ThanksShabbas!

Today I am roasting a turkey and making a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for my stepdad Leo, who is American. A Jewish friend of mine was chuckling when I told him and started calling it ThanksShabbas since Friday is the night I make my Shabbat (or Shabbas) dinner and I'm doing the thanksgiving turkey a day late!

So, the bird is stuffed and in the oven. I feel like I should be in a panic with a million things to do, but I'm not. I'm throwing potatoes in to bake and vegetables will probably be canned...make my challah every week anyway. So really, it's all good! How come these sort of days always used to feel like so frantic for me? Why is it that now, not so much?

Ok...so I have to tell you about the funniest thing that happened when I was walking home from my vestibular physiotherapy at Health Sciences Centre on Wednesday. I had stopped in the Hudson's Bay store on Portage and was walking out the door across from the Winnipeg Art Gallery when I saw a young woman putting her child into a vehicle. Her husband was behind the wheel talking on his cell phone. So she put her purse and child into the car, closed the door and was folding up the umbrella stroller to put into the back. As she bends down to do this and I'm walking by the vehicle, he drives off! She looked up stunned....I stopped and I'm sure I too looked stunned....she said "did he really just drive off???". I started laughing and said something to the effect of "someone's going to be in deep shit when he gets home!". We stood together, both laughing, and watched to see how long it would be until he realised that he'd left his wife standing on the sidewalk! Well - he didn't! He drove off and made a turn onto Portage. By this point we are laughing out loud. I asked if the child was strapped in properly and she answered yes....and that he would probably notice she wasn't there the first time the kid made a noise! I have laughed over this for the last two days. Today someone sent me the JC Penney Doghouse commercial and all I could think of was this guy!

Well, off to do 'stuff'.....I hope you have a wonderful day!

Barb