Thanksgiving.... holidays... no relaxing

So it was an ok weekend/week.....

WENESDAY
Wednesday was crazy. I worked, then Catie worked, then I went to run sound at church, then I left and Catie and I dropped off Soe and Noelen with Catie's mom (until we went down to see the family on Friday). Then we went shopping for food making supplies.

THURSDAY
Thursday was nice, it was just me Catie and Jude. We went to church and had thanksgiving, which was fun and relaxing.... I could have stayed longer. The food was good. I mad a sour cream apple pie and southwest black bean soup... they both turned out pretty good (especially since I had never made either of them). I was pretty impressed with myself.... I cooked the black beans from dried ones..... and let me tell you... that takes a long time. It took about 3 hours or more... but the soup was good, so it was worth it. In fact all of the food was really good. Barry had a turkey that he raised himself... it was tasty. So were the mashed potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry punch. mmmmmmmmmmm.... I could go for all of that right now.

FRIDAY
Then on Friday I worked at Menards and Catie went shopping... @ 3:30 am ... she is insane. Work for me was crazy but very entertaining and the time went by fast. People are crazy on black Friday but a lot of them are actually really nice and just having a great time shopping. As long as they are having fun, they are really easy to deal with. The only frustrating part was the manager from plumbing asking "Are you doing anything or just wandering around". My first thought was, "Are you serious?" This was after I had just walked a customer to another side of the store and on the way back to my department I looked at a faucet for literally 20 seconds.... I didn't even really stop. So I said back, "What are you doing?" He didn't know what to say, because he was doing the same thing I was doing. I think he was mad at that response but I am a hard worker and the manager is 2 years older than me. I know I probably won't get in trouble for it... not a great response but seriously.... I don't need to be bullied around, just because some dude needs to use his power.

Menards is a hard place to work for me sometimes. I know that I could be a manager and probably do a better job then some of the managers but being a morning stocker we are mere peons. It has been humbling... as most of my life has been as of late. But I guess all you can do it just keep being humbled. It sucks sometimes but I learn a lot.

Anyways, Friday night Catie and I drove to Catie's mom's house. It was good to see Noelen and Soe again, they were excited to see us but they were more excited to see Jude (which was cool). Then we chilled and ate pizza.... so it was pretty ok.

SATURDAY

Saturday morning I woke up at 7:30 and watched TV and played with the kids. We were supposed to meet Catie's mom and her boyfriend at a restaurant for lunch (and Noelen's b-day) at 11:30 but Soe pooped all over herself at 11:00am and I got it all over the only pair of pants I brought so we didn't get to the restaurant until about 12:00 but it was ok. The food was pretty good. I ate shrimp but the kids were all grumpy and ready to nap.. so it was hard to sit down and eat as always. Catie's mom brought presents to the restaurant but the kids were so crazy we made Noelen go out to the van to open his presents... he got a couple trucks and a stuffed snake... he loved it. Then we took the kids home to nap for a bit (a few hours). Catie took a nap too and I watched a bit of football (there just wasn't much good on). Then at 4:30 we went to Catie's dad's thanksgiving. It was pretty fun. We had really good pizza, I played catch/football with Catie's 2 younger cousins and then I watched Alabama slap around Clemson. Then Noelen opened a few more presents (good day for him) and we all ate cake and ice cream. Then we went home and put the kids to bed. Then I watched Oklahoma slap around Oklahoma State... and fell asleep until 5:30am..

SUNDAY

I woke up to hear Jude crying and hungry at 5:30am. I thought it was only 3:30 (there are no clocks around) but I was strangely awake... so I watched the History channel until 6:30 when the rest of the kids woke up. Then I played with the kids for a few hours and drove down 45 minutes to pick up Catie's grandma. When we got back to the house we found out no one was really coming to the dinner except immediate family (like 3 more people besides my kids). So we had a lot to eat.... but the food wasn't very good, seeing Catie's mom is not the best cook.... and the turkey was dry again.... every year.... this year at least she made it have more flavor. So ate and watched football for as long as possible (about an hour) and then we left to come back home (3:30 so we got home about 5:00ish). It was good to be home.....


So that is Thanksgiving.... now we get to do it all again in 3 weeks (only with more families)... yeah! Holidays are so relaxing and fun!