Not a good night to find sleep last night. I have been tired all day. I am getting up at 4:00 in the morning to put the turkey in the oven. May go to bed early tonight. I can go back to bed after I get the turkey going if I can go back to sleep. I really won’t have anything else to do until 9:00 or so.
It was a rough start to my day. Jason opened a bank account and needed to add me to the account. I had completed the steps that bank requested but still got an email asking me to call them for more verification. The lady that answered had a thick accent and I had trouble understanding her. They needed me to send them another picture of my drivers license. I had already done this so not sure why I had to do it again.
I tried three times with the lady on the phone waiting. It would not accept any of them. I asked her what my options were and initially she said I didn’t have any. She finally said I could bring it to my local bank.
I tried again after she hung up and it went through. But it had gone through before so not sure I am finished or not. Sometimes these things feel very difficult for me. I was not in a good mood when I finished all that.
I baked five pies this morning. Chopped up the celery and onions for the dressing and prepped the veggies for the roasted vegetables I am going to put in the crock pot. I also broke the bread I am using for the dressing into bits and pieces.
I went to the liquor store and got some wine. I asked the lady at the store to pick out two bottles of white wine and two bottles of red. She started asking questions and I said I know nothing about wine and that it is useless for her to ask me anything. She picked out the wine but said it felt like a lot of responsibility I was putting on her. I apologized and told her I wouldn’t tell on her. When I got home, Kathy said she liked the choices. The lady did good!
I got a message today and found out four more are coming for dinner tomorrow. Yikes! I will have a very full house. I am sure I have plenty of food – just not sure where everyone is going to sit/stand. I’m sure it will all work out. I remember going to Grandma’s small house and many more than that all fit.
I needed a few more chairs and one more table. My SIL offered to bring those. That was easy! I moved the riding bike into my bedroom to open a bit more floor space in the dining room. Jason is bringing another card table so I can put it up in the kitchen to put food on. I don’t have enough counter space to lay all the food out for people to fill their plates.
I made myself a schedule for tomorrow. If I use the roasting pan to keep the turkey and ham warm I will have enough oven space. I may have to put the crock pots and roasting pan in my bedroom to cook as I don’t have enough counter space to have them going and still have room to make the rest of the dinner. Sometimes you have to get creative to get things done.
Trusting tomorrow will be a better day for me. I hope I got my crankiness over with today! I so enjoy having a house full of people and tomorrow I will get that and more! Trusting I won’t have a cooking disaster.
Not sure I like this colder weather. We got a bit of rain today but it didn’t amount to much. Tomorrow it is to be sunny so that will help. The dogs came inside for most of the day so they wouldn’t get wet and stink up the house. Grateful they can be outside tomorrow as there won’t be room for them. It is only going to be 42 tomorrow so too cold for some to sit on the front porch and eat. Inside will be warm and toasty with all the people coming.
Tonight I will get the tables set up and set. I will still need to set one more table when it gets here tomorrow.
Thanksgiving always seems to kick off the holiday season for me. It is the only part of the holiday season I love. I’m grateful Nicole and I are going on a little vacation mid month in December. That will give me something to look forward to that I will enjoy. We are doing my family Christmas on the 21st. That will be here before I know it.
Not sure I could live in this small house if I fixed a meal for 24 everyday. It takes some planning and thought to get things done. I have to fix one thing at a time and do the dishes and clean up after myself and then start the next thing. Takes longer than it did in the big house. Good thing I only do this occasionally and this small house works great the rest of the time.
No plans for the weekend. Tagen and I need to open two bank accounts so may get that done but Tagen is going out of town for a day or two and not sure he is available. That task may have to wait for next week.
Next week looks fairly quiet so will get some more stay at home quiet days. I do need to make my Christmas treat list and go get groceries one day. If I make one treat a day I will be in good shape for the 21st.
Grateful the feast preparation has started, grateful for all the friends and family that are coming tomorrow, and grateful for a day to stop and give thanks for all the blessings I have.