This was a very quiet Thanksgiving in our house with all of our families either traveling or otherwise occupied--(selling the family home and moving). Which, I for one, will not complain about. Life can be hectic, so we were happy to stay put this year.
Our weekend was filled with sunshine and warm sunny weather with a high of 22 degrees Celsius on Monday! It practically felt like summer! But the leaves told us otherwise. We got out for a bike rides along the trails near our home and the leaves were stunning! There were tons and tons of milling walking the trails with cameras in hand trying to snap photos and capture the firey orange-red beauty of the leaves skirting the waters' edge.
Aside from all the "cliché" things that I am thankful for (a wonderful life, a supportive and happy marriage, my beautiful children and our good health) here are a few extra things I am thankful for this year:
1) The cousins who live in Toronto and descended upon our home for Thanksgiving dinner, arms laden with all sorts of delicious food, including a yummy often-made and often-favorited kale salad, homemade pies and the like. Oh, and wine! Lots of bottles of yummy wine.
2) Friends who live in Toronto, who had no family around and also crashed at our house! And made the most amazing gravy I've ever had!
3) Five little ones who ran around the house adding a vibrant and lively tone to the celebrations--chanting for chocolate milk and pounded the table with their forks while calling joyfully for PUMP-KIN-PIE, PUMP-KIN-PIE! I am always so happy to lean into the chaos that are our young excitable children.
4) Leftovers, and such lovely yummy leftovers! (I know, it's the small things).
5) This incredible weather and vibrant leaves. I just know it's going to be enough to get me through this long, dark winter.
6) The internet! (Thanks to modern technology we got to skype and chat and see pictures of our families' thanksgivings). So while it might seem a little frivolous and luxurious, I am very thankful for these abilities to connect with people all over the country when we can't be everywhere we want to be.
.... And thanks to the mountains of food, many family members and what felt like a million children (even if there were only five) I was way too in the moment to get ANY photographs. Which, admittedly was a bit liberating, but now I am just a little bit sad we didn't capture any of those moment with the kids banging their forks on the table. Or crawling all over Clifford's leg begging for chocolate milk, or Frankie covered in cranberry sauce leaving little adorable fingerprints on the white cotton tablecloth (which did come clean, btw). Or the big beast of a 20 lb turkey.... These fond memories will just have to be written down rather than captured in a photograph.
Hope your Thanksgiving was sunny and warm, if not outside, then in your homes!
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