This is year J had his very first Mexican Thanksgiving! Yay yeahhhh. Anddddd...he very much enjoyed it. Both of us have been doing a low carb diet and so you can bet we have been waiting for Thanksgiving! I haven't been home for Thanksgiving in 5 years so I was especially excited for my mom's cooking. Seriously, I think she makes the best stuffing on E A R T H. J and I brought the desserts{pumpkin pie & jello pretzel salad}. We brought the pumpkin pie to make things more 'traditional' bc I don't we have ever had that at Thanksgiving. We have claimed the jello pretzel salad we as our own Thanksgiving tradition. We had fun making it together...and forgetting to add the strawberries. Woops. oh and my little siblings didn't even TRY our salad. They didn't take a second look. "Hey you guys wanna try our dessert we made?" No ANSWER.
{My snowman I made in my 6th grade home ec class. I wanted to throw it out, it was all nasty. But my mother convinced me not to}.
The next day we decorated the CHRISTMAS TREE. It was my lucky day that I got to decorate ANOTHER tree. Yessss. It was way fun looking at all the decorations we made growing up and looking at ornaments that my middle/high school friends had given me. Also, my mom gave me a box of all the things I had kept in her house from when I left for school. My treasure box included books (my hp paperbacks), notes that my friends and I had passed to each other during class, a journal that my best friend and I kept in middle school where we wrote about our friends/boys/frenemies, my beanie baby collection, journals, letters from friends, my first watercolors as a kid, ...and the list goes on and on. I was excited to share with J all of these memories I had kept from my early years. As I looked at the stuff in my box I kept thinking how insignificant these items were, but I knew that to my teenage self, they were pretty important for me to keep stored.
