I celebrated the Canadian Thanksgiving last night, and thank goodness I now have six weeks of recovery before we host the American Thanksgiving at the end of November. This is what I learned this year:
There is a very good reason you should wear pants that fit to Thanksgiving dinner!
Yesterday when dressing, I purposely looked for the pants that would least squeeze my stomach at the Thanksgiving dinner. (A bit of a challenge for me these days, as I've been slacking on the Pilates lately.) We debated with KB, IG and AD for a while why we couldn't actually wear pajama pants to the dinner, as the point is to be elastic and eat as much as you can!
Take my advice, friends, do not go this route this year. Wear pants that actually fit you! The problem is, if you don't have the waistband of the pants squeezing and telling you when to stop, the next thing that squeezes and tells you when to stop is your skin. And you can't loosen your skin when you get home.
I'm quite sure I've never eaten so much before in my life as I did last night, because my skin still feels too tight this morning. Aijajai......it was amazingly good food - a turkey cooked just right in a convection oven, gailenu gravy (mushrooms just freshly picked from the forest), KB's famous stuffing, AD's homemade from scratch macaroni and cheese, roasted vegetables and butternut squash, yum....... And for dessert, I had made pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting, and AD had made cinnamon buns, of course we all had to eat both desserts.
Today we're heading to Jaunvitagas for recovery. I'm on a mission to collect moss for a science experiment we'll be doing in class tomorrow and I'll be searching for the last of this season's mushrooms (though we've already had a frost, so it's doubtful), and KB will be going to town with his trimmer. Hopefully the fresh air will do a world of good.
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