November 28, 2024-Happy Thanksgiving 2024

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• I was vacuuming this morning before anyone else was out of their beds. The house was fairly straight, but there were a few things left to be done. Plus the rolls had to come out of the fridge pretty early-I kept them in the fridge over night so I didn't have to wake up at 6 to let them start rising.
• I did make my sausage cornbread and pull out the hashbrown casserole to bake. I noticed some smoke coming out of the oven as it was preheating, but I did what anyone would do-I ignored it hoping it would go away. 
• It did not; the smoke alarms started chirping throughout the house. Robby eventually tried to scrap the bottom of the oven to clean whatever was down there. (Here's the thing, I don't know what caused it-possibly the cheesecake but it didn't leak that I know of.
• After Robby did his work on the oven, plus a fan and a window and door open, the smoke left fairly quickly-or at least no one today said, "it's smoky in here." The food was soon ready, and then we put the rolls in. 
• Meanwhile, the kids were making their fruit turkeys-I'll admit, they have just about aged out of this tradition. The girls still seem to enjoy doing it, I think, but the boys could care less. I did get our customary turkey picture with them so that is really all that matters. Also, I did think that it was interesting that the girls choose to use all fruit while the boys concentrated on meat and cheese.
• Soon everyone arrived-Jason, Grannymom and Grandpa, Nonna and Pops and all of the cousins. It was a full house with around 23 people. My kitchen is large, but it is tight with that many people eating. 
• We had tons of food, but we had even more desserts. Graham was disappointed in his cheesecake-the crust was a little over done, but otherwise it was still pretty good. We have both eaten some this evening so it must not be that bad. 
• Everyone stayed a visited for a good while. When the house was empty, I picked up a few things and soon things were all back to normal-I still have to empty the trash and move the table back, but I was stalling on those chores.