Turkey For Two!

About a month ago when I was talking to my mom I realized that there was a pretty good possibility that I would be alone this Thanksgiving. Most of my family was going to be out of town visiting other family members. I had the opportunity to go to Florida with my parents and join the rest of my family there but since I just started working again, I have limited vacation time and would have had to fly out on Wednesday. NO THANK YOU. Instead I saw these couple of days an opportunity to spend some much needed time with my little one. With me working and her being in school we are lucky if we get an hour a day together before we both fall asleep and start the day over again. I am so very grateful that I got many other offers to spend Thanksgiving with others but chose a relaxing day with my favorite person on this planet!

We started the day with a trip to the movies. We went to see A Christmas Carol in 3D of course. I thought the movie was very well done, the actors did a great job, and the 3D effects were really awesome. But it was kind of dark and Bella was scared for most of it. I could feel her shaking at some points. During the movie I felt bad for taking her but at the end when I asked her if she liked it, she said she really did. She was surprised that I was surprised by her response. I guess if she liked it then that is all that matters!

Then it was time for me to get cooking. Bella requested that I make turkey for Thanksgiving. Now I was not even sure if she would like it but I made it anyway. I bought a little 7lbs turkey breast and made us a little turkey dinner. I roasted the turkey with baby carrots and potatoes. Last time I checked she liked carrots and potatoes but all she ate for dinner was a few pieces of turkey and refused to let me put gravy on it. She is SO picky. I can honestly say that she does not take after me when it comes to food! Overall I think our little turkey dinner for two was quite delicious! I can't wait to make my favorite turkey leftover sandwich tomorrow!

We ended the evening with one of my favorite activities to do with her...bake cupcakes! We made devil's food cupcakes. I taught her how to crack eggs tonight and she did one perfect on her own. My little baker prodigy! I decided to make homemade chocolate buttercream icing because I love it. And I remembered that I bought a new large star icing tip that I had not used yet. I LOVE how the icing looks using the bigger tip, they look more professional. They taste so good, I need to find a way to get them out of my house so Bella and I don't eat them all!

As much as I am thankful that I have a great family I can honestly say that I truly enjoyed having a day that celebrating my little family. Sometimes it is nice to take a break from all of the craziness and enjoy the holidays for what they are about, celebrating with the ones we love. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Working, Running, Creating, and Reconnecting!

Oh My…no way I have not blogged since August. Sorry about that! I do have a good reason for it, I am now employed and forgot how working completely sucks away ALL of your free time! Clearly it took a little time for me to get adjusted to working again, something I forgot since I was unemployed for 11 months. This adjustment was further complicated with the addition of my 5 year old starting Kindergarten AND me training for a marathon.
Even though I have taken a little break from blogging, I did not take a break from being creative! For the Marine Corps Marathon I made myself a Camouflage Ribbon Athletic Headband as well as made our shirts. I appliqued 26.2 numbers made from camouflage fabric to a running shirt and added an American flag patch on the sleeve. The shirts looked awesome and my sister and I both had great marathons! We both not only finished but BOTH got PR’s. I beat mine by best marathon time by 12 minutes and my sister beat hers by 45!!! The Marines put on a GREAT marathon, the course was beautiful, and the water stops were very nice as well! ;-)

Coming right off of the marathon was Halloween. Since I have nothing but free time I volunteered to make the soccer team Halloween costumes for the fright night. Fright Night was a big event at the soccer fields with trick or treating, a parade, a team costume contest, and a game. So the challenge was making a costume that the kids could also play soccer in. One of the parents came up with the idea for them to be M&M’s and said each parent could make the shirt. Since I was in it to win it and am a bit OCD, I volunteered to make them. The kids were M&M’s and I made the coach the bag, I made them using t shirts and felt. I had the kids wear their black soccer shorts, black long sleeve t’s, and bought them white gloves. They looked adorable! Oh and did I mention we won first place! This Soccer Mom thing is not a bad gig!

November so far has been off to a great start! I fortunately was able to return to my Alma Mater for Homecoming and a reunion with my sorority sisters. I am not sure if I had mentioned this before but my sorority is the reason you see all of this Purple and why my business is called Purplelicious! Tri Sigma’s colors are Royal Purple and White. So naturally purple is one of my favorite colors! One day I was running and listening to Fergalicious, combined the two and Purplelicious was born! Anyway, back to the weekend! It was so amazing to be back together with my girls. Within minutes of seeing each other we were hanging out like no time had passed. When we headed back to campus to tailgate it was so incredible to be back there. I forgot how much I loved that campus and how beautiful it was. You can’t really top a campus that has palm trees. Tailgating was an entirely new experience since Coastal Carolina University did not have a football when most of us attended. I made adorable hair flowers in black and teal (school colors) with purple Tri Sigma letters on them. You can see me wearing it in the picture below! I was talking to my sister as I was getting on the plane and she said, “You are going to have the best weekend because you get to go back to a place where you had some of the best times of your life.” And she was right. Not only did I get to go back but I had a chance to make some new memories and reestablish some great friendships!

I know I always promise to be better about keeping my blog up to date but maybe it is more fun to keep you guessing as to when my next blog will be. Until next time, stay fabulous!