I'm only posting today because

writing makes me feel better.  I'm in quite a bad mood otherwise, but still need to carry on with the day, you know?

I am sort of proud of myself lately for a few things anyway. 

1.  I'm glad that I put the garden to bed properly this year.  In the past, I was lazy and then it was too late/too cold, etc.  I got them weeded and mulched.  I planted the garlic.  And I already have my plan set up for seed ordering in late winter and what I'm planting where in the spring. 

2.  I'm glad that I've done enough Thanksgiving meals before that it doesn't stress me out anymore.  Although, every time I go to buy all of the food, I feel like I am playing house. It doesn't seem like I should be old enough to be doing a Thanksgiving meal, but yet, here I am. 

3.  I am glad that we are caught up on our bills.  Money can be so stressful, and I am approaching the end of my latest contract and I have nothing yet lined up for December, and that is REALLY stressing me out, but if we were behind on bills, that would be even worse.  We have enough in reserves that we can probably make it through December too, so it buys a little time. 

Well, not much on my plate besides work today.  I slept in today because of that bad mood, but I'm up now and as soon as I'm done writing this post, I'll start in on my "real" work.  Jelly Bean needs to go to swim team practice, and I need to make a schedule for cooking for tomorrow.  I don't want to leave all the cooking for Thursday.  I'll probably do the potatoes and a couple of the pies tomorrow. 

Oh, I gotta have these at Thanksgiving this year

Picture from Simple Bites

Over at Simple Bites today, they have a recipe for Dinner Rolls in a Jar.

The recipe sounds simple enough, and I've got jelly jars that have been emptied of their peach and strawberry jam-ness. (We still have a few jars of peach and strawberry jam but next year, I'm doing more. It appears that I need at least 24 jars of each to get us through the year.)

And they are just so cute! Not that I'm usually into "cute" food, but I love these!

Pictures from Thanksgiving

Super making his world famous cranberry bread

The kids made sock puppets and then put on a show over the couch.

At Cousin J and E's house - J said "This is what happens when you go to someone's house that doesn't have kids - they dress them up in crazy stuff they have at the house!"

Warm and Toasty!

The feast before we started digging in

The boys

Great Uncle Don and Cousin Scott and Super. My mom and my grandma both had "high" chairs like that. My mom would always use hers to do the ironing.

Cousin J, Jelly Bean, Super and Grandma S digging into the desserts. Super is getting some of the yummy pumpkin bars. The cranberry bread and the cookies are there, and there was also pumpkin pie, apple pie and french silk pie. It was all VERY good.

Great Aunt Nancy, Super and Jelly Bean eating their desserts

Flower getting herself some pie.

I can't get over how grown up she is getting lately.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.

Hope that you had a wonderful day!