Baby D's first Thanksgiving Day

The first thing in the morning I got the turkey out and started cleaning and marinating it. At the same time, I defrosted some grounded turkey meat to make spagetti for lunch. Alvin and Helen forgot to get the sweet potato and butternut squash, so after lunch they went out to get some from whole food.

I attended to the baby so Jenny could take her lunch. When she finished, I handed back Baby Daniel to her and started cooking the turkey at around 2:00 pm. I washed all the dishes and then started washing the vegetables, the sweet potato and the butternut squash. Meanwhile, Mark and Helen helped Jenny to move everything - all the baby gifts that had been lying around in the dining room, down to the basement. They set up the table and the new folding chairs that Alvin bought. The dining room looks much nicer now.

When Debbie's family came, they bought with them lots and lots of food. There was a big pot of soup, a big pot of pork and dried bean curd, a dish of vegetables and fish and stuffed bean curd and mushrooms, plus two bags of grapes and a pineapple. Boy, we had enough food to feed a whole army. The turkey turned out to be quite a success. We had a great dinner and hardly any room left for the pumpkin and pecan pies.

Baby D behaved well today with Daddy holding him all the time. He looked cute in his Thanksgiving outfit that Helen bought him. Believe it or not, he even folded his hand as if he was saying a prayer of thanksgiving. How cute!