Tuesday before Thanksgiving:
Breastfeeding ‘letdown’ started to come back in the middle of the night, and improved throughout the day.
I got bread made, chopped it and other things to make the stuffing for the Turkeys, and got one of the turkeys stuffed and roasted, and sliced, then vacuum sealed (much thanks to Frank for this), and the skeleton into a big pot to make stock and have that simmering with some extra celery overnight.
Have suffered with a migraine since a couple of hours after getting up. I did remark to my hubby on Monday that I wouldn’t be surprised if I either Woke up in the middle of the night with a migraine, or Woke up in the morning with a doozy of a migraine, or Got a migraine after waking up. Why? I had a weird feeling in my head for awhile, a definite ‘tightening’ – something I do notice before a migraine, but not always do I notice it, depending on what’s going on, and such.
The stress of the weekend before was fully a part of the migraines beginning, I do think. I don’t always get migraines that frequently, or in any sort of pattern really, that I can tell, but there are ideas as to why this one or that one came along, after the fact.
I did have the migraine under control, it isn’t my worst sort, but sickening when it is ramming itself into whatever I am doing, not able to ignore it at all. So in other words, Excedrin helped me during part of the day, but now it’s the middle of the night (Wednesday 4:30 am) and I am still awake after Baby Q woke me up at 3am to eat, and feeling so very, very ill. And I can smell that turkey stock simmering. Ugh.
On Wednesday proper I plan to:
Organize all the side dishes on paper, as to when to make what, and assign helpers to different tasks.
I want to get pie crusts made and put away for pies on Thursday.
Other than that, right now, I’m pretty much over-the-top feeling horrid with this migraine to think further about food or work. 🙁
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The Migraine I’ve had was much worse a little bit after I got out of bed this morning. At first it was not so bad, but got sickening after a few loud noises in the house (others) anf then Frank yelling for our eldest to come (he was in the basement w/the door shut, so DH used very big voice :veryshocked: ) … that was the last straw.
Since then the Excedrin I took again seems to have helped, for now. I have to get on with T. Prep & planning, and I pray that this migraine will fade away to nothingness soon.
My Migraine isn’t too bad now … and I’ve gotten the second turkey into the oven. We bought two turkeys, I forget exactly how big they are, the latest one is around 10 lbs, and the one from yesterday around 12 lbs.
I like to make two smaller birds so that there is plenty of all the meat, white and dark, and it’s usually moreso juicy with smaller turkeys. Also, using two smaller turkeys (instead of one 16 pounder or so) I can get more stuffing made …
which is my most-est favorite-est thing about the holiday! 😀