The Steed Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was blissfully uneventful, just as I hoped it would be. I have been staying up much later than I should all this week (and failed to break the cycle last night), so I was looking forward to sleeping in until around 10:00 am yesterday morning; unfortunately, Nolan, our dwarf bunny, had different ideas. He was hungry and bored - a deadly combination, so he gnawed on a toilet paper tube for a few hours before I got up and fed him. By then, I was already awake, and got up at the ungodly hour of 9:30 am. :) I proceeded to clean the bunny's cage and the cats' litter box, and was about to toss the cats in the tub for a bath when David woke up, which was incredibly fortuitous. If you ever decide to give a cat a bath, never do it alone - you need someone to hold them captive in the tub while you scrub them down.

On Wednesday night, David and I made a new dessert to take to everyone - pumpkin cheesecake squares. They were delicious. Next time we'll let the cream cheese soften a little bit more - the idea was to swirl the pumpkin batter and the cream cheese batter with a knife, but the cream cheese ended up in big globs and some people ended up with A LOT more cream cheese than pumpkin. Oh well, everyone seemed to love them anyway.

We went to visit my parents before Davids' family's Thanksgiving. We arrived just as they were finishing the dishes from their feast - perfect timing, in my opinion. We looked through the holiday ads in search of Christmas present fodder, and then drove back up the canyon to enjoy our own feast. It was excellent. My mother-in-law cooked two turkeys, so we all ate very well. After dinner, David, his brother, and two cousins ran upstairs to engage in some post-Thanksgiving dinner zombie killing, and his adult relatives went to watch "Land of the Lost," which meant that my only viable option was to help my mother-in-law clean up, which I didn't mind. I never mind cleaning other people's houses - it's my own that makes me balk. The evening was spent watching for sightings of the mysterious creature that now lives in the backyard. Guesses as to its identity include flying squirrel, pack rat, sugar glider, and - my personal proposal - rat/squirrel hybrid.

All in all, it was a nice and relaxing day with lots of good food and family - just as Thanksgiving should be.