Happy Thanksgiving Week Y'all

Not sure how much posting will happen this week so I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone now!

Life as usual around here, since you know, the Pilgrims left England to go to America and so they don't celebrate Thanksgiving. And I would be lying if I said I wasn't sad about being here. I'm feeling a bit sad since we were in Texas this time last year and we celebrated Cerys' 3rd birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family in a span of 2 weeks. I know my parents are sad that we are not there and I'm sad my mom won't be cooking for us! I mentioned before it will be a scaled down dinner for us- for one my surgery is that morning, and Cerys has school as usual and then she has her last gymnastics class that evening. I'm going to do some cooking on Wednesday- like the pie and sweet potato casserole (YUM, I will try to not to eat the whole thing) that way I won't have to do anything after my surgery.

I've got some Thanksgiving activities planned for the girls, sorry but it's the teacher in me I suppose. I kept all my children's books from teaching so I pulled out my Thanksgiving ones today and we read one together. Then we made Indian or Native American hats complete with construction paper feathers and we made turkey's out of their little hand prints. Tomorrow we are going to make a Thankful Tree and who knows what else we'll do! Cerys has already asked why her friends at school don't celebrate Thanksgiving so we have had some funny conversations so far. (Also, they are practicing for their Christmas Nativity that the Nursery is putting on. This is a public community school that is very diverse. It will be interesting to hear sweet 3 and 4 year old children from Muslim, Hindu and other backgrounds singing about Christ' birth. Our daughter is definitely in the minority. I can't wait!)

Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to Y'all and I pray that you have a wonderful week. For my Dad and other teacher friends- enjoy your week off school!

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