Après Thanksgiving.

November 27, 2009

Days after holidays are hard when you have to say goodbye to family and head home. There’s just that little feeling of something missing..

I am cheering up by relaxing with my boys and catching up on blogs and Biggest Loser.

My morning started with some plain yogurt, granola, raisins and slivered almonds. After the picture was taken I drizzled a little honey on top.

Along with a cup of OJ(please excuse the messy table).

We packed up and headed out by noon, around 1:15 we pulled over to eat our lunches. Mom packed “gobblers”..

The story of the gobbler begins about eight years ago at this point we had already spent a couple summer’s on Martha’s Vineyard, a small island off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass.

We actually lived there for a few months, at the beginning of my freshman year of high school. We heard of “Humphrey’s Bakery” and it’s awesome sandwiches. One day, we pulled over into the little shop that’s pictured on the website and I saw the “Turkey Gobbler” sandwich which had turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce on fresh bread. I thought it sounded good so we ordered it. Well it was a HUGE sandwich on crusty, fresh french bread. The turkey was real turkey and was every time we went. They actually cooked a turkey everyday to make your sandwich amazing and at the time it was 5 bucks. The best deal on the island. It’s now 6.50 but trust me, they could charge 10 for this sammie. Now every day after Thanksgiving, my mom always makes us gobblers. We weren’t together last year, so I happily ate!

She made it on some Publix white mountain bread my sister had bought(her favorite). It was awesome!

We also picked up some fuel. With DD iced coffee it can be really good or really bad. Sadly, this was one of those bad DD times. They didn’t add any sugar or sweetener at all. I need a little something here! Luckily I had some sugar packets in my car from past DD trips, I used a few but they don’t really dissolve easily in cold liquid. I drank about half.

Now we are home. Leo is sleeping..

..he’ll be a little sad for the next few days but I think he’ll cheer up. My sister brought him here so that we could be his “foster parents” for anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. She lives in NYC and manages a popular BBQ restaurant there. She works long hours and so Leo is usually home by himself a lot. Also, it’s hard for her when she wants to go out with friends after a long day, or one of her few days off and has to choose between leaving him alone longer or going out. This is a trial run, and we’re happy to help her out.

I miss my sister already, this was the best visit we’ve had with each other in a while. Sometimes we get tense with each other but this time there was none of that. We are 5 1/2 years apart in age(I’m younger) and as I get older I feel like we can relate a lot more and just really be there for each other. She is an amazing sister and I am really blessed.

Here we are at my wedding where she was my maid of honor..

Love you and miss you already Jen!

Right now we are making dinner out of things we have. It’s smelling yumm..

Apple pie recipe to come tonight.

Katy

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