Holiday Season 2021

I will not even address how long it's been since I last posted....No excuse, not even gonna try to justify it!

We are getting ready for our annual family Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.  John has readied the spatchcocked turkey, the clove-studded ham and the cranberry relish that his family looks forward to each year.  I've made the pumpkin pie and the mince pie, gotten the whipped topping out of the freezer to thaw, and am ready to mix up the dressing which will go into the over tomorrow.  I've had the robot vaccuum the house, mom dusted on Sunday, and I suspect we could be ready if the family arrived earlier than tomorrow!  Wish everyone a most Happy Thanksgiving.

Friday we will go down to Branson, to my best friend Fran's house, and celebrate the holiday with them. And Saturday is our annual Knotwell Girls Cookie Baking Day.  I need to get a batch of Grandma's Sugar Cookie Dough made up so I'm not rushed on Saturday.  We have this down to a well-oiled machine after so many years!  One of us rolls the dough out, one uses all the cookie cutters to cut the shapes, one shakes the sprinkles on, then I put the tray into the oven and take it out when they are done, one puts the cooled cookies into everyone's cookie tin.  And we begin all over again.... This will be the first time since Covid struck that we will be able to do Cookie Day and we've since lost 2 of the sisters so it will be bittersweet, to be sure. 

We started the holiday season off a couple of weeks ago.  John, Mom and I drove down to Branson to go to the Trail of Lights - a drive-thru Christmas light show.  You tune your car radio to a specific station and drive thru the parklike setting. 

What a great way to begin the holidays.

2 weeks ago, we added another member to our Fur Family.  Angel is a 6 month old English Cream Golden Retriever.  Her original family was unable to keep her due to some family issues and we were chosen to be her new family.  

Isn't she lovely?  She is already crate trained - making it easier to go to bed at night and keep the pups from being able to play into the night while we are trying to sleep! She's mostly house trained.  She had never seen a doggy door but it took her less than 24 hours to learn how to go outside all by herself!  She's scheduled to become a lady at the end of next week.  And her first groomer appointment is this Tuesday.  She's so sweet...and she is going to be so much bigger than Shiloh - when I compare their feet, his look like ballerina feet compared to her lumberjack feet!  They get along great - as you can tell here.

Also last week, mom and my best friend and I went down to Branson to see a Christmas show put on by a family called the Bretts.They've been entertaining in Branson for over 20 years.  What a lovely show they put on.  And it was neat to get to share it with my two best girlfriends! 

Thank you for stopping by.  Wishing you all a most Happy Thanksgiving (if you celebrate that holiday) and a Joyous and Blessed Christmas (just in case I don't get around to blogging beforehand).