Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving during the three week "pause" for Covid was not drastically different from our Thanksgiving last year.  After our years and years of trying to stop and see everyone at three or sometimes even four different Thanksgiving dinners, we have embraced the fact that we don't mind having a relaxed, quieter day.  

Hailey made our traditional turkey cupcakes and made plates to drop off to her besties and their families. 

A recent tradition we did miss was going to the YMCA for their annual Turkey Trot that we have participated in the last several years.  The boys were still asleep so Hailey, Trent and I bundled up and did our own Turkey Trot in our favorite woods. 

My mom came over to eat with us but that was it.  Just the six of us.  Trent and I had done much of the cooking the day before so on Thanksgiving day we only had to roast the turkey and make the potatoes. 

Trent has become an expert at cooking turkeys.  I was also thankful that Hailey got one more year out of the the turkey shirt I made her. 

Due to Covid, we sat the boys in the kitchen just because they have been around other people and we didn't want to risk them sharing germs with my mom. 

Later that night after we had driven Grama home with plates of leftovers, we sat down to play an escape room game that we had purchased in Manistee over the summer.  

It was fun.  Not as challenging as a "real" escape room but some of the clue elements were the same.  

Hailey decided to play a little beauty shop and pull Daddy's hair back into a man pony tail. 

Since it was our first escape room game we had a bit of a learning curve to figure out.  We didn't "escape" in the hour they gave us but we managed to get out about ten minutes later.  We will definitely try one again.  The only downside to it is that it is a one and done thing.  You have to write on the cards and cut stuff up so once you finish it has to basically be thrown away.   It's hard because it's a quality game and you feel like you are being a bit wasteful. 

All in all it was a good day.  I am continuously amazed at how blessed I am to be able to live my life with my favorite people.