Five Question Friday... Better Late Than Never

1. What is your favorite part of a Thanksgiving meal?

Food wise, I'd have to say my freaking awesome sweet potato casserole.

But in general, it was seeing Ally Kate enjoy the meal like a big girl. This was her last first holiday, so it was bitter sweet. She loved all of her food. But her favorite was the same as mine. What can I say? I make a mean sweet potato casserole.

2. Are you a host or a guest for Thanksgiving this year?

Host.

We had planned on having 18 people over - me, hubby, Ally Kate, my mom, my dad, my brother, my SIL, niece, nephew, my other brother, my other niece, my MIL, my FIL, my SIL, her boyfriend, other niece, and other 2 nephews.

It turns out that Ally Kate woke up that morning at 3;30 am gasping for air. Scared the bajeebus outta Mommy and Daddy, let me tell you! We were at the children's hospital within 10 minutes. But what do you know? They are CLOSED! She was actually better by the time we got there, so we decided to come home and see if we could get her to drink some fluids before we decided to go to the ER. Hubby got smart and Googled "wheezing in infants." What do you know? Croup is the first thing that comes up. It sounded exactly like what she had. So, we followed their guidelines of a steamy shower and humidifier and got her back to sleep.

When we informed our families later that day, my one brother, SIL and other SIL decided not to expose their kids to it. So, it ended up only being 9 people. It was definitely more relaxing that way, but I felt awfully bad about it :-/.

3. When you think of one Thanksgiving tradition, what comes to mind?

My Daddy's dressing lol. My granny used to make it for our Thanksgiving get togethers. Then when she got too sick, my aunt started making it. Then when Granny died, we stopped getting together for Thanksgiving, so my Daddy makes it now. It's freaking delicious! This year, he made a pan for our get together, a pan for my brother, and a pan for me!! I was so excited.

4. You have two pieces of pie in front of you and you HAVE to eat one...do you choose pumpkin or pecan?

Ick. Give me apple, please. I never even liked sweet potatoes until very recently when I was forced to eat them because they came in our farmers market basket haha.

5. Are you a Black Friday Shopper?

Not a part of the morning crowd. No way. We tried that one year and I will probably never do it again. That was nuts. All to save a few bucks. I'd rather spend the extra money to be shopping with the "normal people" ;-). And stay nice and toasty in my bed.

BUT we did venture to Costco last night and it was almost bare in there. Guess all the crazies were at home in bed haha. We did get a Magic Bullet for $32. Woo! I'm excited, but too lazy to wash it :-/.

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I'm hoping to get back into the hang of this blogging thing since I'm not consumed in lesson plans anymore. I don't think I ever mentioned it on here, but I started student teaching in August. I'm with a 3rd grade class at a school VERY close to my house. I absolutely love the kids, but am SO glad I don't have to write lesson plans anymore. I kid you not when I say I turned in 40 pages of lesson plans for ONE WEEK! College requirements are a bit ridiculous, don't you think?
Anyways, I have 8 more days with my little rats and then I get to go back to being a SAHM / craft-a-holic!