For our first Thanksgiving with Jasmine we wanted to spend it all to ourselves. We started off the day with a breakfast of french toast and watching the Macy’s parade.
Emily and I realized we never actually sat down and watched the whole parade. Well, the first hour was just promos for various network and Broadway shows. Jasmine enjoyed the dance numbers. The second hour the parade started to show up, but again with lots of promos. And the third hour we were ready to turn it off, but we were determined to make it to the end. The announcer encouraged us by saying the end of the parade with Santa’s sled would be right up after this commercial break. And throughout the third hour, the announcer kept saying that over and over, and we apparently fell for it, since we kept watching until the very end. Ok, even though I’m complaining it still was fun, especially seeing all the festive costumes and giant balloons.
Next up was the movie Monsters vs. Aliens, which we’ve been looking forward too. About a quarter of the way into the movie we were getting hungry. So Emily began cooking our Thanksgiving meal of mash potatoes, stuffing, green beans, chicken piccata and tofu-veggie casserole. Yes, the astute reader will note the absence of turkey. I’m really into chicken piccata right now so I bucked tradition. The meal was amazing and I had fourths. I loved how festive Emily made the table with beautiful place settings, pumpkins and candles.
After the meal, we finished up Monsters vs. Aliens which was very good and had many funny parts. And we pretty much hibernated the afternoon away on the couch watching Happy Feet on TV and watching Jasmine sing and dance. Emily made oatmeal cookies and a vegetable platter for our dinner, since we were all still stuffed from lunch.
Mom gave Jasmine a bath and got her tucked into bed. Then she read us the next two chapters of “Midnight on the Moon” from the tree house adventure series. I sat on Jasmine’s bed watching her until she fell asleep, just enjoying the moment.
