Laowai

I had a lot of fun planning and making our Thanksgiving meal. And the lovely group of friends that gathered around our table made it a wonderful day.

Bea rolled her eyes at me (which she seems to do that all the time) when I was setting the table early in the morning. She said I was over-planning, but she doesn’t understand that setting the table is my favorite part. My second favorite thing must be the smell of the house on Thanksgiving day.

Right as the turkey was coming out of the oven it started snowing! 

It kept snowing while we ate our meal.

Then, after we ate, we went outside for a magical walk with huge snowflakes that got stuck in our eyelashes. 

I had a nice quiet morning the next day with a cup of hot cider. I had to review my list of all the important things coming up – all the shopping and decorating and planning and baking.

And today I’m elbow deep in gingerbread dough – we’re having some friends over to decorate gingerbread men on Wednesday. I’ve been using my precious brown sugar and molasses. Stay tuned for pictures of gingerbread men.