For Thanksgiving this year we went to Laurel and Roine’s. Laurel just had foot surgery and is in a cast and didn’t want to have to go anywhere, so we all went to their place. Roine had cooked two turkeys. He smoked one, and the other he deep fried. Laurel’s friend Tanja was visiting from Germany and was there as well. The kids had a great time playing with cousins as they always do, and Kyle and I had a tough time trying to keep Lydia in the living room. She did get out once, and just as I asked Kyle to go catch her before she gets to the stairs, we heard a loud thumping going down the stairs, and I just knew that was her. She was fine but it really scared her (scared me too…). The food was all good, and everyone had a good time and we left to come home entirely too late. 🙂
Today we did our own turkey dinner. I like to do our own thing, despite what we do with the extended family, because I feel like we need to be establishing our own family’s traditions and make sure we keep them. I don’t want to always rely on doing something with the extended family, because what happens when we, or they, move too far away to get together for every holiday? And besides, I really like having the turkey leftovers to make other meals out of. So we had a feast of our own tonight. Earlier in the week Debby mentioned that they would come out to visit on Thanksgiving. I told her that we weren’t going to be home, that we would be at Laurel’s, but that we would do our own thing on Sunday. So they came out tonight to visit and feast with us.
I am grateful that we were able to spend so much time with family this weekend, and I am grateful that we had plenty of food to have a feast to celebrate the season of giving thanks. 🙂