Canadian Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends and family out there. Tomorrow is the "official" Thanksgiving day in Canada but most families are celebrating today.

It's still a little strange for me to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. Especially since the hubby's family doesn't celebrate it every year. We are going to a dinner today tho so I'm pretty happy about that. Another excuse for me to make corn souffle, YUM!

I have to say it is weird to celebrate Thanksgiving before not only Halloween but even before my birthday! My season always goes like this: My birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. I guess celebrating like that for 28 years makes it hard for me to adjust to anything else, ha! I try to have American Thanksgiving but it never seems to work out. I think when Faythe (and ??) gets older, we'll do it as a family to still keep my American traditions going! My friend tells me I shouldn't refer to Illinois as "home" when I'm going there (as I still do) since Vancouver is now my home. I'm sure once I've been here for as long as I was there, it will feel like home to me! It still doesn't right now tho. I need to be with my family, it's hard being here without them.

Well the first part of my fiscal year-end is done at work, WA-HOO!! Now I can breathe a little bit! In a couple weeks the rest will be done and I can concentrate on my new position. It will be nice to have all this done and over with.

Halloween is just a little over 3 weeks away! I'm not sure where we're going to take Faythe trick-or-treating this year. Last year we took her to the Brentwood Mall and it was a MADHOUSE. She was only a year and a half old and kids were just pushing her out of the way and practically running her over. Alan had to get "fatherly" on some boys who almost knocked her on her butt. The candy they hand out isn't that great either. It's like a cinnamon drop or werthers or a cheap, puny sucker. 99.9% of it is hard candy and small ones at that. Even at 2 and a half now, I really don't want her eating the hard candy. I don't quite feel safe with her doing that yet. Our neighborhood isn't great for it, either. I tried to hand out candy one year and got 7 people to my door. 5 of them were in one group! We might take her to her Grandfather's neighborhood, it might be better. I just want her to be able to experience going!

Well I better get going. Almost time to go to the hubster's family's house for T-dinner. Have a great weekend everyone!

(oh..about the turkey...it wasn't made on January 4, 2004. It was Christmas 2005. My Mom and I made it for dinner. What DELICIOUS breasts it had!)