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The Bunch Celebrate Thanksgiving And Look Forward To The Christmas Holidays

 

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽️

Our Thanksgiving Day was wonderful! L and I had premade almost everything the day before so on Thanksgiving we had very little to prepare. It was mostly just cook everything.  We spent Thanksgiving doing everything we normally do on Thanksgiving. We got up and watched the parade. While the parade is on, we start warming everything to eat for lunch. After the parade is the dog show, which is the highlight of A's day. L doesn't care as much for the dog show, but enjoys making the gingerbread houses while we watch. This year she volunteered to assemble A's house since A can never do it. She just doesn't have the patience to hold it and wait for the walls to dry. A greatly enjoyed just getting to decorate the house this year without the headache of trying to assemble it. T gave up assembling gingerbread houses three years ago and now just decorates "gingerbread  house cookies", which basically means he lays each wall down flat, slaps some icing on top of each one, and then places whatever candy he likes on top. Thanks to shrinkflation, I had the hardest time getting my walls to stay up this year. I have no idea why the smaller the house the harder it is to assemble. T finally talked me into just turning mine into cookies too! 😂 I will admit though his cookie idea is way easier and far less time consuming, I definitely prefer to decorate the house. It's just fun. I guess I'll try again next year. Hopefully, next year is way better than this year and I'll have the patience to keep trying. Overall, it was really nice to have a day that just felt normal. 

I hope everyone else had a nice holiday. 

We're back to craziness next week with 5 games and some other more frustrating things we have to do.

T's gingerbread house cookies.

My cookies after I gave up all hope of the walls ever standing.

A's house turned out cute!

L always has the most elaborate house. She enjoys taking the time to design and decorate it more elaborately than the rest of us do and it shows.


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