Project time!

Embarking on a bit of a project. I found this book that takes you through the whole house in a year in order to organize and get rid of stuff. The idea is that you do one thing a week. Some are smaller so you can maybe do two. Anyway, we started the other day and I thought, why not post progress so I have some kind of accountability :). So will be posting here and on my blog. Unless I fail to keep it up that is....

Warm feet

I didn't have any really warm winter boots. Some good hiking shoes, but not for cold. So I asked for electric socks for my birthday. Now I have warm feets :).

Arctic engine warmer

Never seen this particular method before, but I'm sure they know what they doing :).

Warm feet

Walking up to the restaurant for dinner. Good time to test the electric socks! 

Igloo!

Siegfried is ready to igloo it up y'all! Better picture in the morning....its only two pm but it's dark already :).

Siegfried is on the move!

Well, it has been awhile, but Siegfried is on the move! Mom and I are on our way to the glass igloos in Finland :).

Leftovers: check!

And of course, it's not Thanksgiving without leftovers :P. 

Clean up: ummm not check, please?

Well it goes without saying that 90% of any Thanksgiving dinner is actually the dishes. And some more dishes. Then even more dishes....and repeat....

Finished product

And time for dinner! Thanksgiving with all the fixings :). 

Catching up

There are going to be lots of seemingly random posts from the wrong time of year. I have been very bad at keeping up the blog but am going to catch up over the next couple weeks! So prepare to be bombarded! 

All the foods: check!

All the Thanksgiving foods looking pretty :). 

Dinner rolls: check!

Had to have proper dinner rolls. Which you can't just grab at the bakery here :(. So they had to be made from scratch. Which I've never done. Luckily Canadian Friend felt up to it and did a great job!!! Looked and tasted awesome :).

Real napkins: check!

Along with the fancy dishes, we also had a proper table cloth and cloth napkins. So, of course, I had to have those too :). 

Fancy dishes: check!

Growing up, Thanksgiving was always a bit special because we got to use the "fancy dishes". Mom's wedding china. And we had to be careful and it was pretty and just what we did on Thanksgiving . So I had to have fancy dishes for my Thanksgiving too! They are not wedding china because, well, not married yet. But still fancy! And totally can't go in dishwasher. So same diff right? :).

Pretty table: check!

You can't have Thanksgiving without a pretty table to sit at. Well. You can. But I didn't want to. It was my first Thanksgiving so I probably went a bit overboard but so what :). 

Cupcake turkies: check!

Canadian Friend made the cutest Thanksgiving cupcakes ever :).

Violate turkey more: check!

We never made turkey with the stuffing actually in the turkey. Mom explained now that she thought it got too moist when you stuffed it in there. Leading to stuffing with the consistency of wall paper paste. But Canadian Friend's family always stuffed the poor bird. So we compromised and she got to stuff it, but she was all on her own there. I had already done things to poor Rupert the night before that should have ended in cigarettes all around. Although Canadian Friend smokes so after she was done in guess there was a celebratory cigarette just anyway :).

Violate turkey: check!

When you make a turkey you get to dig around in there with your hand up it's butt to check for large chunks of ice and the inevitable "bag o' bits" that's oh so fun to pull out. Blek. Unlike my Southern brethren, however, we do not use this to make giblets gravy. We toss it. In the trash. Where it belongs. 

Stuffing: check!

We turned the bread crumbs into stuffing! 

Pumpkins pie: check!

You can't have Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie! And thanks to a box from Mom and a friend going to Canada we had all the ingredients! Including Dream Whip, a mix that makes an almost Cool Whip like substitute. Cause you can't have pumpkin pie without Cool Whip. Everyone knows that.