It was a peaceful and warm Thanksgiving in AR. I took a random assortment of pictures. Here goes.Mer made herself several pretend meals, and prayed before every one. She loves having unlimited access to Keddi's drawer of paper table settings.
Our family does party crackers at every possible occasion. You pull the ends, they make a popping sound, and out flies a tiny prize, a paper hat, and a little piece of paper with a really bad joke on it. This activity ensures that we look very sophisticated for the remainder of the meal.
Meredith painted ornaments. Uncle Mamoo is not one to miss such fun.
This holiday will be remembered by many as the year that Chris finished The Conspiracy of Fools - the story of the Enron debacle. It was about, oh, a million pages, and apparently it was incredibly compelling.
Here's Meredith and Mamoo at the appetizer table. Mamoo has cast his eyes heavenward in hopes of retrieving the meatball that he threw about 20 feet into the air. Meredith enjoyed her apps with a bit more sophistication.
This is what you get when you cross a 30-year elementary school teacher with a mom that wakes up at 4 in the morning...a carefully printed list of Thanksgiving assignments.
Mer missed the big Thanksgiving meal -- just crashed and didn't wake up til it was all over. But she woke up ready to go. Below, she's being a monster.
Happy with the pumpkin.
4 comments:
Sounds like you had a lovely Thanksgiving. Love Crackers, something we always have every Christmas !! Sean never wears the hats though...lol.
You do have to make a rule about everyone at least starting with their hat on.
The old school teacher mama
i'm thankful for that post. good one.
Oh the crackers - I have many a Thanksgiving/Christmas family dinner picture with the famous crowns too!! Your tree is beautiful too - ours is up and lighted, I just keep putting off hanging the ornaments even though I have such good "little hands" help!!!
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