The first Thanksgiving

We have had quite a holiday week around here! Things are gearing up in the world of retail where Christian and I both spend a good amount of time, catering to the masses, doling out advice for the computer illiterate, and kitchen illiterate, alike. We got a welcome break for the growing chaos last weekend, however, when we met up with our dear friends Lyra and Jen at Country Village in Bothell, WA for the annual Holiday open house. Country Village is a delightful little cluster of shops and cafes right in the middle of a very busy area. Since this is the second year we've made this a priority it is now deemed tradition. We meet for breakfast at the Country Cafe then move on to the scavenger hunt, with which we rarely follow through. Then it's time to shop, maybe get some Ultimate Hot Chocolate and make a stop at the kettle corn stand to watch and taste the warm salty sweet goodness! It was a great day and had I not been going in to work that evening we'd have had an early Thanksgiving Dinner at Jen's. The few days following were fairly uneventful, but that was soon to change for the worse...

On Tuesday evening this week, Christian wasn't feeling too well and had been fighting a cough for weeks. He started to have some back pain and was running a fever. No good could come from any of this. Christian's dad took him to the ER while I stayed home with West and I soon got a call from Christian telling me he had bacterial pneumonia! So...he was given IV antibiotics and a prescription and sent on his way with instructions to rest, load up on fluids, avoid breathing directly on anyone and wear a mask around us at home for the next couple of days. Needless to say, Thanksgiving was postponed. We decided to move the family dinner to Saturday and hopefully by then we'd all be able to have dinner together and relax, and all of us being together was especially important since Christian's sister, Kaijsa was in town for a short visit. Next? We get a call about my father-in-law having to go in to the doctor for a fever, chills, etc. He ended up at the ER with other symptoms but was told with rest and lots of fluids, he'd be fine in a day or two. What was up with this holiday!???

In the End, Westley's first Thanksgiving was held on a Saturday minus his Grandpa, among others we missed, the turkey took longer than expected to cook, and everyone was exhausted, but in the end the food was delicious, the company delightful and the day itself, just one more thing to be thankful for.


Hopefully, all of you had a lovely Thanksgiving filled with variety, fun
and much to be thankful for.








Oh, another first...West finally got the real crawling thing down!
He's a little wonky yet, but he's so adorable while he's learning, so determined too,
and watching him is always good for a lot of laughs!