November 27, 2025-Happy Thanksgiving 2025

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• When we went to bed last night, I had my minute by minute list of everything that I needed to accomplish this morning. Campbell also had her minute by minute list of when she needed to do things to bake her sourdough turkeys.
• My first task was to turn on the oven for Campbell. After that, she went right to work on her bread. Well, she actually started working on them early yesterday. She did make the cutest bread turkeys-I just wished that I had pretty things to put around them to make them look like turkey or a good dip to eat them with. I'll plan better next year though.
• After the oven, I had to deal with the laundry-we washed two loads last night. I'm sure thankful that my people are all home, but why does everyone have to wear so many clothes on the same day? Once the laundry was folded, I delivered it and woke everyone else up. 
• Robby went outside to work in the yard for 45 minutes-3 hours later he came in. He said that it was hard to find a stopping point. Since we had already made our desserts yesterday, all I had to do was cook the hashbrown casserole, make the mac and cheese, and cut the fruit.
• The kids all did their traditional fruit turkeys-some with better attitudes than others. Anderson even suggested ending the fruit turkey making tradition but I told him that is one of our only Thanksgiving traditions so we must keep it. 
• Soon everyone started arriving-Jason, Nonna, Pops, Lily, Cash, Dana, and Grannymom. Everyone also came bearing food so we had a cabinet full, and even after eating we barely made a dent in what all we had. 
• Everyone stayed and visited after we ate plus we took some family pictures. We even took a few pictures of just the kids which is always a bit stressful-more stressful than it ought to be. 
• Ethan came over for a little bit this evening, and Reagan had another friend coming to spend a few nights later. While he was here, everyone ate some plus Graham, Campbell, Whitman, and I played Code Names. Reagan joined us later, and our game lasted over an hour.
• Now, the Hog game is off, and we are just sitting on the couch for the last little bit of this Thanksgiving day.