November

So, yes, we've been terrible about blogging and now I'm just doing a bunch of catch up writing. I've had a few people request more photos or at least updates on how our Christmas tour went and so I'm just going to do a couple of posts breaking down the past few months.

November was pretty mild. Started off the month by celebrating O's best friend's birthday and then we had our anniversary and Thanksgiving to celebrate. A friend of ours offered to watch O so we could go to dinner and celebrate our seven years together in peace. I was almost to the dessert course before I remembered that we had a little boy waiting for us-- it was just such bliss to eat a very nicely done steak with the luxury of time to actually chew instead of having to choke it down as fast as I can so that I'm free to entertain little O. Thank you, Fernanda and Andres.

And then there was our Thanksgiving feast. We celebrated it on Sunday with a few friends, a couple roasted chickens, and some turkey running around somewhere having been spared his fate on our table. Andrew did fantastic roasted chicken and, despite his doubts about my stuffing from scratch, actually acknowledged that it ended up being ok to not do Stovetop. Homemade spiced nuts, rolls, beans with fennel, and Michelle's pies topped the meal. It was odd how much fennel we ended up using this year. On a side note, Andrew was in charge of the camera and took precisely ten photos of the food (eight of them of the chickens, which did look beautiful) and five photos of O.

Here's a link to our best photos from November. I can't remember why but I didn't have a best photos of September album on Picasa so I put it up here-- if anyone still cares. I know I've published those photos before on FB but I think Dad is still having a hard time figuring out social networking so this link is for him.