thanksgiving

We set the tables, but served the food buffet this year.  It worked better.   The random pictures, eyes closed, people chewing.  Whatever.  We were here and it was fun. Homemade pies Once in a while my camera does this, unbelieveable. This was the reward–I spent a whole day moving toys around, washed everything, all the […]

This was just for fun since it was so fun to decorate the play house for Halloween, might as well continue on with Christmas. Did a little baking for tomorrow And a little cleaning and we set up the tables and we’ll be ready Love, Mom  

Tables all set:   Beautiful day, easy company. Happy Thanksgiving, Love, MOM, aka Grandma, aka Val

We’ve been working on this all week, so today wasn’t too bad. Plus, we no longer have little kids in the house, so it is so much easier.  There are no messes to clean up, no fights to break up.  It’s very different.  As we worked, everything that needed a decision later went to the

Preparations take time, but we’ve done this before so we have a system.  Alicia’s pictures: Kirsten’s pictures: The end of the evening: Beautiful day–Happy Thanksgiving,  Love, Val

Pictures, not in order, of our very tiny Thanksgiving. The meal was delicious, and Thanksgiving is a challenge, so many individual food items, all hoping to get on the table at the right temperature, but we did it.  People were patient and kind, ate their food, didn’t complain. The pie on the left is one

 It was a beautiful day, snowstorm was all done by noon yesterday, so the roads were good, the sun was shining.  The company was easy going and agreeable.  People brought food to share, delicious.  We used to do name tags so we didn’t end up with too many kids in a row, hard to pass