Bird's in the Oven!

It is finally here!  One of my favorite days of the year...Turkey Day (or as I like to call it..."Mashed Potato Day")!  Yesterday, after school, I headed to pick Freddy up at Camp Bow Wow where he was being treated to a spa day.  I didn't want him to be stinky around Thanksgiving guests, afterall.  We headed up to Bayonne, New Jersey straight away due to the snowy weather.  This year I am spending Thanksgiving at my oldest sister's house (I have two older sisters and a younger brother).

My sister left work early as well, and when she got to her house I had already done some dishes and cleaned up a bit so we would be ready to begin preparing food.  That is just what we did.  We got the cutting boards out, rearranged the refrigerator to make room for new dishes and laid some pots out on the stovetop.  We began browning sausage, peeling carrots and cutting celery.

 

As we cooked we went down my sister's carefully-thoughtout checklist.  We decided we should make homemade cranberry sauce this year and I decided we should get some ice cream to put on top of the pie for dessert.  With this in mind we headed to the grocery store.  When we got back I was so sleepy.  I went to bed pretty early.

When I woke up the turkey was already in the oven.  My sister had put it in at 6:20am!  As I lumbered down the stairs, my eyes barely open, I noticed she had also already set the table.  

Freddy and I went for our morning walk along the water (my sister's "backyard" is a marina).  We ran around, watched the ducks and checked out the tugboats.  What Freddy doesn't know is that we will be going to the dog park a little later so he can run his energy out before company comes.  As you can see, he perked up when he heard about this plan.  ;-)

What are you doing for Thanksgiving this year?  Are you planning to help get ready for dinner in any way?  Will you set the table, help make food or clean up?  I can't wait to hear about it!