Thanksgiving Debrief

We have had the craziest two days! We had one Thanksgiving dinner with my mom, Ben, and my grandparents at their place at 1pm. We had a good time, but were sad my uncle could not make it as he had the flu. Before I go on, I want to stop here because I have a tangent to go off on. Thanksgiving is not a Jesus Christ holiday like Christmas is. I think in a lot of ways Thanksgiving is just important in some valuable principles. It helps prepare our hearts to be thankful before the holiday season even begins. I know a lot of people think Thanksgiving is just an excuse to watch football during the week or make a big meal or a "Turkey Day", but I want to make sure I am grateful before I eat it. There are so many people especially in the U.S. especially this year who do not have much. I do not want to take it for granted what I have and I pray for them to hold on and thank God for simpler things so He can get them through.

After our first Thanksgiving, we had a second at Amanda's mom's at 6pm. It was a good amount of time for my food to digest from the first. The food was also very good and I really think I gained about 5 pounds in one day (the scale said I did, I was not exaggerating). After dinner, we went through our ads and planned our black Friday agenda.

Friday morning we awoke at 3:55 am. Yes, 3 and 4 am are sleeping hours and we awake during them. We headed to JC Penney and then Wal-Mart at 5am. This was our first mistake because it was absolutely insane for electronics. I dropped off the girls, Amanda, her mom, and her sister, Liz and proceeded to find a parking spot. About twenty minutes later gave up and waited for them. I found out Liz yelled at a lady for pushing my wife about ten feet with the front of a shopping cart. We vowed never to go to Wal-Mart again when it opened. We also heard about a man who was trampled to death in New York. Next we went to Office Depot where a lady yanked a wireless printer, Amanda's mom's present, out of my wife's hand. We ended up finding some more so it was not such a big deal, it was just the principle of the thing. We were out till about 1230 pm as Amanda's mom had a lot of shopping to do. We got all of our shopping done for our family done in one day with sweet deals!

A lot of guys out there are like what the heck are you doing? Shopping for that long? Well, yes, Amanda has a good time and I do too as long as we keep moving. I make the whole operation run smooth, the chauffeur if you will ;)

The end of the day was us getting a Christmas tree, setting it up at Amanda's dad's house where we stay when we are in Tampa, and decorating it. The end of the end of the day was Rodney, asleep, face down on the ottoman. :)