December 25, 2009

  • ~HOLIDAYS~part one~Thanksgiving~

    Thanksgiving 2009

    We had loosely planned to spend Thanksgiving in Missouri this year, since it had been several months since we had been there to visit.  Chris had to work, so we were making our own plans...  Then I discovered that with the rest of the family out of town, my Grandma, who turned 92 this year..  would be eating alone. 

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    Which would have made me really sad.  So we scrapped our travel plans and decided to stay and eat with her.  Also, we were thankful to be invited to eat with our Fannin family, with Chris out of town, but they were more than understanding. We missed all of you!  But sometimes the best things come from changed plans.

    Since it was just her, Austin and I, we did not have the traditional all day prepared, 50 pounds of leftovers, gluttony of Thanksgiving food.  Which I won't lie, I do enjoy.. But I decided to make her famous chicken tortilla bake that we all grew up having at her house, and at church dinners.  I had forgotten that it is so easy to make.  Chris is now a huge fan of it too.  Austin is still in the finicky stage so he opted for apples and cheese and graham crackers. Yes, he's crazy.

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    Throw in some gooey pumpkin butter cake for desert and yummy yum yum.  It was such a great, relaxing day.  The weather was so nice outside.. Austin was able to wear shorts! He was needing a haircut!

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    He played and did all of the things he likes to do at her house.  It warms my heart that he has gotten to know her.  Their paths won't have crossed for too long in this life, but hopefully he remembers her when he grows up and the love and fun at her house.  And some things that he's learned by being around her.

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    He knows all of the things he can play with and what he can't.  Coins in a glass candy dish with a lid, wooden spools in a little ceramic house with a lid, the broom, the phone, some little hot wheels that she has collected at yard sales over the years from the curio cabinet..

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    He likes to talk on her bedroom phone..

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    I asked him to hang up before that annoying busy signal that blasts your eardrum came on, and he said, "Mommy, I'm waiting for to talk to the lady." (The lady that says, "please hang up and try your call again"-haha)

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    We did puzzles, one of my g-ma's favorite pastimes, and one that Austin likes too..

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    Above is a puzzle from Chris's mom that we put together that day, and below is Austin's new puzzle that we brought to do just for that day. My g-ma is on the phone with my uncle from Missouri who called to wish her a Happy Thanksgiving.

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    Then, naps were had by all.  A three hour one by this sleeping boy!

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    It ended up not being the Thanksgiving that we had anticipated a month or two prior, but I felt very blessed to be there.  At 92, I know that we won't have many more of these times together and it ended up being just the best happy day!  We did miss Chris, though.. and both sides of our family.  The only way the day could have gotten any better would have been if they were there to share it with us!

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