thanksgivng Week 2

We had a good thanksgiving for the most part, I hope everyone else did too.
We had thanksgiving dinner here a few days ahead of the real day. I just wanted to have a nice quiet, unhurried dinner with the four of us. So we did. IT was great. Food was excellent even if I have to blow my own horn! LOL We had a great time together, Bridey and John helped cook then we all sat around the table and told what we were thankful for. Then it was getting ready for the big day. We spent most of the day Wednesday at mom's getting ready for Thursday. Then first thing Thursday morning we went out to mom's and started cooking. Well We got it almost done, and My aunt come over and started having a fit about how I was ruining Thanksgiving dinner because I don't cook the same way mom does. Though she knows that it is to much on Mom to make the entire dinner now and she can't do the clean up 0r anything but did My aunt offer to help of cook????? Well NO she did not. The only thing she offered was criticism. Now my mom is a good cook, when she can do it, she is an old school cook....well she is 70 some years old, she doesn't use spices or try new things to spice things up. I on the other hand LOVE spices and I watch food network A LOT to get new ideas, so I was using some of them that i have used at our meals for years and they are pretty good If I do say so myself. My aunt had a hissy that I wasn't doing the meal like mom. Nobody else had a problem and really liked the meal. I was so mad! Then we were suppose to go out to John's family for dinner that evening but John didn't want to go. I later found out that he had gotten into it with his dad and brother earlier in the week while he was out there hunting. They seem to always criticism him for everything and he use to take it and not say anything and then for a while he stopped going out there and then this last time he finally told them to dock it off and that was why we didn't go out there very often was that they wouldn't get off his back. So now he isn't even wanting to out for Christmas....not sure what we will do.
Bridey's play was great too! Really cute!