Like many people we watched some of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and then let Gregory watch his first Christmas movie - The Star of Christmas (a Veggietale movie).
After Gregory's nap he got to open a special toy - his Little People nativity set. I am sure there will be quite a few years of enjoyment with this toy. He is just getting into playing with his Little People Airplane he has, so this is great timing.
Due to a last minute change of plans we had Thanksgiving at home this year, so last night I went out to get the turkey and then prayed this morning I'd get it thawed out. After over 5 hours in a cold water bath the turkey was finally unthawed enough to cook.
While the turkey was cooking we decorated our Christmas tree and set up some nativity scenes. Can you have too many reminders of what Christmas is really about? One of the nativity scenes is a carved wooden one from Garmisch, Germany. The other one is the Playmobil nativity set that we got while we were in Germany too. The Playmobil one has a billion pieces or so it seems, but it is so awesome and so many more real things (like the cats at the nativity).
Of course today was one of many memories and moments of reminiscing. Some of the things we remembered were the different places we were for Thanksgiving (with Bryan & Raquel before going to Germany, with our church family at the Thanksgiving Retreat, with Brian & Amanda--and the ham juice incident, etc.) And when were were taking out the ornaments there were even more memories. We opened many ornaments for the first time since we weren't able to decorate our Christmas tree last year (we were packing to move back to the USA). There were ornaments from London, a map of Germany, one which said Merry Christmas in French, one in German, and then there was one from when we were pregnant with Gregory and so many others. I know Christmas is a special time because Jesus was born, but it also is special because there are always so many wonderful memories wrapped up in this holiday.
I pray that you will create more memories this year as we will too. This year I am so thankful for memories and many of you are in them. Thank you.
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