Thanksgiving

The monkeys made all of the decorations on the table apart from the ship itself.  They made the nametags, the pilgrims, the turkey and Indian corn , and it made me so happy to see it.   I think they were pretty proud too.

I used brown packing paper for the tablecloth, and the monkeys decorated that with markers. 

Owen’s drawings: a turkey, Plymouth Rock, The Mayflower, two pilgrims. (thoughtfully repeated on both the left and right side of his section so that people who are sitting there each are able to see all of the drawings)

Jack’s drawings: a volcano, a very tall man, an oval, a carrot growing sideways with the stem coming out… (all drawn with a sly look while Owen protested from the other side of the paper that none of the items had anything to do with Thanksgiving,  Owen finally decided that the oval could be Plymouth rock – I think more to comfort himself than anything else…)

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Uncle Marc being particularly useful… (to be fair - he did ask if he could help several times, but I never let him.)

Daddy making his famous scratch gravy…

Mama doing dishes sporting Jack’s apron.

Mamau and Grandma were also there.  But no photos of them…  None of Mamau because she first called the ship on the table a pirate ship, then the Pinta, Nina, and finally the Santa Maria.  Then she failed to immediately recognize that the name tags were Indian corn! (or maybe I took very few photos and I am feeling too sleepy to upload her exciting video just now.)

Grandma’s photos were taken on a funny setting and I didn’t think she would like them.  It is a kindness to leave her out in this instance.

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Owen asked several times where everyone was.  We had also expected Great-grandma, and our Great-grandpi (who couldn’t come because of sickness) and my sister and her girls.  They were all very much missed!