Thanksgiving 2014

Wow! It’s amazing how fast life just sails by, these past few months while Ron has been in San Diego especially. We are quickly approaching the start of our fifth month of single parenthood and some days it feels easy and some days I feel like I have been hit by a bus. We have good days and we have bad days but we are pushing through.

I’m always looking for new, cheap, and quick things to do with/for the kids to keep things exciting, browsing Pinterest the other night I found a recipe for pumpkin play-doh that needed only two ingredients, two cheap ingredients, so I swung by Winco and picked them up. Large cans of pumpkin puree and large cans of corn starch, I also dumped some cinnamon in for a little pumpkin pie smell. It took 1.5 cans of corn starch to one large can of pumpkin and however much cinnamon you’d like. All you do is mix the two together until they are play-doh consistency. Bam! Done, it was super easy and cost all of $3 to make. So I make 9 good size balls put them in ziplock bags and took them to Ronnie’s classroom the day before thanksgiving break as a little something fun for the kids to take home and have over the weekend. I would consider this one of the better days.

We went to my parent’s house for Thanksgiving this year and I was pretty much no help at all because I worked the night before but, I did cook the turkey! 20 delicious, juicy, pounds of bird! It was a good turkey if I do say so myself. It did help that it was free with my $150 grocery purchase earlier in the week. It was a good dinner and it was nice that my sister and brother-in-law were able to be there too.

Our tradition of looking at the black Friday ads after dinner was pretty uneventful this year. There just wasn’t anything that we really felt like we needed to head out to the store in the cold, wind, and rain for this year. In fact I was able to order the one thing that I wanted the night before while I was at work and I will be able to pick it up on Dec 2^nd. Bam! Done no long lines, no getting soaked, no dealing with grouchy grumpy people. Black Friday win for me.

After dinner we skated out super early to go home and go to bed. I was crazy exhausted and could hardly stay awake. I think we made it to 6pm before we went to bed and slept till the next morning. I consider it a good Thanksgiving! 

All the play-doh credit goes to Fun at home with the kids! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe.