The Bird That Was Delicious

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

This is the WASHA learning centre.

This was pretty much the LONGEST week of my life! Monday I was signed up to be a full-time Teacher's assistant (for a least a month) at Chris' school. There are only 3 teachers and a principal at the school, so when the principal went to Thunder Bay for a conference, the school was short-staffed. They put me in charge of the kindergarten kids! Imagine that. It was awesome, especially since there are only 4 of them. Four little ankle-bitters. We had fun on Monday - learning our ABCs, 123s, colours and shapes. However, I told Karen at the learning centre that I would look after the place while she went to Winnipeg (or wherever) for personal business. I was at the learning centre Monday night, Tuesday (ALLLL DAY), Wednesday (ALLLL DAY) and Thursday (ALLLLLLLLL DAY). Honest to Jebus - 2 people came into the centre, one used the computer for 15 minutes, the other sat and talked with me, told me ghost stories, scared the poop out of me, and left. Oh right, and then Chris came in too, with about 5 kids. They wanted to play games on the computer. But that wasn't going to happen.

Anyways, after about 30 hours of silence, I got to go back to kindergarten on Friday. It was especially awesome because I took the kiddies outside to gather material for an art project. We collected leaves and grass and all sorts of vegetation. Then we glued it to the paper. I let the kids take their art home, but felt bad because then I learned that the art would most likely not make it home in one piece, or not at all. Damn kids. Joking.

So Friday afternoon (the kindergartners are only half days, so I assist in the afternoon) was the bi-monthly movie day. The movie this time was Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - a modern day movie based on the lives of human-greek god offspring and their crazy adventures. It actually wasn't too bad. But the other 2 teachers (besides Chris) decided to head to their families off rez early for the holidays. This means that Chris and I were put in charge of the WHOLE school and ALL the kids for about 2 hours. Whoa! Aside from a view grumpy grumps, the afternoon went pretty well.

And finally - Thanksgiving weekend! Let's just say that I started it off by taking a very long nap on Friday night. Then on Saturday we cleaned house and vegged out. Sunday was THE day! I let Chris sleep and sleep and sleep. Then he got grumpy at me for letting him sleep too long. Geez. Anyways, we seasoned the big, ol' 9 pound turkey and got it in the oven by 1ish. For sides we had cranberry sauce, mashed taters, turnips, sweet potatoes, stuffing and gravy (yes, gravy is a side dish). We even had pump-a-kin pie for dessert. I am proud to say - especially to those in my family who witnessed my last turkey dinner about FOUR YEARS AGO - everything turned out perfectly cooked and delicious...check it out!

This is the man who went online and watched a video of "how to sharpen a knife" so we'd have perfect cuts ... see the result of his cutting below. But it was a perfectly moist, delicious bird.

The spread - mmmm mmmmm good - notice the ketchup haha

pump-a-kin pie

the mangled bird

 Chris and I had a very nice Thanksgiving dinner. We even had a discussion on why our Turkey dinner was better just the two of us. We made some good points about the craziness of our respective families, but we still missed them very much and hope they had a good Thanksgiving too. That's it for now - xoxo Christine 

Plato's impression of how Chris and I felt after dinner. SO FULL!