Thanksgiving Plans

There is service (with communion!) on Thanksgiving Eve here at the White Church. It's a dual-parish event so the White Church is having the Brown Church over this year as it's their turn to host. Before service there is going to be a potluck. Yeah! We don't have any family visiting us this year so it will be nice to have a Thanksgiving dinner with our church family at least. The little children are going to sing a song before the service proper begins. I'm told that Evelyn actually sang during the rehearsal - blew me away! She never likes to sing unless it's her own song that she's made up (which she's very good at doing).
Our own Thanksgiving is going to be just the four of us and a modest meal. We have learned from past years to not "go all out" with the food since Ben and I will pretty much be the only ones eating it. The kids are not very fond of many of the typical thanksgiving foods. This year we asked Evelyn what she wanted to eat for her dinner and she said she wanted peanut butter and jelly. So the kid's menu is pb&j, some fruit chips (a special pick the kids wanted to have), and jello along with anything else they might like from the adult menu. There is simply no use forcing your kids to eat things they don't like on account of it being a different day of the year and in the process giving everyone involved a headache. And yes, we learned that the hard way. ;)
I hope everyone has a pleasant holiday!

Above picture: Evelyn and Dominic are enjoying a pile of leaves in our back yard - that's our garage in the background. The only time we bother to rake leaves in the country is when we want to play in them. :)