2008-11-27 Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with the Indianapolis Smillies (all of them), going up Wednesday after John got off of work. He and I were a bit startled to be greeted by a closely shorn "Boo" when we walked in the door. The little dog had had a run in with the groomer's shears, and came back, um, slightly denuded of fur.

We enjoyed a nice evening with everyone on Wednesday (and Sarah very graciously let John and me sleep in her bed that night), and on Thursday morning we all had a BIG breakfast. A yummy breakfast. With not too many left-overs. We missed the parade, though.

By the time breakfast was cleaned up it was time to get working on dinner. No surprise to anyone who knows me, I baked (at home while getting ready to go) and cooked along with them. I made a lemon meringue pie and resurected Grandma Jacobsen's cranberry walnut salad (which, unbeknownst to me, David had had a hinkling after, as the Smillies' say), and both turned out pretty well (although I need to get the recipe I used to use for crust from Mom. This crust didn't turn out too well). Then we were all off to share and spend the afternoon and evening with a few families in the area.

We came back to the Smillies' house to wind down, and after John had a nap we drove home to Cincinnati so that I could be at Baby's dr. appointment early Friday morning.

All in all, a memorable "first" Thanksgiving.