We had two Thanksgiving Days this year. Back in September our church had one together. There was a special church service, with a focus on thanking God even in the midst of darkness. Also, we wanted to remember and thank the people who are defending us. So, after church we had lunch together, and then we sold deserts to raise money for something Den’s brigade needed.
I made a lot of pumpkin pie for that sale, but our kids said that we still needed turkey, so this year we actually celebrated American Thanksgiving in our family on the same day as people in America did. We woke up that morning to another big attack (hello air defense explosions!) and went from “just two hours without electricity, that’s not bad” to emergency outages and then three hours off and three hours on for the rest of the day and night. Still we pulled together all the special foods. We actually started off with pie for lunch, since Asya had an orthodontist appointment and Bogdan had art class, then we had turkey and everything else late in the evening when they came back. It was a lovely holiday, and we thoroughly enjoyed the good food and time together.
I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving (or two).
