Thanksgiving whirl

Several months back, I felt the Lord put it on my heart to host our first Thanksgiving dinner for our family in our home. Over time, it grew and became an event that would have 17 people in our home for Thanksgiving day. I had also decided that I wanted to do all the major cooking on my own, despite the women of the family loving offering their help. This was something I needed to do on my own, at least once. Well, I cooked and cooked all day Wednesday and Thursday. What resulted was a beautiful dinner with all of our quite mixed family laughing and enjoying each other on one of my favorite holidays. Everything turned out lovely and I was quite excited. The family decided that I was such a wonderful hostess, that I was elected to do the task of hosting Thanksgiving every year. Despite the flattery, time will tell if I really will do this again. I had a blast but I haven't been this exhausted in quite some time.



The food on the counter is probably about half of what I prepared

 Some of our beautiful family that was able to join us for dinner

 

A job well done