Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great! I actually managed to leave the fall decorations up so we weren't having thanksgiving surrounded by Christmas decorations. Wednesday was our annual Pie Night. I'm loving the tradition of gorging on pie before filling up on Turkey dinner. I'm so glad our family is willing to travel to see us for the holidays. It's was great that Mel can all the way down, we never get to see her enough! Bryan's mom Alice stayed the night and stayed for Thanksgiving day. It was great to have her visit and spend time with the boys. I don't think I mentioned she was great 2 weeks ago.
Ben's class to prep for Thanksgiving decided to have a Native American Thanksgiving. They have been studing Native Americans so decided to spend a few weeks learning how the Indians harvest food for the winter. They dried fish, made their own beef jerkey, gathered nuts and fruit etc. Bryan's mom was great she came down for a day, went into Ben's class and taught them all how to make Navajo fry bread and tortillas. She was great and talked about her life growing up hearding sheep, drying their own salt, growing their own food, etc. She just turned 71 and most of her life was spent on the Indian Reservation in New Mexico. They lived very traditionally in a Hogan no utilites, hearding sheep. Her father was a medicine man so she had an interesting life, very different from ours.
They kids all Loved the fry bread, and couldn't wait to eat the homemade tortillas for their Thanksgiving feast.
I didn't spend much time in Ben's class on their Thanksgiving day because I had volunteered to Host Brandon's class party. It was like pulling teeth to get enough parents to help with the dinner, and not one showed up in the class to do crafts or games, but the kids are a little older in his class so it worked out fine. It was funny, the night before the feast I sent out yet another mass email to the parents telling them we had no one to bring pie and it wasn't Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie. One parent said she would make a pie, so I was hoping it would be enough. When I got to the school the next day we had 7 pumpkin pies! 3 of them the HUGE Costco pies! It was hilarious. The kids got to eat all the pie they wanted and then some.