Happy Thanksgiving!
After serving breakfast this morning I got started on making pies, because that is what Granny wanted us to bring to her house tonight. I started with an apple pie with a crumble topping, then I moved on to a pumpkin cheesecake, finally I made a pecan pie. Of course I didn’t make them one at a time, I had parts of them going simultaneously, all while working on cleaning up in the kitchen and dealing with kids constantly underfoot and all the other craziness that a family of this size brings. Somewhere along the course of the morning I forgot to add the eggs to the pecan pie, so when it came out of the oven it was just candied pecans in a crust. Needless to say, that pie did not go to Granny’s. I also made some rolls.
I decided that we should get out the box that Grandpa had sent before going to Granny’s since I knew we would probably be at Granny’s house until late. The kids were all interested in what was in the box, and I think a couple of them figured it out right before I opened it up. 😉 Grandpa sent See’s chocolate turkeys!
We went to Granny’s in the early afternoon. We got there before cousins did, and some of the kids watched the Macy’s thanksgiving parade on the TV, since that’s what Granny had been watching when we arrived. When cousins arrived, they heated up their bowl of mashed potatoes in the microwave, and Granny pulled out the turkey, which ended up not being done. She had no idea why it wasn’t done, and she was very upset about it. We decided to pick off what meat looked done and put the bird back in the oven. After dinner though the evening went downhill fast. Lydia got into Granny’s makeup. She didn’t use the lipstick to color on the walls or counter or anything like that, but she had it all over her face. It also looked like she had the lipsticks kiss, because some of them had some of the other colors on them like they had been touched together. Adam and Lydia both got into a bunch of pills that Granny had sitting on the counter. I don’t really like going over there because this stuff is always out where the kids can get to it, and pills in the reach of the kids is just NOT SAFE. I don’t like feeling like my kids aren’t safe because we are at Granny’s house. Then later Granny started insisting that she smelled nail polish and immediately blaming Lydia for it. I went to look for Lydia and found her playing quietly in the toy room for once, which seemed to be missing a LOT of toys. There used to be lots of toys in there, and I have no idea where they went, but I suspect that the lack of toys is the reason that the little ones were getting into all kinds of other things.
At one point during the evening we heard reports of Dinah whacking people with the fluff from her coat, and there were other reports of kids being mean to each other as well.
Eventually we gave up on hoping that the kids would stay out of trouble and therefore out of danger and so we had to just leave. I felt like with the amount of trouble they had gotten into, we had stayed WAY too long.