Thanksgiving 2020 recap – The Fitnessista

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Hi pals! Happy Black Friday 🙂 I hope that my fellow American pals enjoyed a cheerful Thanksgiving. It was completely completely different this 12 months, however nonetheless an exquisite one. I attempt to keep a grateful coronary heart as a lot as doable, and this 12 months I’m feeling further grateful for our household and our health. I’m so grateful for all of you and genuinely respect all of my digital BFFs on the market! Thank you a lot for hanging out with me over right here on the weblog and I hope you understand that I’m grateful for YOU. <3

I awoke, made the kiddos’ breakfast, and hopped on the spin bike for Robin’s Thanksgiving journey. I took the Turkey Burn journey final 12 months and beloved it, so I figured it might energize me for the day. it was a lot enjoyable to see so many pals on the leaderboard!!

I did NOT count on to cry for half of the journey. #1 she introduced a rider’s pregnancy who was taking the category reside along with her mother (cue all of the joyful tears) and he or she additionally talked about how grief and gratitude can coexist. It’s alright to be crammed with great grief at all the pieces that’s been misplaced this 12 months, but additionally great gratitude. That hit me fairly onerous. <3 This 12 months has been a wild journey, and fellow mothers know the exhaustion of continually trying to find silver linings for the sake of the kiddos. With the entire terribleness of this previous 12 months, there have additionally been some lovely elements. Basically once I acquired off the bike, I couldn’t inform what was sweat and what was tears, but it surely was all the pieces I wanted.

Usually for Thanksgiving, we head to dinner, {golfing}, and poker at my Uncle’s home with simply 40-50 individuals. This 12 months, most of us caught with our smaller household models as a substitute of getting the entire crew collectively. At our home, it was simply my mother, nana, stepdad, Trevor, and us. We missed seeing the remainder of the fam, but it surely was an ideal low-key celebration.

My contributions to the feast:

– Ina’s oven-roasted turkey breast. I’m by no means making an entire turkey ever once more. It was INSANE; so flavorful and moist. I additionally used her trick and put it within the serving pan atop gravy and warmed it within the oven. The gravy retains the turkey heat and prevents it from drying out.

– Green bean casserole (used the GF crispy onions from Whole Foods they usually have been life)

– Gluten-free stuffing (winged it primarily based on my normal recipe)

– Cornbread (GF Trader Joe’s boxed combine)

– A sweet potato pie (<— my first time having it)

– My nana’s chocolate mousse pie (similar to this recipe)

– Mulled wine (<— mandatory for Thanksgiving and Christmas)

– Ordered from Whole Foods: cranberry sauce, butternut squash with cranberries, and gravy

– Madre and Nani introduced over two Costco pies, an entire turkey, an enormous carafe of gravy, two kinds of stuffing, mashed potatoes, candy potatoes, and roasted veggies

There have been solely 8 of us however we had sufficient food for 40 individuals lol.

We ate outdoors on the patio and watched Trevor’s little husky pet Nova run round. Caro was amused and in addition very confused by her. It was fairly hilarious.

All the pie:

It’s been 3 years for the reason that Pilot’s been dwelling for Thanksgiving! <3 We have been so joyful to have this man round.

(try the epic photograph bomb)

A joke about Liv:

She asked if she might have a chunk of her Halloween sweet whereas I used to be cooking, and I used to be identical to okay certain no matter. She was eating a Milky Way and came visiting to me and handed me what appeared like a tough, white rock. She stated, “Mom, I thought there was a rock in my candy, but I think it’s a tooth.”

I believed she was messing with me as a result of she does this generally, and I turned it over in my fingers and observed the distinct form and ridges of an actual tooth. A molar.

You guys. I freaked out. I used to be calm on the skin, however hyperventilating on the within. SOMEONE’S TOOTH WAS IN MY CHILD’S CHOCOLATE?! Who’s tooth is it? How does this even occur??

I informed Tom to come back over and examine the tooth with me and whereas we’re making an attempt to determine it out, Liv informed us her mouth was bleeding. Turns out it was HER tooth. I can’t even describe my inside panic till we realized {that a} stranger’s molar wasn’t imbedded in her Halloween sweet. So the turkey Tooth Fairy made an look final evening.

This morning, I’m getting all the pieces able to got down to Fit Team later in the present day, going for a hike with the fam, adorning for X-mas (YASSSS), and crushing our Black Friday procuring listing.

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