It went pretty well. We had a medium sized get together, about 19 people counting me, my husband, and our five girls. We played a little touch football because it was warm, which helped burn off some calories. And I'm going to bed soon to get up early tomorrow and go shopping.
We didn't make a scene, but one of our youngest two almost did! My father-in-law stopped by over dinner, and started talking about how we should say a blessing, and how people should say a blessing after every meal. One of the youngest says to him. The convo went a bit like this:
"Why?",
"You should thank god for everything."
"Why?"
"Well, god gave us all this great food."
"No he didn't. Daddy did!"
"Well, your dad wouldn't have been able to make that food if he didn't have good health."
"Then we'd be eating McDonalds instead."
"It's good to thank god for everything, because only through him is anything possible."
"That's stupid! I can hop on one foot without anybody's help!" (she then went and hopped around the house on one foot)
(This wasn't nearly as bad as when we visited one of my husband's cousins earlier this year, and everyone was talking. We were getting ready to leave, and another of my husband's cousins was trying to convince her brother to make his grandson do his schoolwork. And the other cousin just says "If he doesn't graduate from high school, God will provide." And our daughter, same one from before, says "Maybe God should have provided him a brain then!")
Our turkey was very juicy. But it took longer to cook than we thought because apparently our new stove cooks differently from the old one. Which we should have realized when my husband made the pumpkin pies yesterday, and they took a lot longer to cook. So we had our Thanksgiving meal a bit later than we thought we would.
Hope everyone else had a good Thanksgiving! I think we can all be thankful without being thankful to anyone in particular.
We didn't make a scene, but one of our youngest two almost did! My father-in-law stopped by over dinner, and started talking about how we should say a blessing, and how people should say a blessing after every meal. One of the youngest says to him. The convo went a bit like this:
"Why?",
"You should thank god for everything."
"Why?"
"Well, god gave us all this great food."
"No he didn't. Daddy did!"
"Well, your dad wouldn't have been able to make that food if he didn't have good health."
"Then we'd be eating McDonalds instead."
"It's good to thank god for everything, because only through him is anything possible."
"That's stupid! I can hop on one foot without anybody's help!" (she then went and hopped around the house on one foot)
(This wasn't nearly as bad as when we visited one of my husband's cousins earlier this year, and everyone was talking. We were getting ready to leave, and another of my husband's cousins was trying to convince her brother to make his grandson do his schoolwork. And the other cousin just says "If he doesn't graduate from high school, God will provide." And our daughter, same one from before, says "Maybe God should have provided him a brain then!")
Our turkey was very juicy. But it took longer to cook than we thought because apparently our new stove cooks differently from the old one. Which we should have realized when my husband made the pumpkin pies yesterday, and they took a lot longer to cook. So we had our Thanksgiving meal a bit later than we thought we would.
Hope everyone else had a good Thanksgiving! I think we can all be thankful without being thankful to anyone in particular.
