Wednesday, Nov. 21

Up around 7:30, and after breakfast, did stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9 a.m., and we headed right to the kitchen to prepare more Thanksgiving food.

We started with the dressing. This is Mother's specialty, so I gathered the dried bread and all the other ingredients for her, and then stuck around while she made a recipe large enough to fill two baking dishes to be put in the refrigerator until tomorrow.

After that, I gathered the ingredients necessary for making pumpkin custard. This will be for me, so I won't have to eat full fat pies with crusts tomorrow. The custard has egg substitute, sugar substitute, and fat free condensed milk. Mother mixed the recipe, and then I put it in the oven and hung around until baked.

Worked on the deviled eggs next. Mother did most of the work on these, too. By this time, it was 11:30 and time for lunch.

While we prepared food, Hubbie went to a local restaurant and picked up hot rolls I'd ordered last week. These big, fluffy rolls smelled so good that we had to sample them for lunch. In fact, the rolls are so large that one of them was all Mother wanted, except for a small piece of cold pork roast. Hubbie had a slice of ham, some cranberry sauce, and a hot roll; and I had pork roast, cranberry sauce, and a roll.

Afterward, I encouraged Mother to take a nap. While she slept, I finally showered and got ready for the day. Then I did this and that...ironed tableclothes, snapped photos of about thirty Christmas cards Mother and I made for Caring Hands, and gathered dishes, silverware, and stemware for the table.

Later, when Mother finished her nap, we watched this week's episodes of "Dancing With the Stars." Then we had a supper of leftovers, which cleared the refrigerator for Thanksgiving leftovers. I suspect we'll be working on those throughout the weekend.

After supper, Hubbie accompanied Mother to her house, and then we did a few other things related to getting ready for tomorrow, before relaxing in front of TV for the rest of the evening.

Tonight, we watched the last of the DVDs we borrowed from the library last week..."Everybody's Fine." This 2009 drama stars Robert De Nero, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale. A widower tries to get his family together at his home, but everybody is busy. So he sets off to surprise-visit each of them, despite his doctor's advice against traveling. In the course of events, he learns a lot about his children, as well as himself. Good movie.