It took a lot of planning and lots of running around before-hand, but I made it a good thanksgiving. I cooked (with Logan & Jordan's help) roasted turkey, cornbread stuffing, turkey gravy, homemade orange-cranberry sauce, mixed vegetables (real ones, not frozen or canned), real mashed sour cream & onion potatoes, sweet potato casserole, pumpkin pie, vanilla cheesecake, homemade thumbprint cookies and fudge we'd made last week and frozen.
We played cards, ate together, laughed together, Tim took the younger two for motorcycle rides, brought Adam to a parking lot to practice his driving (can you believe he's almost 15?!), we looked through past Christmas' scrapbooks, made homemade ice cream with the kids, went to church the night before, started filling out Christmas cards, and even found time to relax and watch the football game. Oh yeah, we put up the Victorian tree too!
Now we begin planning Christmas. It's definitely going to be low-key, peaceful, and not some commercial whirlwind of complaining. We're focusing on what we want to give, not what we want to get. The kids are catching the vision.
Lots of baking still to do, and shipping boxes to find.
It's going to be great.
