Gearing Up

I'm heading out of town.

Again.

Rod will be home though.

He has a list longer than his arm

of things he wants / needs to do

this weekend.

In all his spare time.

HAhahahahahahahahahahahaha

Anyhow.

I believe I already mentioned earlier,
we are having people over for 

Thanksgiving Dinner.

I don't normally do that.

Back in the olden days, the family

was almost all up in Gainesville

for the annual motocross races,

enjoying turkey under a tent

in the horrible,

hot and windy

or freezing and windy

November Gainesville weather.

I was always grateful to stay home.

And then we closed the shop

and we sometimes went to Tim and Angie's

house for Thanksgiving dinner.

But this year Jim and Sabrina have

plans to go camping up in the 

Ocala National Forest

for the long weekend.

We are going to have a Thanksgiving Breakfast

before they leave town.

Kyle is still in Utah.

He will be having Thanksgiving dinner with 

some friends who live out there.

Rod and I were going to just have a

nice, quiet, thanksgiving / birthday dinner.

Just the two of us.

But then he decided to invite a couple of

his Home Teaching Sisters who were

going to be alone.

And then he was talking to another friend

and ended up inviting him and his wife.

So it will be 6 of us for dinner.

I plan to spend much of this weekend

working on the menu / shopping list.

(My students have lots of built in - 

work-on-it-by-yourself 

kind of stuff this weekend)

(A 2 hour "mid term" on Saturday morning,
2 hours of "review" videos,

and a 2 hour "final exam" on Sunday evening)

Anyhow.

I'm pretty sure I know what I'm serving.

Just need to finalize it.

Most of what I'm making is 

Trim Healthy Mama compliant.

Although it's not Thanksgiving without Rhodes rolls.

So there will be those.

And I'll TRY not to eat more than a dozen.

Anyhow.

I'm super excited about it.