Best Thanksgiving Ever

From a random chat

you know those ginormous pots of mums that are at the grocery store for super-cheap starting around halloween and hanging on until thanksgiving?

One Thanksgiving Day, I was b o r e d and wasn't on a plane to somewhere NotHere.

So I took an orange sheet (orange was all the rage then) and bought a bunch of mums. Cut the flowers off and put them in a basket (baskets, too were all the rage--people had actual basket parties! it was a weird time in America). I wrapped myself in the sheet, took the basket, and walked into the airport as though i belonged there, handed out flowers to the pilots and stewardesses (you could still call them that back then) and said "thank you for working today so families can be together."

best thanksgiving i ever had

might do it again this year.

Thanksgiving

 

Vivian and I hung out in the arboretum this afternoon, playing Tokaido (she won, of course) and enjoying the crisp fall day. We goofed around in the maze and turned the wooden bench into a beautiful Autumnal Conservatory with the roll-out piano.

So much to be grateful for, even with all the chaos and uncertainty. 

Thanksgiving

Vivian loved the hat.
We had a ball with Playmobil, cookies, reading, and tea.

Collective nouns: Paladins and butterflies

A crusade of Paladins.

A chaos of butterflies.

Throwback

Thanksgiving 2014

Cards

November

Thanksgiving Break

Trimming the crust

Filling the pies

Making a fire

At home workout, because the gym was closed.

Playtime

Playtime

The Bird (note the pie)

Dinner

The face of defeat

At the Co-op

Library Day

The explosion of personal effects happened over the course of two days.

Making plans, writing letters, and being art

Making poundcake

Family Movie: A Bug's Life

(Do not tell anyone that I was barefoot in the kitchen) making frosting.

Morning After: French Toast

Planning with the first seed catalog of the year

French Toast

In the village

Measuring her dress-in-progress (beginning of skein 3)