Mom's Letters: Thanksgiving 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

Everyone helped out with meal preparations; the little girls broke up the bread for the stuffing the night before and all the little kids helped me make rolls. They used cookie cutters to make their rolls more festive and yummy!

We had a great meal!

After enjoying a delicious dinner (our first made without any of our mothers in the house!) and a discussion about the things each of us are most thankful for this year, we invited the kids out front for a pie eating contest. It was the grand finale to a fabulous week, as Brett and the boys had to pull out that evening to head home, and the kids had a ball with it! The boys were completely white by the time we hosed them off.

2 comments:

alison huston said...: You are the coolest mom in the world. I'm going to let the boys eat pie like that next Thanksgiving.; November 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Ali said...: looks like you all had a blast. those boys will always remember that pie eating. I love Ashley's smile as she realizes what's going on! So cute!; December 1, 2009 at 8:27 AM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Monday, November 30, 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

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