Thanksgiving Vacation

Ahhh, my first day of vacation, although I still have a regional conference call at 1. Oh well, part of the job. Historically, my vacations are full of something - guests, errands, painting, something. But, my Thanksgiving vacation is generally pretty relaxing.

All of my Thanksgiving and Christmas donation shopping is done and most of it has been dropped off. However, I have not begun my Christmas shopping and probably won't for another week or two. My to do list is pretty small:

Buy groceries for Thanksgiving dinner
Set aside some time to go visit my Dad this week
Help deliver Thanksgiving dinner baskets to needing families
Take back a remote control to Best Buy and get another one - stupid thing won't even light up

Of course, there is cooking on Thursday (and part of Wednesday), but this year I am only cooking for two. Ira and I decided that since we did not have the kids that we would prefer a non-family dinner and just enjoy the day to ourselves. So, we (at least I hope we) are cooking a completely fresh from scratch, slighty different homemade dinner.

Lemon and Thyme Roasted Chicken (instead of turkey - there is only 2 of us after all)
Sweet potato casserole (instead of my regular yams, green bean casserole, and masked postatoes)
Awesome Sausage, Apple, and Cranberry Stuffing (instead of my normal stuffing)
Cranberry Port Relish (instead of the canned jellied cranberry sauce that I normally buy)
Butter Dipped Dinner Rolls (well, it's normally brown and serve)
Apple Struesel Pie (This is a staple to my regular Thanksgiving dinner, but I usually make a Pumpkin Pie too - again there is only two of us)

We have been invited to some friends house for dessert Thursday night, which we will probably just take our pie too.

All in all, I am looking forward to my week and am hoping that the few things that I do need to do go smoothly.