Happy Thanksgiving

proud of myself, arranging

our Thanksgiving dinner

by myself, and that lovely

flower's from my mom in-law

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holiday since I live in America, I told you yesterday that today on Thanksgiving Day, it's the 1st time that we didn't go outside town, fight the traffic to eat a 'turkey'..well to be exact a piece of turkey...ha..ha..it's because my hubby's health issue.

I'm working until Wednesday night, making 'cranberry fruit salad' then continued Thursday morning, made pumpkin pie while returning call to my friend in Kentucky, then making stuffing, which I made it with dried cranberry, ...(cranberry agaaaain!!..), and mya old day whole wheat bread, then this was the favorite part, I made 'candid yam' for the 1st time, usually I just enjoyed the yam made by my mother in-law. It's a bit tiring, but it's such a pleasure to me, to keep the tradition going especially for my daugther, Grace.

By the way, my turkey was store bought, roasted by Safeway, the supermarket in the neigborhood,..which surprisingly it's yuum!...and it's only about a quarter of a whole turkey, so I won't have to many leftover.

Thanks to my mom in-law who stopped by, and brought some of her famous 'devil's egg' and two slices of her home-made pumpkin pie....sooo delicious!...Happy Thanksgiving Day, everyone..:)

Grace spells the 'thanksgiving day'..:)

Thanksgiving Prep

This gonna be the 1st time of Thanksgiving celebration where we're not going to our big family outside town, we're just gonna stay at home, avoid the big traffic, rain, wind. So, today I did some do-ahead meal like 'Cranberry Fruit Salad'..while taking care of my daughter, and thanks to kids program that today on PBS there's 'Curious George' the movie, which on and on so that my three year-old stay still enjoyed it. I plan to make thanksgiving dinner but in mini version, I already have cooked turkey, so am gonna make hearthy pumpkin pie, stuffing and sweet potato, I decided not to make mashed potato, which is usualy is kinda meal that always on the table during Thanksgiving.

Pile of maple leaves still growing outside our place, the storm that we had recently, made it hard for the blower guy (my daughter and I called them 'blower guy' to those guys who take care of our apartment complex) to clean those up, beside they might wait until the weather at least calm down to rid off all those leaves.

Grace took a pic of me

after the storm.

Grace with grandma

before their playdate.

First Pigtails

This is the 1st time, Grace was okay when I made two ponytail ha..ha...but only a couple of minutes, then she asked me to take off those hair accessories....