Thanksgiving

Last tuesday, the 1st grade classes had a small Thanksgiving celebration during lunch.  It was a lot of fun.  Mommy helped the room mom for Joseph’s class make 60 oreo cookie turkeys.  One mom from another class provided turkey-cranberry-stuffing sandwiches.   Another mom baked pumpkin pies.  Since many of the kids in the school are not Americans, it was a fun way for all the kids to get a taste of a traditional Thanksgiving feast.

We also celebrated Thanksgiving as a family on Wednesday night since we were leaving on Thanksgiving Day to go to Hong Kong.  Mommy is pretty sure that this is the first Thanksgiving dinner she has ever made since we have always had Thanksgiving dinner with family or friends. Mommy roasted a chicken. We had stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, corn on the cob, rolls, cramberry sauce, fruit salad with a few local fruits thrown in (rambutan and mangosteen), and peach cobbler for dessert.  We also had 5 slices of grilled turkey cold cuts.  The cost was US $8 for those few thin slices of turkey so that’s all the turkey we had for Thanksgiving this year. We all enjoyed our Thanksgiving dinner although we missed being with family.  Mommy also really missed having pecan pie although the peach cobbler was really good.  One thing Mommy has been thankful for is that we were able to get almost everything we needed to have a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner even though we live far from the U.S.  

We feel so blessed and are very thankful for all our many blessings.