Later Thanksgiving projects

Mom feels that the Thanksgiving experience at our house wouldn't be complete without our visitors doing something useful during their stay here. The family members who arrived later thought they had it made since they had missed out on the early projects. Wrong! We asked them to put up the Christmas tree and decorations both inside and outside. And of course we had to have the lawn mowed before we could put up Christmas decorations there.

Thanks go to Steven and Richard for mowing the lawn and setting up the decorations and Christmas villages.


Here is our front lawn and walkway.

And here is the Norman Rockwell village.

The middle-eastern creche.

And finally, the Christmas tree.

This year we included special ornaments for each of the grandchildren. Each one was a jeweled snowflake with the child's picture inside. We had hoped to make it even more special as they would hang it on the tree but realized that they were more interested in knowing how their picture got in there. They weren't getting on the tree.