Manic Turkey Week

Hey all you readers! We have the whole week off school here, and so our celebrating is beginning.....TO-DAY! Yay! Our plans include decorating the house for Christmas and making some kind of fun holiday crafts. So I hope that next week I'll have some really fun things to show you. (lately, it seems like we've been kind of sparse around here...right?)

This week, however, we'll focus on a few Turkey Day ideas.

And now....I'm gonna get a few things off my chest. (my rather large "chest" but that's a whole 'nother story)

Okay....
I'm just gonna say it.....

i don't like thanksgiving.

I know!  You'd think, as a gal who is IN LOVE with holidays and tradition....that I'd love this holiday as well.  And it's just not the case.  I'm sorry!

I appreciate the fact that this admittal may have just completely severed our relationship. Heaven knows it's been a test to my marriage more than once.

Most people think this is just a sin. And I'm fine with that. But I just don't like it. Okay?

It's not that I'm ungrateful either.  I'd love to sit and talk about being grateful and how many blessings I have.

Over a steak. 

I just don't like the food that much. I think thinly sliced deli turkey on a sandwich is yummy, but I don't love a piece of, usually, dry meat that just gets stuck under my teeth and makes my gums hurt.
I really don't like stuffing (or dressing....whatever you like to call it)
Pumpkin pie? Nope.
Mashed potatoes are good. (And that's usually what I end up eating.) But they're not good enough to base my whole day around.

I also really don't like being gathered with people I don't know that well. Mostly gigantic family Thanksgivings where I had to eat on church tables shoved into someone's living room. And have Uncles tell me that they couldn't believe that I was 13.  (when I was 17 and almost ready to graduate)

I really don't like football unless it's a local team that I have a vested interest in.  I love Basketball, but for some reason boys are just rude to girls when they watch sports.  And I don't like that.

Also, for some weird reason, I get wildly peeved when people take naps.

I've mentioned that I adore the colors: brown, yellow and orange. But NOT together.

Thanksgiving, just seems like a detraction from the joy that is Christmas and all it's wonderment.

There.

I feel better.

For those of you who will still be willing to be my friends. Thank you.



The second thing I gotta get off my chest is less earth shattering:

It's that I just cannot get as prepared as the rest of the blogging world.

Everyone has posted all their Thanksgiving ideas (in October) and have moved on to Christmas.

I wish I was that prepared. I wish.

I can barely get prepared to go to the bathroom in time to preserve dry pants. Let alone do craftiness months in advance.

That's just how I roll.

So....as I did with Halloween. I'm gonna post some last minute Thanksgiving ideas this week. And they truly are "last minute" and you can do them "last minute"....how do I know? Because I'm actually doing them THIS WEEK. Not made last month and posted with a "last minute" tag. I'm ACTUALLY doing them now. So I KNOW you can too.

Stay tuned for the rest of the week....and I'll show you a couple last minute things to make Thanksgiving more fun. (even if you don't think it's that fun to begin with....and then we are truly BFF's forever)

{ Wanna know the greatest and most awesome Thanksgiving I ever had?  The year I graduated from college...my Mom took our family to Disney World.  We did EPCOT in the morning....and Tony Romas ribs and onion loaf for Thanksgiving dinner.  Now THAT was some amazing holiday spirit!  I GIVE THANKS for that stellar memory.  Best Thanksgiving......EVER.  Mickey, EPCOT, NO turkey, no weird Uncles, ribs...and Onion Loaf gas.  AH-MAZ-ING!! }

And now, to end this post of Turkey truth....

I will announce the winner of the SONSHINE DESIGNS giveaway.

And the winner is......

Brooke

"That black and white polka dot apron is calling my name. Love it."

Congratulations Brooke!  I will get your e-mail address to Angie, and she can get in touch with you!

Don't forget Sonshine Designs for great gifts this holiday season.  A gift for your kids, or someone you love.  Or, heck....get a gift for yourself.   YOU DESERVE IT!

I'm off to clean up my basement. It's a requirement to clean up the Halloween pile....BEFORE I get out a Christmas one. (sometimes I'm WAAAY too honest about life around here.)