How do you cook a turkey?

Each Kindergartner in Nicky's class was asked this age-old question.  He came home with a booklet of their answers.  I assume it's kosher for me to share some of them here so long as I don't identify the kids (except my own kid, Nicky):

"You buy it at Walmart.  Cut it or something.  Maybe put it in a pan.  Cook it for a short time."

"First you need to shoot the turkey.  Bring it home and make it hot.  You put some vegetables all over it, and that's how you make the turkey."

"You put it in the oven and then you let it cook.  Like 3 minutes.  You get it out and let it cool off and then you eat it with, like, some fruit."

"Like, if there was someone that died and get the skin from them and put that on the turkey.  Cook it.  Serve it with mashed potatoes."

"You get one at the grocery store.  Cook it.  Put it in the microwave.  I don't know how long.  You eat it.  But I don't eat chips except on a special day.  But Thanksgiving is a special day."  - Nicky a.k.a. Dominic

"Make a chicken wing instead.  Buy 7 chicken wings.  Cook them in the oven for 9 minutes.  Serve apple cider.  Maybe a little pumpkin pie."

Happy Thanksgiving y'all.

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free cookies & a flat tire

I thought a little random act of kindness we experienced this weekend was blogable. On Saturday we took the kids to the bakery and had them pick out cookies (mom & dad did too, of course). A couple that was at the register had the clerk put our treats on their tab because "every kid should have a cookie." Five 'turkey' sugar cookies and an M&M cookie for free, woo hoo! Thanks cookie angels.

Then we ran a few errands. Nate took Michael into Great Clips while I stayed in the van with the kids 'cuz Zach was sleeping. After Michael's haircut, Nate noticed we had a completely flat front tire. Luckily there was a Goodyear on the other side of the parking lot so we got it taken care of pretty quickly. We weren't expecting to drop $125 for a tire this weekend, but it happened in a convenient spot (unless Goodyear employees throw razors into adjacent parking lots) and the free cookies balanced it all out.

gift idea

I didn't know what a gold mine of blog ideas these Catholic Online emails would be. Just got another gem today, titled 'What's So Great About A Goat?' with this pic inside:
After a brief 'What the Heck?!' moment I realized it's a charity idea, because a goat = a practical gift to a family in a developing country. But it's still kind of funny. Here's the site it links to, with other ideas as well. Now we have an excuse to give someone a pig for Christmas, just by clicking on 'Add to Cart.'

Didn't know Luke & Han and I had so much in common.

Angels aren't wimpy

Somehow I got on the Catholic Online email list. They recently sent a message hocking a book called The Angels and their Mission. I found some of their graphics funny.

Just say no to wimpy angels.Instead, angels are mighty warriors! So they proffer this 17th century image of St. Michael by some artist dude named Guido Reni as a more sensible depiction of heaven's messengers:Which is cool and all. We have this St. Michael statue in Michael & Nicky's room which seems to be modeled on Reni's portrait:
The trouble is, angels are spiritual beings, so it's not really more accurate to portray them in frou-frou body armor with swords than in a cutesy Precious Moments way. Which has me wondering...aren't there any modern artists making cutting-edge angel art? I don't think I've seen any representations that don't involve white robes, effeminate hair, and feathery wings. If we want to accurately promote relevant tough guy angels, they should wear camo and wield assault rifles and grenades. If I was better at Photoshop and the like, I'd try it out, but you probably get my drift.

Boo!

Nicky got some black fangs from one of his K-garten buddies at their 'harvest party' on Friday. Not sure why a vamp would have black teeth - maybe a really old decrepit one? We had a fun halloween. Nana and Papa were here to help us celebrate. We carved those massive pumpkins and Nana made chocolate chip cookies with the kids.Here's our crew with 3 recycled costumes and one rock star made up of some of Adrienne's dress-up clothes. At first, Zach wasn't sure what to think about this knocking on people's doors business, but he got into it when he figured out the objective. He was awfully cute toddling around in his bee costume.