Chronicles of our family

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Thanksgiving at School + Annual Thanksgiving Tree

M along with her four-year-old class put up a wonderfully cute Thanksgiving music performance.

We also put up our Thanksgiving tree in November (thanks gama for drawing the artisitic tree) and recorded on an almost-daily what they were thankful to God for. The kids also came back home from school with cartloads of Thanksgiving crafts and stories about the Mayflower, pilgrims and ahem, Indians ;)

Thanksgiving 2013

This year we had full tummies and a full house for Thanksgiving. We started with an early Thanksgiving meal with the Bhaskers on Sunday (Yummers). Wednesday saw the arrival of the Rasams (Ramya + Sam) and Sidhus (Ritu + Sid) and the band of little people (four total this time). With six adults and six kiddos, Thanksgiving was a riot - four days of partying it up for us (at least our version of a party - food, more food, yapping, marathon TV shows, kids who kept each other busy...) Ranjit did the honors of brining and roasting the bird which turned out pretty good although thanks to wifely input we roasted it wrong side up (hehe). Nothing that some Indian masala gravy couldn't fix. Vegetable bake, roasted root veggies, smashed potatoes with rosemary, bread rolls, cranberry sauce and stuffing completed the meal!

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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Fall photo shoot

Fall not, O leaves

'Tis a beautiful time of year
In the Northwest
When leaves
Change color
But when they fall
Then it's not so nice
When you have to rake them all.

(Having a blog + the concept of poetic license gives one the freedom to spout such pearls of wisdom).

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Halloween 2013

Halloween turns out to be a big fancy dress event for the kids. Between all the playgroup, school, and church events, Mika got to be Pirate Izzy (from Jake and the Neverland Pirates) and Red Riding Hood, while Yo opted to consistently feature as his current favorite superhero, Superman.