thanksgiving

My family usually just has a small Thanksgiving celebration, with just my mom, dad, sister, grandma, and me.

A few years ago we decided to buy some of our Thanksgiving dinner from Whole Foods, and it was amazing. They have the whole meal prepared for you, it’s just heat and serve. We will make some extra sides, just to make the meal more complete.

We usually have ham (no one in my house eats turkey, and I’m a vegetarian), stuffing, mashed potatoes, salad with homemade salad dressing, mac and cheese, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls, strawberry jello stuff, and pies. This year we are going with pumpkin and pecan.

We will try to cook a few things the day before, just so we are not so busy on Thanksgiving. So we spend most of the day Wednesday and Thursday cooking, while watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. We will eat around 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. We will usually clean up and wash some dishes before eating pie. We will usually go back for our favorite things later on that night, which are stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pie for me (healthy right?)

Now, you know you cannot ask me about Thanksgiving without expecting me to mention Black Friday.

We have finalized the list of stores we are going to, but we are still iffy on what time we will wake up this year. If we wake up at midnight, we can’t go to the stores that don’t open until 5, and our last store opens at 8 a.m. My sister still wants to wake up at midnight, so we’ll see.

Needless to say, I can’t wait for Thanksgiving! (and Black Friday)