Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I'm linking up here to share some randomness about the week.
Our Thanksgiving was...boring.
No cooking, no hosting, just relaxing.
And I was totally ok with that.
We started the day with a tradition we've loved for the past 20 years...Thanksgiving breakfast with faux-family. It's been a highlight of my life. My parents and their friends go to mass in the morning and then enjoy a meal together, parting ways in the afternoon to head to family gatherings. We always take a group photo and this may be one of the best we've ever captured.
Dinner was with my husband's family and was quiet and lovely.
I'm not a big fan of Thanksgiving food (gasp, I didn't have more than a mouthful of turkey, no potatoes and no dessert), but I enjoyed being with family. After years of forcing my husband to take tons of photos on holidays, I've been putting the camera away and letting others take shots, so I'll have them once they get shared on the Facebook.
Our highlight of the week was decorating our church for Christmas.
Since we rent, we don't decorate big time or outside.
I've gotten very sad about this in the past.
This little decorating adventure lifted my spirits and filled that need to decorate a big space.
Somehow I got roped into decorating the
'it belongs in a department store' tree.
Seriously.
I've always wondered how those trees get so beautiful.
By shoving tons of glittering stuff into it.
Now you know too.
My job was handing the decorations to someone, so I had little to do with this gorgeous tree.
But it was totally awesome to be with new friends the night before Thanksgiving.
I hope we do this every year.
I've already said that I'm not looking forward to being part of the de-decorating committee!
This week I'll be writing out my Christmas cards and doing some shopping. We've decided to really downsize this year - one decent gift for each person. It's not so much a money thing (welp, it kinda is, but that wasn't the motivating factor) but a desire to appreciate time spent with others. We pretty much had a calm Christmas last year, so we'd like to keep that simplicity going.
Oh, and I may finally get to make these this week.
5 comments:
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Sometimes quiet is nice! To be honest with you, I hardly even actually eat the turkey at our big meals, the white potatoes either.
Glad I read your post. Having a hard time "downsizing" the Christmas gifts and I so want to simplify, so this really helped. Thank you my friend. xo
sometimes boring holidays are the best ones :) always good to relax a little bit. and that christmas tree? GORGEOUS!
quiet ... color me jealous ... 26 for Thanksgiving and about 36 for Christmas plus throw in a new year party too ... hello January, please be kind ;)
LOVE the tree!
ack, my computer is linking my landing page and not my Miscellany post! Here it is ...
http://homeschool.bywordofmouthmusings.com/2011/11/miscellany-monday-on-nov-28th/
Beautiful tree! That's a really speical tradition your family has for Thanksgiving. I think simple Christmas gifts are best. The excess is overwhelming. It's really about spending time with the ones you love and making special memories. You can't really put a price tag on that or purchase it.
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