The Day After

I woke up at 4 with some of the meanest heartburn I have had for a long, long time.  I don't get heartburn much at all anymore but I should have counted on it since I enjoyed a piece of pumpkin pie.  That is a trigger for the burning of the heart since as long as I can remember.  It isn't much fun especially since pumpkin pie is one of my favorites.  Anyhow, I found that I was quite thankful this morning after Thanksgiving for Jack choosing to build a volcano for school that did not use mentos and diet coke.  Because we had to be different I had some alka-seltzer in the house.  There is not doubt that original alka-seltzer is perhaps the nastiest stuff I have ever taken but dang, I will take it again if it means relief of the burn. 

The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally a day of eating left overs for us.  Today we did just that as we gathered together again at the Brick House, set out all the left overs and had another Thanksgiving meal.  Before eating we took a picture outside at the folks van.  It was a picture to say thank you to our family friend who helped the folks get the van to get pops mobile again.  We certainly are thankful for the kindness shown and what it has meant and will continue to mean for mom and dad. 

The meal, well, I saw some pumpkin pie sitting there and although I really wasn't hungry I had to have a slice of the pie.  So good.  I've felt the acid battle all day but it was delicious.  I did end up having a small plate of food just to enjoy some of those dishes we only really eat at Thanksgiving and to have a turkey sandwich.  Tomorrow I'm back off the bread so I had to take advantage of today.  That is one of my favorite day after Thanksgiving traditions.  The classic turkey sandwich on white with mayo, salt and pepper and some cranberry sauce.  So good. 

We also played a round of bunco.  I think this was my third time playing bunco.  That was all I could remember but I just remembered another occasion whilst typing this.  So my fourth time playing bunco.  I won.  Hard to believe it.  I think it was one particular round where I managed 110 points.  That was pretty fantastic.  Anyhow, I reached a total of 509 points.  Mom was the next closest with 504.  Really I was quite shocked as last year I think I was dead last.  Worst to first, I'll chalk that up as a lucky win.  What else is it in bunco?  It's not like you can train for that... or can you? 

The day after Thanksgiving.  I am quite happy we took the day off of work and closed up the shop.  It was nice not to have to worry about any of that.  We've got a busy two weeks coming up and just being able to relax a bit for the last two days was good.  Thankful to have family in town and to enjoy time together.