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menu plan Monday, National Blog Posting Month

What we’ll be eating before we eat turkey

It’s one of my favorite weeks of the year! We’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving with my dad, my brother, my sister-in-law and my nephew. Our menu includes turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing (hopefully; we forgot to make it a few years ago!), butternut squash parmigiana if I can find it, and a bevy of desserts. There’s a lot of prep involved, and even though my sister-in-law is doing most of it I’m still taking it easy for meals for the rest of this week.

Monday: Chicken parmesan meatballs
The first time I made Rachael Ray’s Chicken Parm Meatballs, I just served them with some marinara dipping sauce and a veggie side. They’re a little fussy to make, but they were a big hit. This time I’m going to make some pasta to go along with them.

Tuesday: McAlister’s
I’ll be making a few Thanksgiving sides tomorrow, so we’re going to take advantage of kids-eat-free night at McAlister’s.

Wednesday: Something simple
On Wednesday we’ll be making a lot of desserts for Thanksgiving, so we’ll be having something simple for dinner.

Thursday: The Feast

Friday: Pizza
Our favorite pizza place closed earlier this year and a new one took over its space. We hadn’t tried it until last week, and I’m pleased to report that I have a new favorite pizza place.

NaBloPoMo November 2015

Diversions, National Blog Posting Month

I have no NaBloPoMo mojo

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NaBloPoMo November 2015I’ve been trying to put together a post for today for about two hours. Poppy and Pete each have a friend over for a sleepover, though, and my house is chaos:

“I’m in the magic laundry basket!”

“As king, my first decree is that you don’t have to push yourself in the laundry basket.”

“Pretend the signal for calling them is ‘WAAARGGGHOOOOOOooooooOOOOOarrrrGGHHHH.”

“So are you dead?”

“That fart was foul.”

“That wasn’t mine.”

“Don’t steal my magical laundry basket!”

So instead of whatever it was I was trying to say, let’s look at November 21 posts from years past.

This time last year found Rockford recovering from having his gallbladder removed in The Convalescing.

In 2013, I wrote A Very Terrible Villanelle.

In 2012, my youngest brother rapped incomprehensibly.

The post from 2011 appears to be a black rectangle.

In 2010, I shared with you the contents of a Post-It note.

I lied to you in 2009.

The 2008 post was just a bunch of links.

We laughed at baby Pete’s tiny head in 2007.

I made a CD of cheesy love songs in 2006. A compact disc! Not just a playlist! Ah, the olden days.

And I didn’t post anything on November 21, 2005, because National Blog Posting Month didn’t exist yet.

It has become evident that I traditionally lose my NaBloPoMo mojo on or around November 21. Perhaps I’ll get my act together on November 22.