 Hey, hey, hey, you guys. The week before Thanksgiving, and girl, y'all have to excuse I have a blight on top of my actual phone here. So how y'all doing? A week before Thanksgiving. Let me tell you something, girl. I have three events within seven days and three dress, and three cities. One being in, girl, this here, one being in Longview. So it is November 14th. I did make sure my anxiety medicine look, I will be the first one to tell you I am all for ensuring that you are medicated, especially during the holidays. It could be such a trying time for those of us who, not even if you're not busy with family stuff, if you have lost loved ones, and I know several people have lost loved ones in the course of just a few years, meaning less than five years, it could do something to you, especially during the holidays, let me close the door. So yes, you guys, my prayers to anyone who's lost loved ones during this time, it could be very, very, very difficult. I can only imagine. So my heart does go out to all of you guys. I think of me doing a chit chat video here in a couple more days because it was a lot going on and we went to go see Black Panther movie. Let me tell you something. I'm in my feelings. I wanted to avoid saying the movie in the first place because I knew I would be upset because, one thing I'm trying to know of what you guys is yelling at my child from across the house. When I need family to do something, especially with a child with ADHD, I go directly to him like this. Okay, baby, what did that timer mean? Amen. What are you supposed to be doing? You need to drink, you need to drink the rest. Ah, hell. Girl, I don't know how much of that was taken or not, but anyway, y'all, thanksgiving stuff. I've been prepping. I already got all of our meat. I already know what I'm cooking. Y'all wanna know what I'm cooking? Girl, it's a lot because at first, my husband was like, yeah, my brothers are coming. And then it was like, no, my brothers and their families are coming. I'm like, okay. All right, you guys. We're headed out to drop JV off at school. JV goes to school. I don't have my seat belt on. And Heath, which is just 10 minutes away. 10 minutes away from us. Okay. Yeah, this time changed. You telling them or are you telling me? Tell them that. Okay. You know, most of my subscribers live in, I write analytics on y'all, and most of my subscribers actually live in Texas. Hey, y'all, I'm in the car. It is always something, isn't it? Yesterday, I had a meeting that ran really late. I mean, I was, it was a two hour meeting that started at four o'clock my time. I noticed throughout, you know, the day that my throat was a little like thickly. So sure enough, by 637, my throat was hurting. Always something y'all. And so wake up this morning, my throat is still itchy. So I'm having to cancel going back to East Texas for the weekend, because there's no way I'm gonna be 100% well, because it's thirsty. There's no way I'm gonna be 100% well by Saturday, which pisses me the F off, excuse my language, I didn't curse, because it was an opportunity for me to see all of my family. I mean, extended family that I haven't seen. Some of them I haven't seen in like eight, 10 years. It's always something. So I've been drinking vitamin C. I'm gonna make me some ginger tea when I get home, because that's normally when it starts and you get sick, your throat starts to hurt. So, and I need to be well, because I'm cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my husband's family. So if I figured, you know, I just canceled it. I called up my mama, said I can't come down, because I'm starting out to feel well. And then I have stuff to do for James school tomorrow. So that's another thing too. I wanna go ahead and kick that out, do that, and then relax most of the day, go to his school for the Thanksgiving function. I'm not gonna be eating and just, you know, thankfully he has a half a day, tomorrow. And so yeah, that just pisses me off, y'all, because I'm like, this is a good opportunity for me to see everyone. I had a hotel room, a child, I coughed them up, name dropped my sister's name. And she's like, well, we're not gonna charge you because I had paid for it up front. She said, well, we're not gonna charge you. I said, okay, good. It is what it is. All right, you guys, let me show you what I have going on. This is the cake, very, very simple, y'all. This was just, look, I am so greedy. I know which cake mixes make the best to duplicate a pound cake. So I'm doing like a chocolate bunt cake. This is the triple chocolate bunt cake, I believe by Duncan Hines. I like to add vanilla to it. Sometimes I like to add pudding. Chocolate cake tends to be a little bit moist, so I don't have to do all of that. But then it go on top, I have the fudge. Don't do the milk chocolate, do the fudge. I took the fudge, I moped it a little bit, and then I'm gonna drizzle it all with chocolate for the babies. The cornbread in here is almost done. Yeah, it