First Thanksgiving with all 6 of us home!

It was Thanksgiving and... we were all - all 6 of us - SICK. So instead of getting our extended family sick we got a turkey and some potatoes and made our own little "feast" and all felt miserable...together...and enjoyed our dinner. Some in pjs, some not fully dressed, some not matching - you get the picture, right? 4 little miserable sniffling clingy sickies. 2 big miserable sniffling sickies cooking food and cuddling with 4 little sickies. That was pretty much the day. Besides the "blah" sickness - it was actually a nice day, a day to be thankful to God for. The night before our 6 year old rocking chair broke. Then while preparing dinner our blender smoked out - it's toast. I'm baffled. It wasn't old or over-used. All-well. This is Zephaniah's first Thanksgiving! It was a bummer not to be showing him to family members who were eager to meet him but again, we didn't want to show off our germs to our relatives with weak immune systems. So we just cooked our own simple dinner. Most of our meal was gluten-free, except for the stuffing. I even made gluten-free honey corn muffins - mmm! Arielle was feeling queezy because of her stuffiness so she mostly wanted cranberry sauce and not much else. Nathanael was THRILLED that he could eat most anything and ate most of his dinner. Evie started out picky and panicky about getting a tiny bit of mashed potato on her finger. By the end she was smearing it all over herself, between her fingers, on the table. She was going for it! Zeph, of course, would never dream of playing with it and ate all his food (which was already a double portion of what the other children were served) and then seconds...and thirds... we had to just help him transition from this wonderful yummy meal (I know, it's hard to end such yummy-ness! That's why Americans all over the place will go to bed stuffed tonight! LOL!) to the next thing, which was play time and then we tried on his silicone sleeve for a bit. He was a little curious and confused. He tried to get it off but not because he hated it - just because he wanted to see if he *could* take it off and of course had he been able to I'm sure he would have wanted to PLAY around with it. (if he hated it there would have been screaming and fit-throwing). That was followed by play with the batman mask.

Well, that was our Thanksgiving! Hope yours was blessed!