Thanksgiving Gluttony

I'm finally pulling out of my food coma from Thursday night's excuse for eating until stuffed...and then having dessert! We had a yummy Thanksgiving dinner at the McLarty house...Dad cooked a juicy smoked turkey and amazing beer bread, Jan made a chestnut stuffing and cranberry sauce, I baked my yearly scalloped potatoes - a yummy butternut squash bisque - and some tasty green beans, Mom dished out a home grown citrus medley, Grandma baked an apple cake, and Dustin churned a home made ice cream!
I have no idea where I fit all the food that I ate, but it was fun to be with family and cook like mad! We finished off the evening by collapsing in front of the TV for a viewing of the Da Vinci Code...my opinion was: "Just read the book!"
It was a bit hard to stay awake through the whole movie even though I took a mid-day nap. My excuse is: I was awake at 6am to head over to Sperling Sports Complex to help registration at the Turkey Trot...and then I ran the whole 10 MILE Turkey Trot before breakfast! That's a long way down and back on Marsh Road...even though I took a detour at the .75 mile mark to run into the house for a bathroom-pit-stop (the line for the restroom at Sperling was a mile long and it wasn't like I was running for a big prize). I actually think my pit stop kept me from hurting myself like I did in last year's Turkey Trot...because I stopped for 5 minutes, I was not near the other people running my pace and I never felt like I was "in a race". Instead, I kept good form and cheered on all the people I ran past.
Today I got back to work on my cookie-baking-spree for the Children's Home Christmas presents. I've got to bake over 1000 cookies to fill the Christmas tins for each kid. Mom has chosen to tie-dye pillowcases and give each kid a new pillow and case. We are going to learn the 'official' way to tie-dye later this week...so I'll be more than ready when that fashion statement comes back 'in'!:)
So far, I've baked 6 types of cookies...regular chocolate chip and pecan; Christmas sugar; Cinnamon and sugar; white-chip brownies; pumpkin-pie spice; and Mom made sugar/pecan. I've got some Crunch Bars ready for my batch of Krispy's tonight...maybe tomorrow I'll find time for my Ying~Yang cookies and a ginger snap or butterscotch variety.