Happy Thanksgiving

The power came back on last night- thank goodness! After sleeping in for a bit this morning, I crawled out of bed and started the day in the kitchen... The only stress was trying to fit more then 1 person in my kitchen at a time :-) Dinner was good, even if I forgot the peas, and to turn on the burner for the carrots after they sat on the stove for half an hour ... or that we didn't have drinks, and that my grandparents had to buy pumpkin pies because they cooked 2 and forgot to put sugar in them!!! Oh my the funny things that happened today that created good memories :-)

Dinner was great, and clean up was a cinch with help and I even got everyone to create a "Thankful" page for my scrapbook and stole some candid pictures of each person to put beside their note... however I did forget to get family pictures of all of us and to say grace... it's the thought right?

So dinner is done, leftovers in the fridge and now scoping out the black Friday deals... why? I'm not going but love the thrill of finding a deal.. even if I am just browsing online :) looking for some blackfriday facts???
Check out http://www.blackfridayandcybermonday.com/ for more info!

The origin of the name, "Black Friday" historically comes from the retailer's shift to profitability during the holiday season. Back in the day when accounting records were kept by hand, red ink indicated financial loss while black ink indicated profit, thus coining the popular fiscal terms of being "in the red," (losing money) or "in the black" (profitable).

As Black Friday is the day many U.S. consumers typically begin their Christmas shopping, sales are heavily promoted by retailers throughout the country. Stores are often decorated for the Christmas seasons weeks before-hand and retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) to offer "door buster deals", "loss leaders" and incentives to draw people to their shops. Although the day after Thanksgiving has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season for decades, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1970s and did not achieve widespread use and popularity until 2002