Thanksgiving Smörgåsbord

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Can you believe it's almost Thanksgiving?! I can't...seriously. Because that means I've been married 10 days now and I just can't bring myself to believe it. Where has the week gone?!

Life at home has slowed, but only by a bit. The last of our England family is off back home today and we'll miss everyone very much. It was so nice to sneak in a little bit more time together! Hopefully, it won't be too long before we can visit again. There's rumors floating around about a family reunion in 2011...some lovely, sunny destination, too. Now, wouldn't that be something? One can certainly hope!

Over dinner at my in-laws last night, we got to talking about an American's traditional Thanksgiving. My new (British) "uncle-in-law" asked me to tell him everything our Thanksgiving entailed. Now that is a fun question to answer and it helped me really start to crave Momma's Thanksgiving meal! (yeah, Momma is still cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year. What a bad wife I am...next year is mine, though, I swear!)

So, back to the question of what makes up my traditional Thanksgiving meal. It only took a couple minutes to recite nearly every yummy morsel (with the Mr. in the background shouting out, "Did you remembers" at me.) What fun!

Then all of that Thanksgiving talk got me thinking today...Thanksgiving traditions are different for every family all over the States. Some have corn bread pudding and pecan pie, others might smoke or deep fry a turkey. Next year, Thanksgiving will be mine to host, but I want to take the opportunity to both pay homage to my traditions and start a few new ones while I'm at it!

Here's what we have every year:

· oven-baked turkey
· Stauffer's stuffing (cooked inside the bird and with additional ingredients...Momma doesn't do giblets!)
· mashed potatoes and Momma's famous gravy
· sweet potatoes (normally without marshmallows)
· Sissy's green bean casserole
· cranberry sauce (I like it from the can, still in gelatinous can-shape, others fresh...so there's normally both)
· some veggies (carrots, corn and/or broccoli)
· some type of salad
· baked bread rolls
· pumpkin pie w/ whipped cream
· normally at least one other dessert, usually changes year-to-year

So...which of your Thanksgiving faves are missing from my list - or - if your list looks like mine, what is your absolute favorite part of a Thanksgiving meal? I hope to glean some new, fun and tasty traditions from your suggestions!

Drive, Drive on Down the Field...

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GO BUCKS!!!

A Very Weird Night

He's 17. And I'm a perv, apparently.

So there I was, sitting in a crazy-packed theater last night, watching Twilight with my date (Momma) and all of a sudden, I feel sick. Really sick. Like...barfy sick. There's about 45 minutes to the start of New Moon and I feel like barfing. Great.

I went to the rest room. I came back. I went out for fresh air and a cold water. Nope. Still close to barfing. Came back and told Momma some seriously crap news...I had to go home. Yes. Before New Moon had even begun. Yippee.

Because we're pretty crazy fans, I had my darling husband pick me up and bring me home, so Momma could stay to watch it (serious time was invested, people!) The kindest girl at AMC Lennox let me exchange my ticket for any show I wanted...so at 11:55 a.m. this morning, Momma and I went to see New Moon! Finally! And yes, she saw it again without a complaint (really, watching a shirtless Taylor Lautner is a pretty pleasant thing...pulling teeth and/or begging was entirely unnecessary.)

So Yay! That was my morning and, even though last night was almost a complete bust for me, I'm just happy to report two things: 1. 1 think it's a million percent better than the way Twilight was done and 2. I hate to say it but Kristin Stewart is a mouth-breather. And really. Not such a great actress. Oh it pains me to say that because I'm fairly certain all fans really want her to be so much better than she is, but alas. She's not a good actor. Not at all. Paint drying would generate more of a palpable response. (God help me if she ever reads this blog...Kristin, I'm sorry, but really. You're pretty bad. Invest your money well and live a great life. Milk it for all it's worth and laugh all the way to the bank. I'll buy you a beer if you're ever in Ohio because I swear I'm not a bitch. You're just really that bad.)

The moral of this story is...I married my "Edward", who would never abandon me in my time of need. Go Team EveDan!

Where To Begin?

There's a billion things that I want to gush over about our wedding, but it's so hard to do without the proper visual aides that professional photos offer. I love the few non-pro pics we have in our possession, but I don't want to blab about all the details now...just to have to share the photos in (hopefully) January and have everyone sick of wedding talk. So...would you mind waiting a bit more for the juicy wedding talk until then?

Honestly, it may help me to recollect my thoughts and relive the entire experience in the coming new year. As of this moment, I'm not entirely sure it's all had the time to really sink in. With TWO huge trips on the horizon (more on that shortly...), thank you notes to write and Thanksgiving just a week away, I may have to lean toward the non-wedding related posts for a bit longer.

The problem is...what to talk about? The wedding really consumed us all there for awhile and I'm not sure where to begin not talking about it! So, I'll leave it to you...what would you like to read about? I have quite a few new projects on the horizon that I'd love to share with you, pre-honeymoon discussion and lots of fun newlywed nesting tidbits. How does that sound? Anything else? I'm all ears eyes :)