Thanksgiving at Home

Our grandson, Nolan with a BIG bird!

One of the best things about Thanksgiving at this stage of my life is - I can stay home. I don't have to cook like crazy, I don't have to host a bunch of people. We just have our little family - three grown kids, two daughters-in-law and one toddler grandson. I have enough chairs and dishes for everybody.

There are no judgements, no timetable, and no expectations. This year we continued something we did last year - Thanksgiving brunch. We ate about 10 o'clock and by noon all was cleaned up, the dishwasher was humming away and our two sons and their families were off to their in-laws, to eat a traditional turkey dinner cooked by mothers who like to do that kind of thing.

Tom and I and our daughter, Sloan, settled down to relax and nibble on left-overs the rest of the day. We had three kinds of pie - pumpkin, pecan and red raspberry.

I just love it when my little family gets together. I know they love me without dragging a bunch of baggage along - and I feel the same about them. That's what I was thankful for this year. May this last for many years to come.