What a weeks it was

Thanksgiving week was a long one here at our house. I had taken the whole week off because Ken was having shoulder surgery on Tuesday. Monday the kids go to Red Caboose so I had planned to get shopping done and get some things done around the house to get ready for the week. But instead, Zora woke up Monday morning with a horrible cough so we spent yet another morning at the doctor. I feel like I have been living at the doctor's office this fall. Tuesday Ken had his surgery which went well (even though when I talked to the surgeon after the surgery he said as soon as he got in there and saw it he "knew it was going to be a project"). He will be in a sling for 3 weeks which he is not happy about and he has been sleeping in a chair but hopefully in the long run it will be worth it. Fortunately my Mom came for Thanksgiving and to help out after Ken's surgery because by Thanksgiving day I was sick. So I was pretty much in bed all day and Ken was one armed and still in pain from his surgery. Thanks for coming for Thanksgiving Mom - would you mind fixing the whole dinner by yourself? Oh, and can you help with the kids while you're at it? So this Thanksgiving I was especially thankful for my Mom. Thanks Mom - I don't know what we would have done without you here! I did make it down for dinner but didn't each much - other than the pumpkin pie my Mom and Owen made totally from scratch. We got a pie pumpkin in our last CSA box and Owen has been waiting ever since to make a pumpkin pie with it. So they cooked the pumpkin, cranked it through the Foley food mill (which apparently Gram was going to throw out until my Mom said she would take it) and then made it into a pie.

I've never really been a huge fan of pumpkin pie but this one was delicious. So much better than one made from canned pumpkin. I still wasn't feeling great on friday but did rally on Saturday (my Mom's birthday) to make her a birthday dinner and a chocolate birthday cake (though she did have to take the cake out of the oven and run to the store to buy ice cream for the cake).