So Thanksgiving actually went smashingly. I had a bit of trouble with the pie crust, but besides that, no problems. Oh, and I nearly dropped the lasagna onto the carpet. But I saved it! And it was pretty tasty. Thankfully, we ate nearly half of it at dinner and my neighbor took at least half of that, so we only had leftovers for one day.

Hey, anyone have any helpful pie crust hints?

I did dressing, too. Honestly, it was a big soggy mess, but it tasted great. It's funny; I was looking at my bag of stuffing cubes and at my pot of broth and seriously wondered if I had enough of the broth so I poured the whole pot over the cubes.

I think we'll have the ready-made turkey dinner from Zippy's next year. Man, entertaining is a lot of work. I had never cooked for anyone outside my immediate family before. I cook nearly every night but it's just for mom and Ryan and the kids, and they never complain. It's hard to know if you're a good cook when you feed just your family. So I was nervous. But I think my neighbors appreciated the company above anything else. My dad was gone a lot when I was a kid. He missed Thanksgiving more often than not and was even gone during several Christmases and I know my mom could have used a nice dinner at someone's house, if only to talk to an adult for a few minutes.

Ryan's dad had his Thanksgiving last night. They had a turkey (which kicked butt), stuffing, this fabulous salad with about five hundred kinds of greens (thanks to which, I am now a beet convert), and tempura galore. And the pies. It turns out that Zac is a stuffing fiend. While Dad and Gayle were carving the turkey, they were feeding him spoonfuls of the stuffing they were digging out from under the skin and he was unstoppable.

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I'm finding that this time of the year is making me uneasy. I'm pretty sure Alex was conceived on Thanksgiving day last year. The looming Christmas and New Year's holidays are starting to remind me of last year, when there was so much fear and uncertainty. I know I'll get tons of hate mail for this, but I have to admit; there were a few days when we weren't sure what was going to happen. And it hurts to remember that.

Hey, anyone have any helpful pie crust hints?

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