Day 35

Today was a HUGE SUCCESS! I'm so happy!

I woke up and got ready, then went out to the garage to get the turkey out of the fridge. It was squidgy but still a bit frozen so I was a little worried. I put it in a basin filled with cold water and luckily it thawed by the time I needed it. I put my music on and away I went. From 12 until 6 I did not leave the kitchen.

I chopped all of the vegetables...carrots, parsnips and potatoes. I gutted the turkey, and made the stuffing. Put the stuffing in the bird and got it in the oven. I had a few little interruptions but the boys didn't bother me too much. Josh came in to spend some time with me which was nice, Zach came in and danced at one point. Nathaniel came in for a hug. That was it really. They were annoying Heloise...but that's the way I needed it to be today :p

I loved being able to just cook and listen to my music. It was great and I was having a blast. Everything was going perfectly time wise. With just an hour left for the turkey, I popped the vegetables into the auger. Turned them a little while later and made the gravy.

Uncle Clifford and Aunt Jill arrived and commented on me slaving over the hot stove. Aunt Jill stirred the gravy while I took everything out of the oven and got it ready to put on the table. We called the boys in for dinner, and Heloise made a few different comments on how impressed she was that I did so well with timing. She said normally when they say dinner is at 6 it's not until much later...so the fact that I had everything ready and on the table by 6 was amazing. I'm not gonna lie, I felt pretty damn special. They all commented on how good it looked, and once they finished with their first helping, told me how delicious it was. The boys even gave me a hug and thanked me for dinner! It was great :D

We cleared the table and it was time for dessert. Because I couldn't find the right ingredients here to make a cheesecake, I decided I would save the pumpkin to make muffins later in the week. So Tim had picked up a chocolate sticky pudding, and Uncle Clifford and Aunt Jill brought an apricot something pie, carrot/orange cake and vanilla ice cream so there was a lot of choice! I ate entirely too much, but am still thinking about delicious cereal in the morning (Sorry mom), and a delicious cranberry, turkey, mayonnaise sandwich for dinner tomorrow night. MMMMMM.

Anyway after all of that, I took 10 minutes with Zach to help continue his list to Santa. You should see the size of this thing! *That's what she said!* :O Anyway, he's got about 40 different playmobil sets written down, and about 5 lego sets. Tomorrow our job is to narrow it down. (Like that's going to happen!) Have you tried explaining that to a 4 year old? We tried tonight...his answer was "Can you go to the next picture" (To see if he wanted the next toy on the website lol) What a cutie pie.

They went up to bed, Uncle Clifford and Aunt Jill came back downstairs after reading to the boys, and had a cup of coffee. Uncle Clifford and I were watching some music videos but as soon as Tim, Heloise and Aunt Jill got in the room it was mostly criticizing music and music videos lol. Especially George Michael's "Father Figure". Anyway, Uncle Clifford and Aunt Jill left, so Tim, Heloise and I watched Ghost Town. I think they both enjoyed it. Then we watched some soccer highlights. This is where I got angry. Sunderland's goal was absolutely ridiculous! It went in because it deflected off of a BEACH BALL!!! I was angry to begin with...then the commentators started going on and on about how Sunderland have completely turned around and are doing so well...IT BOUNCED OFF A BEACH BALL! HOW CAN YOU EVEN CALL THAT A WIN????? It should not have counted. Then one of Sunderland's players was saying it's Liverpool's fault. They should have moved the ball out of the way. UM HI! Don't you think the goalie had a few other things on his mind in the middle of a soccer game?? Anyway, as you can see...I'm still not over it. And this is why I came up to bed. ...Well, that and I'm crazy tired and have to be up in less than 8 hours :| Toni and I are going to watch the boys soccer game, and then are hopefully meeting with Ashley for coffee :D I hope everything goes according to plan!

On that note though, my sleeping time is getting shorter and shorter so I should go. Good Night xx