Archives for December 2008

I actually cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner this year. It was a pretty low key deal and I really enjoyed myself. I always wanted to be able to host a holiday meal for my family but my house in Hendersonville was just too small.

Here is what I learned from my first Thanksgiving.

– Never clean your oven PRIOR to Thanksgiving.

– Corn casserole expands in the pan. A lot. And it will flat ruin your clean oven.

– Nobody likes corn casserole anyway.

– I am thankful for wine. There. I said it.

– I can kick ass at Trivial Pursuit when I am intoxicated.

– Nothing will sober you up like hearing the phrase “Katie barfed all over the new carpet!” at 2:30 AM.

– Kids want their mom when they are sick. Period. And they don’t care if you have to call and wake her up at the butt crack of dawn.

Kevin has some pics here. I was too busy cooking to take any 🙂

This was the big one for me. This place was all I had hoped for and then some. It’s just such a surreal experience to be in a place with such a history. It’s one thing to read about Elizabeth I collapsing at the traitor’s gate and refusing to walk up the steps to the tower.

It’s another thing entirely to look down at those actual steps. At that moment, she must have fully believed that she would die in that tower just as her mother, Anne Boleyn, had died. >

It just proves one of my most hard learned theories about life…

You just never know.

You could get your head chopped off or you could end up as Queen of England.

Kinda puts your nonsense in perspective, doesn’t it?

Make a Smilebox slideshow

http://rachelmom.com/2008/12/840.html