Steve's family eats Thanksgiving Dinner at High Noon. In fact, Steve's mom called me at 10:30 this morning saying she was STARVING and couldn't wait until time to eat! Since this was the first Thanksgiving I've hosted in the new house - and only the second Thanksgiving I've EVER hosted - I wanted to take loads of pictures. But I forgot. :::sniff, sob::: So you get my AFTER Thanksgiving pictures!
By 3 PM, we had eaten, cleaned the kitchen, finished taking the meat off the turkey carcass, and I had him in the pot making stock! Here's the cleaned up kitchen....
On my bar below, you can see the pies and other things that didn't have to be refrigerated, covered and lying in wait until we descended again for supper.
And here is my dining room. It was beautifully set with my china and my grandmother's silver. Now all of that is back in the china cabinet and the linens are in the laundry room.
And poor Brooke....here's where she spent Thanksgiving afternoon and evening.....
....in my bed, lying amongst the cats and tissues, because she caught a terrible cold while working as a counselor at "horse camp" earlier this week. It takes Louisiana a while to really get "into" winter - instead, it dips a toe in periodically and we have temperatures ranging from hot to cold and back to hot all within less than a week's time. And everyone comes down with a malady known as "The Crud" because of it.
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It is my favorite of holidays (and I've been crazily avoiding all the radio stations who have prematurely been playing Christmas music - it makes me feel like poor Thanksgiving is getting pushed aside). Here are a few of the things I'm thankful for this year....
- my faith - how people make it without Christ, I do not know;
- my family - how blessed I am with a wonderful husband and great kiddos, my parents and all my siblings, as well as in-laws who love me as though I were a daughter;
- the members of the armed services who selflessly put themselves in harms' way for our country's sake - thinking of them today brought tears to my eyes;
- and last, but not least, I'm thankful to be FINISHED building this house! Whew! It took way too long!
3 comments:
The house is gorgeous! I'm also amazed at how quickly you had everything back in order. I need to learn how to do that! I hope that Brooke is feeling better. It seems like everyone is sick this time of year.
So sorry Brookie was sick...I hate when holidays are passed that way! You sound like me on your picture taking - took all of the preparation pictures and none of the during ones ::sigh:: Those will have to do because, like you, it was only my SECOND Thanksgiving to host :-D
Ah... poor Brooke! That's no way to spend a holiday. And.. I think you must have taken those kitchen pictures a week or more before Thanksgiving. It takes me at least 2-3 days to get my kitchen back to normal after a holiday meal (LOL)...
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