Here's the quick and dirty on my Thanksgiving extendo-weekend. Wednesday, the kids were off school. I had to arrange daycare for them at $20 per kid. Originally when the divorce was final, I had thought that since I got custody of the kids, I could count on Shellie wanting to spend as much time with them as possible, so I *cringe* assumed that she would keep them all day and do something with them if they were off school, and it was her regular day (i.e. Tuesday or Wednesday). Man, am I a dumb@ss for assuming THAT. Her basic answer was "No, I need my sleep." So...
They went to Thomas Jefferson Middle School again, with the YMCA before/after school program. The rate was $20 per child. Brutal, but I had no choice. Well, they had fun anyway, and at least they didn't sit inside in front of a TV all day, so I don't feel too bad about that.
Every time I call when they are with their mother and ask "What are you doing?" (cheerfully) They always reply "Watching TV..." That was Wednesday.
Thursday I got up at 4am and put the turkey on. I was spazzing out about it because it still seemed frozen when I stuck my hand in to get the package of guts and the neck. But it was only just some left-over ice from inside and all the meat was ok. You could tell by pressing on
it and feeling that it was loose and thawed. Just to make sure, I put it in cold water for an hour. All Thursday from 5am until 1pm I was cooking and finishing up cleaning. The kids were a great help tidying up. They really saved me...except for their ROOM!
I didn't get the giblet gravy done, so I added garlic to the potatoes and called them garlic smashed potatoes. I used an oven bag on the turkey and it didn't look browned so I took off the bag and put it under the broiler for a little too long and burned it. Just surface...all the meat was fine and tasted really good. Everybody said so. My $5 electric knife I bought four months ago at Goodwill was awesome for the bread and of course the turkey too! I made sour dough and country white breads using the bread maker. I think mom would have been proud of me. The casserole, the stuffing, bread, corn spoon bread, turkey--all of it was really ok. Nobody left hungry. After everyone left, I was exhausted. Patti helped me put stuff away except the turkey (because it was in the roaster pan). I just left the turkey out for a little bit and rested. I was really exhausted. We ate left-over's for supper. After that, I de-boned the turkey. The fridge was so full you could not see the lights in the top.
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