Life After Windbird, Day 103: Thanksgiving Feast Day, Number 1
Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Weather: Partly Sunny; High Temp 46, Low 32 degrees F
Location: At Home at the Studio, Falmouth, MA
Just like the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims spent three days feasting for the First Thanksgiving, the Goldpebbles decided they should do the same. We are having Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow with friends and on Friday the Goldpebbles are headed to Boston to have another Thanksgiving dinner with family. So in order to make this a three-day affair, we planned a day of feasting today. I was with the boys today while Heather and Jed went to work and we conjured up a feast day of seasonal ‘treats’. We started the morning with fresh fruit
and then things moved to the more decadent side of treats. We made thin gingerbread and pumpkin bread and used cookie cutters to produce edible fall leaves and pumpkins. We made acorns from mini-vanilla wafers and mini- and regular-sized Hershey’s Kisses.
And we made chocolate bark littered with sticks (broken pretzel pieces) and fall leaves (M&M’s). The boys really had a great time. Making the acorns was their favorite activity because when they made a mistake and got too much glue (melted chocolate) on the Kisses, I just told them to eat their mistakes. They loved that!
We did most of our feasting before lunch in hopes that all the chocolate would wear off by bedtime. I stayed for dinner and by the time I left they seemed to be settling into a family game night. Hopefully bedtime went smoothly. Tomorrow the boys will take their seasonal treats to Thanksgiving dinner with friends. There will be nine children there, so they can share their kid-friendly bounty.
Heather and I will spend tomorrow morning preparing side dishes for the Thanksgiving Day feast with friends and then we will all spend our afternoon visiting and feasting. Whatever you are doing for Thanksgiving, I hope you have a wonderful day.
