Someone mentioned at our Thanksgiving celebration today that November 22 is the earliest in the year that Thanksgiving can occur in the United States where it is set as the fourth Thursday in November. For me it couldn't have come soon enough as 5 out of our 6 children were able to make it to Sacramento (or already live here) so that we were able to have a grand celebration with 11 adults and 7 grandchildren. There was plenty of food for all as these pictures demonstrate.
A couple of the families had to travel this Thanksgiving morning so we had our dinner late and didn't really plan on doing anything special other than the family get together.
While we put the finishing touches on the dinner, the kids played outside on the newly installed trampoline at Ed & Tiffany's house. And those adults who weren't needed in the kitchen sat around and swapped stories.
We managed to have a good Thanksgiving without any visible hurt feelings or arguments or fighting except the little spats among the children that are expected. I'll take the next couple of days postings to tell about all the things we managed to put into the day besides sitting around eating.
What were Philip and Steven ('the children') spatting during Thanksgiving?
ReplyDeleteI had hoped the context would indicate that "children" in this case meant humans under the age of 18. English is a bit confusing at times.
ReplyDeleteI don't think any of my "children" (first generation offspring) had any spats.