Thanksgiving was lovely and we did almost nothing to make it so. Our friends, Helena and Sean (and their two kids), hosted us, and did all the cooking, so we made the utmost sacrifice and went back to eating sugar. We had to, since we brought three dessert pies. Irene adored the well thymed stuffing, and the turkey looked really impressive--falling off the bone. I had neither, but ate way too much mashed sweet potato and corn casserole. We didn't leave till almost one, and David didn't even notice how much past his normal bedtime it was.

Irene, who drove up for the weekend, and I saw Stranger Than Fiction, a really charming movie. We wanted to go to two, but I dragged Irene to the yarn store with me first, which took up way too much time. (I've become addicted to knitting, but more on that later.) David stayed home to recover from our late night and to prep himself for a dinner party the next night, but I gushed about it so much that he's decided to go see the movie by himself later this week.

Saturday was the dinner party (I swear we're not really very social), hosted by our friend Heain. She made fabulous Korean food in honor of two upcoming birthday celebrations, I made the second shoofly pie of the week, and everyone had a really good time. And unlike Sean and Helena's kids, who aren't properly appreciative of the Pennsylvania Dutch recipe, everyone at the dinner party enjoyed the shoofly. Or at least said they did. The three of us stayed up past our bedtimes, again, but since the day was otherwise fairly lazy, it all worked out.

And now the countdown to finals begins. Fun!

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