Thanksgiving 2014

We spent a quiet Thanksgiving at home this year, just the seven of us.

I guess you could say we started celebrating Wednesday.  The kids were off from school.  I had this genius idea to have each of them make one part of the Thanksgiving dinner.  It had a two-fold purpose:

1.) give us something to do on their day off.

2.) take the pressure of cooking off me :)  I'm no dummy.
(but apparently I am b/c I just tried to spell that like d u m b y.  Thank you spell-check)

Anyhow, I think they had fun practicing their chopping, peeling, baking, and general cooking skills.

Later that night we headed out to church in the snow and went to the vigil mass.  They held it in the chapel and it was a cozy crowd who braved the storm.  So many blessings to be thankful for, and our parish family is one of them.

We woke up Thursday morning to Dad cooking waffles.  The cook decided ice cream would make a good topping.  Good call.

Parade watching, snow playing, dinner prepping, table setting, and a walk in the woods was how we spent our day.

Dinner was delicious.  We were so proud of the kids' creations.  Our turkey was accompanied by


Billy"s Deviled eggs

 

 Mary's Garlic Mashed Potatoes

 Ann's Vegetable Turkey Platter

 Tommy's Stuffing

and Matthew's corn muffins and blueberry muffins.
(no pic of that, but here's another one of Ann's)

We didn't even miss the sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce I forgot to put out!!

There's always tomorrow.

It was a great, relaxing day.  There is an endless list of blessings to be thankful for, but again I am most thankful for the gift of nothing heavy weighing on my mind.

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!  I'm thankful for all of you, too.

 Gobble, Gobble.