Happy Thanksgiving!!

Wish you were here!

Grandma and the kids:
Meanwhile, back, in the kitchen:

One of my favorite little Thanksgiving traditions around here is using my grandmother's turkey plates:
Having these on my table is the next-best thing to being back in my sweet grandmother's kitchen, where we made lots of great food and great memories. "Good groceries," my granddad would always say, and after the feast--and several desserts--we'd play cards late into the evening. He would always scheme against my Aunt Lynn to get first crack at the giblet gravy and oyster dressing, and he never, ever wasted any room on his plate with any green vegetables or my grandmother's fruit salad. It was all turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and cranberry--I mean really, why bother with any of that other stuff? All those Thanksgivings with my grandparents seem like just a couple of years ago...but really, they're now more like a couple of decades ago. It's bittersweet to think about, but how precious to be making new memories and traditions with my own family and my dear mom.

And what a perfect Thanksgiving we've had around here today! Guess what...my wonderful husband has cooked every single Thanksgiving dish all by himself, while I have basically hung out like one of the kids! Pretty cool, huh?! Everything was and is perfect, perfect, perfect.


What a wonderful day--wishing you the same!!