This is the first Thanksgiving holiday where we dressed up. I don't mean we wore our church clothes, I mean we DRESSED UP. We were Pilgrims and Indians, much to the kids' delight. Dennis and I were in full pilgrim garb, Mirella was in her full Indian dress, and the others were wearing accents that denoted them as either pilgrim or indian. Several of the guys wore loincloths (over their pants) and headbands with feathers. Women wore aprons or hair coverings or both, and a couple wore indian headbands. We were a festive bunch this year! Dennis spent most of his day as a pilgrim, but switched tribes for awhile after dinner and donned an indian headband. He re-pilgrimmed later, though, and we had to peel the costume off his sleeping self when we got home tonight and put him to bed.
Oh, the playing! Michael told me he found Dennis and Mirella at the top of the stairs, attempting to tie a ribbon to Gran's bedroom doorknob, with the ribbon trailing over the balcony rail to the bottom floor. Were they going rapelling? And later he saw Mirella perched at the top of the stairs on a cardboard 'toboggan' while Dennis stood lower on the stairs to catch her as she sledded down the hill. I asked him about it tonight and he said "we don't slide down the stairs, Mommy, we only slide down slides or toboggan down snowy mountains" so Michael's lecture clearly got through to him. There was much loud running going on, and a game of croquet involving the wheelchair ramp that was pretty funny, but we worried when they got quiet!
We were all so thankful for our blessings today. This morning, Dennis gave me his thankful list as soon as he woke up. He said he was thankful for "the costumes that I wear, the music that I listen to, and the bubblegum that I chew". Well said. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone--hope your day was as wonderful as ours was.
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