Turkey Day

(Turkey drawing by Lincoln.)

Bright and early, we gather to the kitchen...

Before:
And after:

But the highlight of the meal was the Thanksgiving Jar. For a week prior to the meal, we all wrote on little slips of paper the things for which we were most thankful.

Then at dinner, we read them outloud while we were eating. All ten thousand of them. It took five hours (slight exaggeration). Laura submitted the most. Here's here pile:

I submitted, like, ten, and felt "unthankful" by comparison. But who has time to be thankful when one is making a thousand side dishes, you know? Okay, here are our favorite submissions:

1. My picturesque mother who had eye surgery this week and therefore did not figure into our photos: Shade, red roses and date nights.

2. Steve: competant junior residents, rigid fixation, and citizenship

3. Jenn: Redbox, diaper wipes, ibuprofen

4. Laura: land, rugs, and the English language (It was hard to narrow her list down, I tell you!)

5. Lincoln: Thursday, windows and monkeys

6. Isaac: Me (as in, himself), Katelyn (?), and guns (???)

Noelle took a nap the entire time.

Here's the pumpkin pie I made when I should have been filling out "thankful" slips. Also, here's a picture of Isaac wearing his favorite shirt. Right before the meal, he told Grandma he was hot. She advised him to take off his sweatshirt, but he told her he wore it for "fashion reasons" because it made him "look cool". Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving!