is this eating yummy things thing over yet?

Mirielle Joy making some real whipped cream. I had Emily take the picture because my older kids don't like when I come around with the camera. I should never have let them know about this blog...

Our turkey dinner was delicious...I can't decide what was the best, the sweet potatoes or the squash, or the stuffing...or of course the turkey. I only tasted the mashed potatoes, which had red potatoes with some skins still on, yum, and I skipped the rolls. The whole process of getting dinner on the table was fun - Joseph carved the turkey (some of the pieces were huge, I was laughing my head off at this one huge chunk he put on the platter, and he said, "What? You just cut off what you want!"). Emily had the task of peeling the skin off the squash and mashing it up with butter. The little kids put the rolls on the pans, lots of us peeled the potatoes, I mashed them up. Mirielle did the sweet potatoes, Aaron put the olives in bowls, Margaret put the pickles out, Abigail did the cranberry sauce, I made the gravy. The younger girls set the table.

After dinner we had pie, and played Scattergories. One of the things was, "Things Cheryl hates" (my sister Cheryl)...and the letter was, "S". Only one person said spiders! The blueberry pie was really good, but the chocolate mousse pie Mirielle made was...well, it was just plain deadly. I was glad it got eaten all up. There are still too many pies around here, I just have to pretend they are horrible. I have had enough good stuff, even though the pieces of pie I had were very small. I didn't totally pig out, but I am still up a few pounds, no fair.

Today, the older kids are at the Dome for a football game, Paul is hunting, and we are just chilling. Yes, there is work to do, but I am thinking of taking these younger kids somewhere fun....