We hosted Practice Thanksgiving tonight. We invite our good friends over for a dinner together thanksgiving-style to celebrate the beginnings of the holiday season. We've done this for several years now and it's always a great evening.
Everyone brings a dish (shared across a list so there aren't duplications) and my husband makes the turkey. He worked hard on the turkey over the past two days (brining, cooking, etc.) and it's mostly gone. The other dishes were all homemade and quite good as well.
We had the great fortune of picking a date when our traveling friends were stopping back in town. We hadn't seen them since they left a month ago and everyone was happy to see them and hear all about their new life on the road with three children and two adults living in a forty-one foot rig.
There was wine, there was hot spiced cider, there was a growler of beer and there was a lot of food. The children ran around upstairs playing together, having all sorts of fun while the adults sat at the tables, eating and talking. It was a lovely evening all around.
The Big Boy Update: My son was absolutely thrilled when his friend, Gavin, came in the door this evening for Practice Thanksgiving. He and Gavin played for hours while the rest of the adults socialized.
The Tiny Girl Chronicles: My daughter was doing something and I wasn't paying attention. She was sitting on the floor and she was telling me something. When I said, "oh, is that what you're going to do?" She said, "it's all part of the plan." Where did she hear about the plan, I wondered?
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