Like many families, we share holidays with the in-law side. This year Thanksgiving belonged to the other side of the family. So we planned on a smaller scale Thanksgiving. At first. But daughter-in-law Dorothy (son Reed's wife) said her children really wanted a Thanksgiving dinner with us. Son Ben said he had to work on Thanksgiving. It warmed my heart that my children wanted to celebrate together. So we made special arrangements. We decided to do our Thanksgiving celebration on Saturday. We had burgers on Thursday.
We invited some extra guests to join us on Saturday so we had 25 people for dinner. The usual menu prevailed. We are creatures of habit now. We must have turkey, our special jello, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, homemade rolls and, of course, pie. We are a pie family. It was fun. Even though our dishwasher is not working at the moment (the electric one), things went smoothly and the clean-up wasn't all that bad. I'm trying to cherish these family get-togethers, especially now that we are going to move.
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| Our Thanksgiving set-up, before the gang arrived. |
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| Grandson Bruce enjoying the view. |
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Who needs games and movies when you have ipads? They
provided the after dark entertainment. |
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| Granddaughter Abigail, dabbling in her dinner. |
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| Grandson Jonathan's after dinner activity. |
Well, we thought we were going to move right away. But it is a good idea not to build a kingdom around something like this until it is really a sure thing. Our potential buyers appear to be edging out of the sale. So, maybe we haven't sold our home after all. My mind moves back and forth between Boise and here. I'm trying to be flexible with my mind-set. But it's tricky.
I'm grateful that we have pleasant alternatives in any case.
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