MiWonderings: Thanksgiving Festivities

This year I felt like Thanksgiving was being so rushed and overlooked in many of the retail stores. Even before Thanksgiving was near all the Christmas holiday decorations were starting to appear. I made a point of not even thinking about Christmas until we celebrated Thanksgiving. So here is my post on our Thanksgiving celebrations.

This year, I have the privilege of being lil P's class mom. And yes in our school it is considered a privilege, complete with an application specifying how many number of times you served in various PTA activities. So, I was surprised and excited to be picked by the committee for lil P's class.

Lil P's class had a Thanksgiving party, for which I prepared the food.

A gaggle of turkey pretzels

How to:
1. Dip pretzel rods in melted dark chocolate candy melt.
2. Place on a Keebler Grasshopper cookie. (to support the pretzel up put a chopstick/dowel under the undipped pretzel)
3. Use melted chocolate to attach 5 candy corn.
4. Use melted chocolate to attach candy eye balls.
5. Use melted chocolate to attach half of an orange m&m.
6. Use melted red candy melt to make the wattle. Use a piping bag or a ziplock bag and make a small cut in the corner.

Turkey cups filled with carrot and cheese sticks

How to:
1. Print turkey pictures and attach to plastic cups with pedestal base (Found at Party City).
2. Cut carrots into sticks long enough to protrude over the top of the cup (to look like the turkey's feathers).
2. Cut cheese sticks (white cheddar and regular cheddar) to match carrots.

A cornucopia of fruit

How to:
1. Steam waffle cones for 30 seconds until they fall apart and are soft (one at a time, two if you are super fast because they harden quickly)
2. Quickly wrap it around a cone shape (I made one with foil) to reshape and the bend the bottom up.
3. Fill with fruit.

Thanksgiving in VA
We spent Thanksgiving in VA with family and feasted on a traditional Thanksgiving meal with turkey and all the fixings. Then we enjoyed the Reston Town Center Holiday Parade which was celebrating their 25th year.