This year we hosted Thanksgiving at our house. My parents came from the Cape and we also hosted Allison’s friend Colleen and her mother. Allison and Colleen prepared a ton of food last night and got ready for everything today. Allison made sure that she made many recipes that were gluten free so that my Mom could eat them including a gluten free green bean casserole. Colleen’s mom brought over a pumpkin bread that we can eat tomorrow morning. We had apple pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cake and chocolate chip cookie pie. So much food.
After dinner and everyone headed home we got changed into our Christmas pajamas. This is a yearly tradition. This was the first year that the pajamas fit well for sleeping. As we lounged in the new pajamas we enjoyed watching the movie 8-Bit Christmas. This was a hilarious movie about one kids’ quest to get a Nintendo Entertainment System. It starred Neil Patrick Harris and Steve Zahn. I really enjoyed it and we laughed a lot during the movie. Although, the movie was set in 1988 and that was a bit late in the NES and Cabbage Patch craze. Seeing as this was something I lived through and it was so close to my own personal Christmases of years past I remember the dates very clearly. Christmas 1984 was all about Transformers and Cabbage Patch Kids. My grandparents scoured the Eastern Seaboard for them. Christmas 1985 was the year of Nintendo and more Cabbage Patch kids. 1988 was way late in the NES game. That aside, it was a very fun movie.
We took a quick run to Cape Cod today. We won’t be heading down to the Cape for Thanksgiving because of Boot Camp for Krav. I have to be back on that Friday so it made no sense for us to run down to run back when we couldn’t really enjoy the day after Thanksgiving. I know this puts a damper on some of our traditions like the kids helping Mem and Grandfather trim their Christmas tree. But, we’re going to have them come to our house for Thanksgiving instead. We’ll spend more time down there for Christmas instead.
Before we headed down we had a nice lunch at Bliss Dairy. Andy had us play Mad Libs while we waited and it was quite funny to say the least. I tried something new there, the Ultimate Grilled Cheese burger. It was a burger between two grilled cheese sandwiches. Not something I’d normally get but it was really, really good.
One of the reasons we went down was to see my Grandfather. We did not get to see him today but will see him tomorrow.
Another reason we went down was to visit and to help my Dad set up his new computer. His old one was acting up and not working properly so I took a look at it and also set up the new one. I was able to get the old one to work but it is running very slowly. I don’t know if I can reclaim it at all but I will try. The problem with that one is that the keyboard is not working properly at all and I have no idea to fix that. It was time for a new one.
We had a nice pizza dinner with pizza from Supreme (GF) and Paul’s. I do love Paul’s pizza. We then watched Wish Dragon on Netflix and while it had the feel of Aladdin it was it’s own movie and was really good. Andy especially liked it.
