Thanksgiving Reading!

Had a great time at Thanksgiving.
I brought the flowers (with specific orders about where to go to pick up the flowers!)

But my other contribution is kind of unofficial.
I’m the children’s coordinator.
Granted, these children don’t need much coordination.
Everyone there had a brother or a sister nearby,
and was used to playing and keeping themselves entertained.

Still, I had some ideas.
I started a Thanksgiving guestbook.
My friend hosts Thanksgiving at her house every year, and I thought we should make it official.
There were pages for everyone to sign, including prompts like:

Where did you come from for Thanksgiving?
(my friend’s son wrote, ‘From my room’ because Thanksgiving was at his house!)

What did you make or bring for Thanksgiving?
(sample response: “I carried the beans”)

One word to describe Thanksgiving…
(favorite response: Thanksgiving. Someone’s a bit literal!)

What was your favorite thing to eat?
(It was a tie between the turkey and the cranberry ice, a kind of cranberry slushie)
and a traditional sign in sheet.

Everyone filled them out, including the adults, then we’ll add in some drawings and pictures we took from a disposable camera that I let the kids take turns taking pictures with.

My favorite part
BESIDES posing for this picture….

was when we came in from outside.
I plopped down on the couch.
“I’m kind of tired,” I said. “I think I’m gonna read for a bit.”

Now, I brought a bunch of my favorite pictures books for this very reason.
I picked up this one:

and started reading.
After the first page, I looked up to find that all 7 children,
including  two 12 year olds,
were squished on the couch, hanging on my every word.

We read half the picture books before, and half of them after the dinner.
We did lose the 12 year olds a few times, but I did notice that sometimes they’d just be listening, standing nearby.

It was about as close to magical as you can get.
And it was such a nice way to spend Thanksgiving.

Here’s the list of books read on Thanksgiving, and hope everyone had a great day!

Hope you still have some leftover turkey!
I just came back from leftover turkey soup with the Thanksgiving family…yum.

And where was Singe Singe during all this you may ask?
Sitting on the couch.
Being passed around by the youngest children.
RIGHT WHERE he loves to be.

Enthusiastically yours,
KE and SS