Day 316: Thanks for Thanksgiving

At about 7 pm we bundled the kids back into the car to drive home.

The early part of the day was the normal stuff of life tempered by my still far from 100% health - I fell asleep for a couple of hours after breakfast this morning. The girls messed up the tidy house and then we tidied it again.

At 2.30 pm we set off to celebrate Thanksgiving with our co-church planters J, T, A, J, J & V. Albaniana and family also came and we had a thoroughly nice time. A big relaxed meal followed by a multitude of pies and an extraordinarily silly card game. The kids mostly entertained themselves and each other and made it easy for the rest of us to relax.

I'm not sure I'm really any closer to understanding what Thanksgiving is about for modern Americans, but it seems that sharing a meal with family and friends is the centrepiece, and we certainly shared in that today.

Thank you.