Thanksgiving Menu Plans

Thanksgiving is 2 weeks away, and Cayce and I have started our menu planning for Thanksgiving. We started planning our Thanksgivings out the year we moved into our home. Which, by the way, we will be living in this house for 2 years on Black Friday. It doesn't feel like 2 years, and every other place we lived we stayed at for a year and a half or 2 years, and it's a weird feeling knowing that we are going to be here for the rest of our lives, but hopefully, we will be getting a bigger house put on this land and trade this one in. Anyways, back to the menu.

We will be having:

Herb Roasted Turkey
Cayce's Mac & Cheese
Deviled Eggs
Green Bean Casserole
Blessing Loaf
Pecan Pie
Sweet Potato Pie

RIP Grandma Dooley

Today we buried my great grandma. It was very hard. She was my family's rock. She was very loved and was always happy. She started going down hill when Samantha was in the hospital at 1 month old. She went into cardiac arrest, and I couldn't be there with her. She had many more hospital visits after that.

My daddy told me that the night before she died, she had trouble breathing and the pastor that was there on Saturday night, said right before she went, she looked up and smiled and took her last breath. My granddaddy was heartbroken. He was so in love with her, he didn't leave her side at all. They were together 60 plus years, and she was with my biological granddaddy a couple years before that.

Her funeral was good, but the funeral procession to the gravesite made me angry. Other cars kept jumping in and cutting us off, pretending to be in the procession just to turn a few miles down the road, and the cops not waiting for everyone, and us getting stopped by lights.

Cayce and I had to bring the girls with us, and it was FREEZING outside. The wind sucked. Right after the pastor spoke, we were the first one's to leave, and on our way out the garden, I saw the people who would put my grandma into the ground and I lost it when I saw the backhoe.

I just got off the phone with my daddy, and he said that I left just in time because after we left, everything went down hill. One of my cousins who leaved with her and was raised by her lost it and asked to open the casket to say bye to her, and my aunt lost it and went berserk.

But I know that she isn't suffering anymore, and that she is with my great uncle Mikey.

Bryar's 3rd Birthday

On Saturday, Cayce took the girls to his little cousin's birthday party. I had been looking forward to going for a while and with everything that went on with my grandma's funeral, I needed to get my mind off of it and have a good time.

Well, as I was getting ready, I had a feeling something wasn't right. Now I take these feelings very seriously because every time I do have these feelings, something ALWAYS goes wrong. So, I ended up staying home and constantly checking my Facebook.

Two hours after Cayce left, I checked Facebook once again, and my great grandma passed away. I called Cayce and he came home.

Here are some pictures from the party.

I hate that I missed Bryar's party.

Menu 11/11- 11/17

Monday: Chuck Wagon Pot Roast
Tuesday: Pizza
Wednesday: Hamburger Helper
Thursday: Shrimp Salad
Friday: Pork Butt
Saturday: Leftovers
Sunday: Spaghetti

Prep. Curriculum: Week 4 (Ariana)

Ariana did ok this week. I say ok because she only did 4 days this week and everyday, we did our lessons late. She did good on the weekly theme, but couldn't remember the letter or number. We worked on it more this weekend. The same went for Ariana on Monday, she had the day off to spend with daddy.

Tuesday:

She enjoyed coloring with the new crayons. She wanted to take them into the kitchen and color with them in her coloring book.

 Wednesday:

Listening to her music. Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

 

Thursday:

She did well on these pages. Her coloring has sped up which has made me happy, now I just have to help her stay in the lines.

 

Friday:
On Friday, she was the last to do her school work, which was after 7:00pm.

She found 4 out of 5 d's all by herself and she was proud of it.

This week coming up will be her last before a week long break. I messed up the scheduling and decided to do school every 5 weeks with her and then give her a week off. She'll do great because every day, she asks me to do school, so I know she isn't getting tired of it yet, but her lessons only last 20 minutes.

Letter Curriculum: Week 25

It's review week. I felt really our of routine this week and I know exactly why. My grandma's death affected the entire household. I gave Sammy the day off on Monday because Cayce stayed home from work to be with me and the girls. So on Tuesday, we had a double lesson.

Tuesday:

Our new school crayons. I was going to give these to Ariana, but she doesn't take care of the other crayons, so these are for school only.

This is the cutest book.

Wednesday:

She didn't have a book to read for the letter R, so we reread our bible story for the day.
Thursday:

this was a good book

Friday:
We did school really late on Friday, after 6:00pm. NEVER AGAIN!!!

Ready for a new school week. Next, the letter U!

Hoping for a Better Weekend

The past two weeks have been hard for me. This month is going by so slow and I'm on the edge of my seat every minute of every day waiting for a phone call that I don't want to get. I have been feeling sick all week and wanting to sleep every minute.

Tomorrow I am hoping to have a better day. We are going to a birthday party. I'm praying that I don't get a phone call on our way to Aiken. I will post more on the party next week.

On Sunday, Cayce has to work all day at the store, so I am going to be cleaning all day and being bored.