Things to do | Alisa Murray’s Sweetlife column |November 2014

Thanksgiving 2014

Things to do right now…..

Order a bunch of clothes and toys
Drink Wassail
Eat candied apples and sausage balls
Eat chewy peppermints
Make and Eat chocolate pecan (pronounced Pee-Can) pie
Bake lots of cookies especially the peanut butter chocolate ones that’s Brian’s favorite
Make a list
Play Buble’ Holiday album
Place and decorate 11 different Christmas trees throughout the house
Make pumpkin bread with fresh pumpkin
Play in the leaves
Buy “Love that Red” lipstick…. Nana’s favorite
Buy tickets to “A Christmas Carol”
Call the North Pole and remind Santa about my 16th annual holiday bash and toy drive Dec.6
Hang feathers on all chandeliers
Bake the Bourbon Ham and BBQ Turkey
Roast Artichokes with sausage and lemons
Collect four different secret Santa’s for a child and fill their stockings full
Send Pictures Daily
Go on a hayride
Write my 88 year old great Aunt since she “doesn’t do the internet”
Pass out gift certificates and Thank You’s to clients, teachers and loved ones
Check the list twice
Turn on the heater to the jacuzzi
Wrap presents
Wear Red
Build a fire
Invite my sister plus kids over multiple times
Roast some marshmallows with Victoria Ann and James Edward
Go to ZaZa for a night with B
Get spice scents and pine scents and place all over the house
Decorate the cats with their thanksgiving collars
Dance to “It Had to be You” by Frank Sinatra
Light candles
Wear Fur
Sit on the porch and smell the rain
Look into my daughter’s eyes and tell her how much I love her
Look into my son’s eyes and tell him how much I love him
Look into my husband’s eyes and tell him how much I adore him and need him
Look into my friends eyes tell them thank you for being in my life
Call my in laws and tell them how grateful I am for being their daughter – in- law
Remember that this is the only 2014 Thanksgiving the world will ever have…savor the moments
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