Happy Thanksgiving

Good morning, it's October, and the second Monday of October here in Canada so it's Thanksgiving Weekend. For most that means Turkey weekend. It's tradition in my family to have the Turkey on Sunday because a lot of my family uses Monday for traveling home, with leftovers of course.
This year I've left the turkey in the freezer for Next Weekend because my inlaws are coming to visit. Next weekend is also AJ's birthday, it's going so fast I can't seem to keep these boys from growing up. He is having a birthday Party and it's going to be on Saturday afternoon. I'm just hoping I can get the house into a kind of order so that the kids don't think he's already spoiled. I have a hard time getting rid of toys here. I'm the kind of person that remembers where every single toy came from and when it was given and by who it was given.
He wants to have Pie for his birthday cake. I'm thinking I'll save that part for Sunday. I'll have cake for the birthday party.
Today though, since it's Thankgiving and we aren't having Turkey I'm going to bake up some muffins for the week's lunches. The boys have School On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week and I'll also ahve some of these muffins for the visiting inlaws since they like to hav esomething with their tea.
Recipe to follow, it's the very first recipe in the Jean Pare (accent over the e), Muffins and More volume in the Company's Coming cook books, it fits since I have Company COming!

Topping 1/4 cup brown sugar, 2TBSP flour, 2TBSP soften margerine, mix it up into crumbles but if it's a bit soft and pastish it works too,

Muffins,
1.5 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar(I've used splenda sometimes)
1TBSP baking powder,
1/2 tsp Salt (I've cut this to 1/4 tsp when I think of it)

1Egg
1/2 cup milk (I use skim)
1/4 cup of oil,(I sometimes sub in 1/8th of that in apple sauce)
3/4 cup of shredded apple, with or without peels, I peel them.

mix, pour into greased muffintins, I get about 12muffins, and then I top with the topping and bake at 400F (200C) for 20-25minutes, my old stove 18minutes work, my new stove is 22minutes.

If you can get them to cool before they disappear they freeze well. I'll throw them in small zip bags for kids lunches. They don't usually last that long if hubbie knows I made them. The trick for that is to bake them while he's at work, and the cook a meal after to cover over the apple muffins smell.