Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was pretty normal this year; those of us that live around here went to Uncle Ron and Aunt Janet’s house to eat dinner. In the morning some of the guys went out to the range to shoot targets for awhile. This was Willy’s first time shooting a gun. He was a little nervous, but had a lot of fun! Willy’s brother Erik made it out from Anaheim just in time to join them for shooting. It was also his first time shooting a real gun.

While the guys were out shooting, I was at home getting our dinner contribution ready to take to Aunt Janet’s house. This year I was supposed to make an apple pie, and then of course my traditional cranberry sauce ‘therapy.’  My making the cranberry sauce is kind of a family joke.  Ten years ago I was in a really serious car accident that landed me in the hospital for a month.  The last few weeks I was there included a lot of different types of therapy, including occupational therapy- a.k.a. cooking. Thanksgiving came around shortly after I was released from the hospital, and my grandma made me come help her cook the cranberry sauce because she said I needed to continue my therapy. So now it is a tradition that I do my ‘therapy’ every Thanksgiving and make the cranberry sauce. It’s actually quite easy…

Step 1: Heat one cup of sugar with two cups of water. Add the whole cranberries when water begins to boil.



Step 2: When water returns to a boil, set timer for ten minutes and continue stirring constantly. 

Step 3: Pour liquid into a bowl, cover loosely to cool on the counter for two hours, then refrigerate until serving.

Enjoy!

We all got to the house to eat by about 3:30, and we were not disappointed with the yummy food everyone made!

We thoroughly stuffed ourselves and then enjoyed our time together looking through the Black Friday advertisements and playing a game of ‘Square Nine’. It was a great Thanksgiving!