how I made it through the “Wal-Mart experience,” but all was well and I got to pick out some nice Christmas presents (for myself, of course…).

I was glad to have a break toward the end of school so I could take a minute and get my thoughts together. Unfortunately, most of the plans I made to study and finish up projects were derailed due to the death of my uncle. I was kind of dreading coming back to school because I had to make-up a couple of things I missed on the Monday and Tuesday before. I wished I had more time to do everything that needed to be done.