A neighbor told us she saw us through the window as we sat at the Thanksgiving table and that it looked like a Norman Rockwell painting. Well, the food was very traditional, tasty in the main, and everyone enjoyed each other, so maybe?
(We’ll definitely be skipping the TikTok method of peeling potatoes in future!)
For some reason, I’ve been mildly obsessed with tree lightings. Faneuil Hall! Tuesday at 5! There’ll be hot cocoa! No one else was interested. Not even in the Festival of Trees at Elm Bank? No, not even that (at $20 per person, it was easy to let go of).
For that reason, I was hyped during a jaunt to the North End to see the lights at Christopher Columbus Park. I believe it’s still called Christopher Columbus Park even though his statue is gone. Photographing the bare monument-pedestal on Native American Heritage Day offered poetic justice, while a nearly full moon rising over the harbor gave us a kiss of beauty.
Four of us had rushed to the North End to tour the Paul Revere House (closing at 4:15) which come to find out consisted of two rooms and a diorama (a very cool, very detailed miniature silversmith shop of a diorama, but still). We were back on the street in no time and freezing in spite of walking at a good clip between sheltering buildings. There’s the statue of Paul Revere! Hustle, hustle. There’s the Old North Church! Copp Hill Cemetery was somewhere but we never made it because by then K and I decided to head home. The kiddos had to withstand the cold, however, for something like two more hours to make their dinner reservation (there might’ve been a birthday involved).
A Bruins game made getting back onto the Pike hellish, but the sky was beautiful and the heated seat was on high (aaaahhhh).
Having the boys back is the most natural thing in the world, familiar and lovely, but having them gone and far away is now also familiar, comfortable. It’s a weird mix. I’ll tell you this though — Finn is visibly relieved to be the only child again!
What a beautiful table scene! My first thought was now you are a table adults! My how time travels on! Great pics, but I do wonder what is being looked at down in the water? And the pedestal is most certainly a statement as is! I am glad you ahd this family time and chuckled at Finney’s point of view!! lol Good dog Finney!
~Nancy
The water was pretty shallow there. Not much to see really but you couldn’t help looking.
“Table adults”! Funny. K and I never eat at the table anymore (if without company). Does that make us “couch people”?
It does look like a beautiful family Thanksgiving. It must have been great to have the boys home, Finn’s out of joint nose notwithstanding.
It really was great. Although we’ve seen them when traveling west, we hadn’t all been here together in many years. I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving as well, Dana.
Your table settings with all that yummy looking food .. good wine and love of family all looks wonderful! I’m so happy you all had a great time. I was a bit worried with all the weather reports .. good that it did not interfere with your Thanksgiving gathering.
We lucked out with the weather. The day after the kids arrived many, many flights were canceled. They made it back okay too, in fact D sat next to a pilot who showed him some cool United maps.
Joy comes in many ways and to see these photos, is to see Joy and most of all, Love, in action: To have your boys home, well that is what it means to give thanks..To bring to the table, foods that are traditional, some that may be new, that is what is means to give. Thanks and giving: .a table that presents a feast for all of our senses, loved ones gathered around, knowing that when morning comes, your boys would come down the stairs, “foraging” around the frig, breakfast on their minds
I don’t know if you did this, but when our family comes, after a long absence, I get up after everyone has gone to sleep and just check on them and that is when my gratitude overflows…
Family- what an abundance of blessings. So happy for you Dee that you were joyfully blessed this holiday.
I didn’t get up and check but I had that old vigilance about them getting home at night that I had throughout their high school years.
Couch people .. I have a perfect thanks and giving gift for people just like yourselves. I thank Marti for that thanks and giving line. Yes I definitely see myself visiting the post office very soon x