Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Thankful
During dinner today, I asked everyone what they were thankful for. The responses were so much fun!
Jonathan: Jesus, because he's the most important. Our cat, chicken, and flowers.
Thomas: . . . *crickets* . . .
Josiah: I'm thank-you for Christmas!
Gabe: Five Iron Frenzy!
I'm thankful for my family of boys who make me laugh so often. :)
Thanksgiving
"...It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Stated States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth."
Abraham Lincoln
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thanksgiving!
This song has been part of our itunes playlist today. Love it.
We had intended to spend Thanksgiving with my family (even my sister, flying in from Boston!) but a really bad storm in Nevada County left my parents without power and water for the foreseeable future. So instead, we had our very first Thanksgiving entirely on our own! It all came together really well, and I'm quite proud of myself. :)
Jonathan created this centerpiece for our Thanksgiving Day table. Isn't it nice? The boys picked out their favorite gourds at the store yesterday. Then on the way back, we stopped in a residential neighborhood full of lovely liquid amber trees, and ambled around finding the most beautiful colored leaves and "prickly balls."
Today we dipped the leaves we collected in beeswax to preserve them. They turned out quite well! I found a post at Small Things that convinced me to try it - the result was so pretty and she made it sound easy...and it was!
I managed to smile while washing the turkey. This is definitely a first for me. I must be growing up or something. :)
Thomas thought the trussed up turkey was hilarious!
Josiah and Thomas helped make the pumpkin pie filling. I've found that it is easier to move the mixing bowl down to their level, rather than having them stand on chairs to reach the counter.
Jonathan played softball with Daddy,
and later he helped set our beautiful table. He was very proud.
Josiah spent a surprisingly long time standing beside me while I was cooking, carefully using my Grandma's salt spoon to transfer salt between a silver shaker and a crystal salt cellar. He was so careful and gentle and precise.
The turkey followed most of the rules and browned nicely
and my number-one turkey carver did a great job! :)
I managed to get everything finished and warm at the same time!
The boys practiced their very best table manners, because dinner was a "special feast!"
We finished off with the most amazing pecan pie that I have ever tasted. Instead of corn syrup, it is made with maple syrup! I added chopped pecans to the filling, and then put the traditional pretty layer of whole pecans on the top (Sarah, I thought of you as I added all those pecans!) It was incredible...quite possibly the perfect pecan pie.
And after all that? I collapsed on the couch and let the boys "tuck me in" to bed. :)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
We had intended to spend Thanksgiving with my family (even my sister, flying in from Boston!) but a really bad storm in Nevada County left my parents without power and water for the foreseeable future. So instead, we had our very first Thanksgiving entirely on our own! It all came together really well, and I'm quite proud of myself. :)
Jonathan created this centerpiece for our Thanksgiving Day table. Isn't it nice? The boys picked out their favorite gourds at the store yesterday. Then on the way back, we stopped in a residential neighborhood full of lovely liquid amber trees, and ambled around finding the most beautiful colored leaves and "prickly balls."
Today we dipped the leaves we collected in beeswax to preserve them. They turned out quite well! I found a post at Small Things that convinced me to try it - the result was so pretty and she made it sound easy...and it was!
I managed to smile while washing the turkey. This is definitely a first for me. I must be growing up or something. :)
Thomas thought the trussed up turkey was hilarious!
Josiah and Thomas helped make the pumpkin pie filling. I've found that it is easier to move the mixing bowl down to their level, rather than having them stand on chairs to reach the counter.
Jonathan played softball with Daddy,
and later he helped set our beautiful table. He was very proud.
Josiah spent a surprisingly long time standing beside me while I was cooking, carefully using my Grandma's salt spoon to transfer salt between a silver shaker and a crystal salt cellar. He was so careful and gentle and precise.
The turkey followed most of the rules and browned nicely
and my number-one turkey carver did a great job! :)
I managed to get everything finished and warm at the same time!
The boys practiced their very best table manners, because dinner was a "special feast!"
We finished off with the most amazing pecan pie that I have ever tasted. Instead of corn syrup, it is made with maple syrup! I added chopped pecans to the filling, and then put the traditional pretty layer of whole pecans on the top (Sarah, I thought of you as I added all those pecans!) It was incredible...quite possibly the perfect pecan pie.
And after all that? I collapsed on the couch and let the boys "tuck me in" to bed. :)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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