What a lovely Thanksgiving we celebrated here at home. Holidays are always hard for us to be with our large extended family, so we have had to get used to spending them by ourselves. Usually Tony is working, but this Thanksgiving it was me. I got off at 10am, and hurried home to cook and spend the day with my family. I was a super procrastinator this year, surprise surprise. While I have had my kids Christmas shopping done for weeks, I did not plan Thanksgiving until the night before. So of course thawing a Turkey was out of the question. We had cornish game hens stuffed with oranges, garlic and onion. They were delicious but did not fill that void where the turkey should be. We had green bean cassorole, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, rolls, and sweet potatoes. The usual. Our friends Brandon and Racheal came over with thier son who is Addi's best friend. The two of them had a great time eating our Cornucopia. The night before I had a lovely conversation with Addi about cornucopias. She tried to pronounce it about 20 times and finally got it right. Then she asked, "Mom, what is a cornucopia?" and I told her, "It is a horn of plenty that we fill with all the things we are thankful for" and she says, "Wow Mom, that sounds really neat!" In the morning when I was adding all the fruit she kept asking if she could help with the cornucopia. Sure I said. "Mom! Let's put Icecream in the cornucopia!! And My Little Pony's and jumpropes!!" :o) Ahhhhh I love having a little girl. When it was Addi's turn to say what she is thankful for she said, "Mommy and Daddy and Baby brother, and Papa and Haha and my friend Julian!" Good answer Addi! :o) Little Kaden ate TWO plates of food. He was a messy happy baby. Sweet potatoes from head to toe and a big ol smile on his face!!
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