We will be having our 2nd Thanksgiving of the year on Thursday. We had our Canadian one in October with our youngest DS, our DiL, our 2 little granddaughters and our DD. I cooked a 15 pound turkey and all the trimmings. DiL & DD looked after dessert. There was lots of everything left over that got packaged up and put in the freezer. There was enough for 4 dinners for DH and I when we are home at Christmas and or in March.
Now we are at our FL condo until near Christmas. DD arrived this afternoon on a flight from Toronto, as she did last year, for another turkey dinner, with our oldest DS (who moved to FL last year) and DiL who are driving over from the Tampa area on Wednesday for 2 days in St. Augustine. This time I only bought a 12 pound turkey and will not be cooking the stuffing inside of it to try to cut down the length of time our oven is on. The highest daytime temperature this week is to be Thursday of course! DH & DD think it's great that they get 2 Thanksgiving dinners now. Then there will also be one at Christmas but I'm off the hook on cooking that one thankfully.
A bit of a damper on this year's festivities as my MiL passed away last week at 93 years of age. She had been in hospital for a couple of weeks but seemed to be improving when we were out to see her just before we left for Florida at the end of October. We hoped we would see her when we went home for Christmas but Mum had other plans. We are all very thankful that we had 48 more years with her than we thought we were going to have. Mum had cancer in her sinuses that had started to spread to her brain and in July of 1976 she was given 6-8 months to live after chemo and radiation didn't seem to be doing anything. It just took a little longer to take effect and by early in 1978 she was officially in remission. She had a great long life and got to see 3 of her 4 kids get married, had 6 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. RIP Mum!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
~Diane