We had a lovely Thanksgiving. The turkey was ready on time for the first time ever. I relinquished control and asked everyone for help and they obliged and — shock of shocks — things were a lot less stressful than they have been in the past.
We have played games and watched movies and taken walks around the neighborhood and put a good dent in the leftovers. I have spent a nice chunk of the day reading on the couch.
My parents have said their until-we-meet-agains, and we are all trying not to feel too tearful at their leaving. Now, my husband and Carla and I have the rest of the weekend to retreat to our silent corners and do the copious laundry that has piled up during the week.
I almost missed posting today, but I have made it just in the nick of time. If you celebrated Thanksgiving, I hope it was low-stress and lovely; if you didn’t participate, I hope your week ended on a high note.
Happy weekend, Internet friends.
It seems as though I am doing NaBloPoMo this month, which is 30 blog posts in 30 days. (Will I make it??? Only time will tell.) Details at San’s blog here.
Glad it was a success.
I have the exact same mini recap: it was the perfect day and all that we have to do the rest of the weekend is to chill. Life is good!
Congratulations on getting this post up- NaBloPoMo is still going strong! I’m glad your Thanksgiving was low-stress. Ours was also really nice, and I’m feeling melancholy that it’s over. My son goes back to school soon… but he’ll be back in three weeks for Christmas. On to the next holiday!
My week did end up on a high note! So thank you 🙂 Glad your Thanksgiving was a success and I hope you can relax this weekend.
How nice that asking for help turned out just the way it should! And some quiet time after family time is always so good.
Low stress and lovely over here, too. Glad to hear you had a good day. I would love a quiet corner in the middle of my current adventure LOL.
I’m so glad you asked for help, received it and then saw how much stress it took off your shoulders.
Then end is in sight, Suzanne – you are going to complete NaBloPoMo!
Yay! I’m glad that someone else helping didn’t turn into a major fiasco!
I had a really great week with an unexpected day off, and today I had to take my mom to a medical appointment at the butt-crack of dawn, but then rewarded myself with reading and a nap and then watched a really great movie with my husband so thank you, it did. And I’m glad your holiday went well. Our thanksgiving turkey was actually late for the first time ever (back in October) but things still turned out okay.
This sounds all-around lovely. I am glad you had such a nice Thanksgiving with your family 🙂
That sounds like such a wonderful Thanksgiving – I’m glad it wasn’t too stressful and it was a lovely day with family. And I hope the weekend off was relaxing!
This sounds wonderful, actually. Lower stress, help that was actually, you know, *helpful*, etc. I have never hosted a big event and never plan to, so I admire those of you who can (and do)!!!
It was my fear that I don’t get the turkey ready on time when we hosted our first Friendsgiving ever this year but I guess it was beginners luck.
Hope you enjoyed the rest of the thanksgiving week and some relaxing.