Our Thanksgiving

Ahhh Thanksgiving with your turkeys and sweet pies! Ahem. And Thanksgiving of course ;-)

Somehow, somewhere along the way, I decided to have a small (tinsy tiny) Thanksgiving lunch and invite two other friends along. It had to be tinsy tiny because Chris was working (I wanted to throw a full blown dinner and invite a few more people but we had to go to a building job at 7:00pm), and we don't have a real dining area, and my oven is one of those little single tray things that can cook a maximum of six cookies at once. Thanksgiving morning I woke up at 6:30am and had the oven going right through until 12:30pm just to make sure the food all got cooked! I kept thinking, "What am I doing?" And then I remembered that verse, "She hath done what she could" and the story of feeding the five thousand. I figured I'd cook what little I could and God could do the multiplication ;-)

Of course, two guests or twenty, I wanted things to be yummy and pretty. We had roast turkey (ok fine, it wasn't a whole turkey. All I could fit in the oven was one of those Thigh things that come frozen in a box. It worked!), roasted baby potatoes, roast pumpkin, honey buttered beans, fried baby carrots, roast corn, cornbread, and sweet potato pie.

Sorry this photo's fallen over but Blogger keeps doing that to me and I'm too tired to fix it, lol!

My favourite part was dessert! I wanted to be a little american and have something that Chris and I would associate with that part of our Life's Journey. So we had smores! I wrapped up little packages containing sticks, biscuits, marshmellows and chocolate (I had to melt down a big block and reset to get it thin enough - no Hershey's around here? What's up with that?) and laid out my long candleabra for us to melt our marshmellows on. Plus of course we also had a fruit platter, ahem. Which a certain Little Indian enjoyed very much...

For favours, our guests got a brown paper bag with a fancy label that read, "Thankful for You!" (and of course I forgot to take photos) each with six of my now-famous-Toll-House-cookies inside. And they were certainly lucky to get that many. Chris is still roaming around the cupboards looking for more!

For our Family Thanksgiving Tradition we have a Scrapbook, with the meaning of Thanksgiving and a page each for Daddy, Mama, and Manasseh to fill up with pictures of things that they are thankful for...

...and we have a Thankful Chain...

I laid two links at each persons place and between the main and dessert we each wrote out our  Thankful Lists onto our links. Then we looped 'em up and made a decoration! Soon I will take it down, unstaple each link and put them in a pocket at the back of the scrapbook. Every year we will add to the chain and we will look back and remember all the Thanksgivings that the Lord has allowed us and the friends that have come and gone.

So that was our Thanksgiving. It was small but it was fun :-) Next year, Lord willing, I'll have a real oven and Chris will have the evening off work and you'll all be invited! Ha! We can but dream :-)

Disclaimers: The drink is sparkling grape juice, lol. Seriously.

Disclaimer Number 2: Enjoying Thanksgiving in Australia means we can kick out the boring old oranges and browns. This year I picked a lavender purple and a lovely green :-D Then I got three bunches of pink roses for the table. Haha! Summer thanksgivings are the best!