Holiday recap

This year was nicer/crappier than last as far was the four-day weekend. On one hand we had Thanksgiving at our house and everyone came to us so we didn't have to travel to four-baghillon different places this year. Natali organized the evening and it went swimmingly, good food (cookies and desserts for days), minimal family annoyance, all around good time. Not to say it was not without drama, a family incident here, forgetting the cranberry sauce there, etc... The latter was a BIG deal. I cannot eat turkey without cranberry sauce on it (if you haven't tried it I don't want to hear anything).

But just as every year, the peace and fellowship of Thanksgiving gives way to... bum... bum... bummmmm... Black Friday. This year being in the middle of a recession, meaning both: people have less money to spend for the holidays and stores are needing as much business as possible, made it a deadly combination (literally). But we thought we'd give it a shot anyway since it is becomming a bit of a tradition and its nice to have all of your shopping done a month in advance (so I can procrastinate wrapping for 30 days as opposed to one).

The short version of the story is drove around from store to store finding very few good deals, went home found great deals online and realized I could have slept in. sigh.

We also had Holly of HollyJones fame come by and take family photos yesterday. It was probably a little more than she bargained for, but we really appreciate her patience and are very excited to see how they turned out!

As far as today... TBD :). Hope everyone else's weekends went well. How about you? What did you do for the infamous Black Friday?