Turkey Day
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thanksgiving was always a little bit stuffed. A worship service and two feasts was quite enough for one day.
The first matter of the morning was getting the three of them out of the door on time in the rather very cold weather.
A drop-off of the strawberry pretzel salad and laptops at the Silverspoons.
Then to Christ Presbyterian where they were not long later joined by Theodore and Gloria, Kitts fresh in from Ohio, Curly, Izzy, and then Scarlett, Gabriel, and Michael, and Scarlett’s husband, the brother-in-law that Collette had never met.
At the end of the service, when members of the congregation were given opportunity to speak aloud of their expressions of thanks… after several mentions had been given…
“Any more?” Pastor Marshall asked.
“Me!” Puck piped up in the back.
And then he became embarrassed over the laughing.
“He changed his mind,” said OLeif.
Following services, over to the Silverspoon’s for the first of the feasts, which was served at about 1:30, with green ‘fluff’, sweet potatoes, Izzy’s mashed potatoes, turkey, rolls, cranberry sauce, the strawberry pretzel salad, etc., and then pies for dessert.
And Michael received what he had been asking for the whole trip up from Texas: a turkey leg from his Papa, served on salad.
While the food was prepared, the sleet began to fall, and Puck spent some happy hours playing with his cousins. Curly played music with his girlfriend for awhile. Izzy snapped photos. And Kitts seemed more than happy to prepare her recipes in the kitchen.
The second of feasts was at the house with the rest of the family, Grandma Combs, Uncle Mo and Aunt Petunia, Larry, Lucia, and Linus.
Conversation seemed to skip around from the next royal wedding, to exorcisms in the Catholic church, to world governments run via Google and other normal things like that… There were the usual teasings and cartoon slap-fights and occasional riotous laughter…
“You don’t know how crazy we’re really like,” twenty year-old Linus joked. “We’re tame over here. Mom and Dad always tell us to act normal before we come.”
And Puck was awarded a blue stethoscope from Grandma Combs, which he loved, of course, and went around listening to everyone’s heartbeats.
After dinner, Uncle Mo and Linus stretched out on the floor in the living room by the fire. And the conversation continued onwards while the moms and Grandma discussed their upcoming Christmas house tour in Hermann, and the kids continued on that age old subject of government and… yawn.
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