actually is done. I just turned the oven off. I have a Walmart chicken that I purchased is in here boiling in. I have this merri-pois. I know I'm pronouncing that wrong. I'm gonna saute this in a stick of butter, and that's the dressing, baby. Matter of fact, I'm so greedy. I will do enough. I have enough in there to make a little pan for me and then a pan for the kids. So yeah, that's it. In here is the cake, you guys. Like this cake cost me $5 to make five or six bucks. It could feed about 20 people, 15 to 20 people. So the children gonna like it. So yeah, that's the cake. And I'm getting tired, I need to sit down. I'm gonna put the dressing in the oven. Hey you guys, it is the day before Thanksgiving, girl, ignore this face. This is the face of last night. It's the day before Thanksgiving and what I'm doing, y'all, I'm me being the planner. I've already had stuff planned for a while. But what I think about doing is the menu is massive. I already have, let me sit down, y'all. I already have the container, what do you call it? My server out here, when it comes to stuff like this, I use real glass, ceramic, serveware. I don't know the full paper, if that's what you're gonna get up, that's okay, I just want things nice. We don't eat on paper plates. I actually ordered a set of white dinner plates that are coming in today. We used the nice stuff, so, you know, cause it's a holiday, we only do this once in a while. If this was a cookout, you know what I mean? Like coming over real quick, yeah, paper plates, but I want them to eat on real good stuff and stuff. All right, so this is a lot of the cookwork I'm getting out. I have to clean. I hate that I gave away so much stuff to my girlfriend, Ms. Wanda. I just don't know why. And I put some other stuff here on a table. I'm gonna have to clean all of this stuff, you guys. And then we have the coffee stuff, cause they like to drink coffee after eating. And so I'm gonna go ahead and get dressed to go to Kroger, cause I do not wanna be fighting people for some damn greens, it's not happening. My kitchen is fairly clean. I keep my kitchen clean. I can't, I did the floors yesterday. And so, honestly, just today, I'm just gonna be prepping, I'm making sure everything is, you know, pretty much put together. Yeah, look at these pajamas I got for a fall. I don't wanna lose another, first of all, I don't know why I think I'm this huge. This is literally, this is so big, but this is okay, it's comfortable. I got these from my children's place, and I'm one of those annoying family members that likes to get natural PJs, at least for JV and I, my husband won't do it. And so these are cute, huh? I'm gonna wear these all day today. Now tomorrow's a different story, all day today. So here we are, the morning of Thanksgiving, just showing you guys some decorations and the fireplace odd. Here are all the vegetables that I prepped the day before, JV helped me. I cut up all the vegetables for the dishes I was making and labeled them in Ziploc bags. Up next is a couple of plates I got from Amazon and here is the food, mashed potatoes. We have rice, I'm cooking some beef. And next up I'm gonna show you an assortment of different desserts. I made sweet potato pie, some fruit on display and some pound cake. I use a cake mix for this pound cake, but it was very, very good. No one even really noticed because I doctored it up, child. So we have some dressing and some Cornish game hen and this is what's on the actual dining room table with the beef, the rice was the vine, mashed potatoes, corn and green beans. After all this show, I went over to my best friend's house, she lives in the neighborhood. So she had tons of food too. So it was really funny, I went from East Africa to West Africa and 24 hours. It was really, really fun to be with my friends and family. So yeah, this is what our Thanksgiving was like for this year. We just want to thank you, we just want to thank you. We just want to thank you, we just want to thank you. Hey you guys, it is the day after Christmas. So I'm sorry, I'm the day after Thanksgiving. So you know what it means. It's time to put up the Christmas tree. This Christmas tree is massive. It's seven and a half feet tall. So I think it's a little too big to have over here. So we're gonna, once we get it, this is new for us too. Once we get everything in port out, we're gonna move this tree over here to see how we have a lot of space over here. We're gonna move it over here and then we're gonna move this sofa table over here and I'm gonna put my Christmas village up here. So JB had to remind me. He's like, don't you usually vlog now? I do child, we are tired and plus I got on Christmas meetings. The failsafe, so after just two generations, at most only half of the offspring would carry the engineer gene. In a population of billions of mosquitoes. I bought iPhone 14 with this amazing camera. Wow. And he bought iPhone 14 on us and four new lines for just 25 bucks a line.