Thanksgiving

Ah, Thanksgiving.  Such a lovely time.  The only thing that sucks about Thanksgiving is when it's over.

This year, Mike and I went down to Lancaster to his folks' place to have the best Thanksgiving dinner of all (the only thing that comes close is my friend Kari's Thanksgiving dinner to which we had the pleasure of inhaling last year).  I helped out a lot this year as I was the only "daughter" there.  Amy couldn't travel that far so Anna had Thanksgiving dinner at her place for them and a couple of John's relatives.  Joe and Jen were going to go to Jen's family's this year but three out of the four of them, Jen, Gus and Ava, had the flu so they ended up staying at home.  I must admit, and this is purely selfish, of course, it was nice in only one way...I got Mary to myself.  It was nice to help her cook and chat.

This Thanksgiving was no comparison to having the kids around though.  Luckily, we got up to Eau Claire the weekend before to see everyone (well, almost everyone...Kiki stayed at a friend's house so we missed her.  Cute side note though, a couple of days before we went to visit, Kiki texted me and said "I can't believe you are finally my aunt!"  I believe Grandma Spider - Mary, Mike's mom...it's what the kids call her...I assume because one of them when they were little couldn't pronounce Schrader properly - told her about my getting my wedding dress, which is gorgeous, by the way.  I wrote back that I would be soon enough.  I am very ecstatic, fortunate and happy to be entering such a wonderful, loving family.) and hang out a bit.  Hopefully most of them will be down for Christmas on December 12.  All in all though, it was a wonderfully lovely Thanksgiving...with all of the necessary leftovers, of course.  Mmm, mmm, good.

Now, if I could just get my hands on Kari's leftovers... :)