Happy Thanksgiving

I can't believe it's been a month since my last blog post.  My, oh, my... where does the time go.

I hope all of you are having a fabulous turkey day!  Jake and I recently evaluated what made sense as far as traveling to see our families meant and decided that it made a lot more sense to travel for Christmas this year than it did to travel for the short Thanksgiving holiday.  Hopefully we can rotate every year since Thanksgiving is the big holiday for Jake's family and Christmas is the big holiday for my family.  So... that being said, Jake and I had a nice quiet Thanksgiving here at home.  I made a fantastic meal to which Jake said sarcastically "Do you think you made enough?".

I was pleasantly surprised that my roast chicken, stuffing, green bean casserole, sweet potato latkes, cranberry sauce, and rolls all turned out great!  Usually I end up messing up at least one or two little things... maybe I'll overcook or undercook something or a new recipe (like the roasted chicken or latkes) just won't turn out right.  In the middle of dinner I turned to Jake and said "Wow.  Everything turned out so good!" to which he replied, "Yes it did.  I love you."  Ahhh.... so the saying must be true.  The quickest way to a man's heart IS through his stomach. 

So now we sit, letting our stomachs digest our feast... I'm blogging.  Jake's playing video games.  Soon we get dessert, though, homemade pumpkin cheesecake!  The cheesecake turned out pretty great this year too.  We had a Thanksgiving potluck at work last Friday which was awesome!  There was a huge turkey and ham and a variety of stuffing, potatoes, vegetables, and desserts.  I made 1 1/3 recipes of my cheesecake this year, leaving the mini one at home for Jake and I for today.  The whole one I took into work for our potluck.  It competed against 3 pumpkin pies, 1 apple pie, 1 french silk pie, 1 pound cake, and pumpkin bread for 40-50 people.  My dessert was the only one that disappeared completely.  The rest had a slice or 2 gone, but my plate was clean!  I'm so glad I made the extra to keep for Jake and I.

Anyway...
I suppose the reason many of you visit my blog is because of my health, so I suppose I should touch briefly on that instead of going on and on about all this food!  Well, things are going well.  I can't believe that almost a year ago I couldn't hardly even eat anything let alone taste it and appreciate it.  I'm just so thankful this year to be relatively healthy again!

I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving!  May you all take this time of year to reflect on all the things in your life for which you are thankful too.  :)