Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving

This may shock you, but nobody in Nigeria knew it was Thanksgiving and only a few knew it was Jack’s birthday yesterday!  But, we made the most of it. 

 

We can thank the team for leaving some Kraft mac and cheese.  We had that, with hot dogs for lunch.  We also thank the team for leaving a yummy chocolate box cake WITH icing WITH sprinkles WITH ice cream dand WITH those awesome candles that keep re-lighting.  We celebrated Jack at lunch and he got a few presents he is happy with.  Later we put up the thankful tree.  We still have a pile of leaves to write on and tape to it, but it is off to a great start, as a reminder that every good thing is from God.  We had Phyllis and Ubong (along with Steph and Aaron) join us for a fine thanksgiving meal.  Roasted chickens that we just decided to think of as turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, fresh carrots, cucumbers and green peppers to go with the yummy jalapeno hummus Phyllis brought back from the US, and bread.  We thank Steph’s Grandmother for sending pumpkin pie spice, Shelley for the Crisco, Nana for sending Stevia (helps Ben a little, although I must say Thanksgiving is hard on a little diabetic), and Abdulkadiri for growing and selling pumpkins (what we would call ghost pumpkins, so no quite pie pumpkins) It did taste like pumpkin pie for dessert!  It was the first time a big pile of bananas was on the Thanksgiving table – but that may become a new tradition for us, to serve as  a reminder of a simple time when we were strangers in a foreign land, happy with some familiarity from home, but definitely missing everyone at home.  We played some games and talked about what we were thankful for.  It was a wonderful holiday – even without football or a parade. 

 

Great big blessings on all of you!

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing that. Really..... I read every blog and I'm often left with things to think about. :-)

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