Happy Thanksgiving
This year has definitely been one for the book I’m writing. There’s been so much that has happened that it would be hard to exclude 2020 from my life’s story; the good, the bad and the ugly (like, really really ugly).
Our Thanksgiving this year was weird. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade was terrible in so many ways and yet a prime analogy for 2020. We couldn’t watch it on TV since we cut cable when we moved to Wisconsin as part of our journey to being debt free, so we were trying to stream it on YouTube and the only place we could find it on YouTube was not letting us hear what was going on at the parade. We were trying to watch the incredible Irish bagpipers and the producers were playing piano elevator Christmas music over it. We watched as several NYPD officers told people to go home. There were no balloon handlers, no crowds cheering, and we couldn’t understand half of what anyone was saying because of the masks. Eventually we turned it off, because it was just so depressing.
So we turned on the Thanksgiving channel on Pandora, got to cooking and Randy played the best trick on Katelyn involving the turkey neck. Which, of course, I had to share on Instagram and TikTok.
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We sang and danced, we cooked every single thing you could possibly think of for Thanksgiving. The kids set the table and even though I bought disposable plates and cooking tins, we still ended up with four loads of dishes to wash. I’m not even sure how that’s possible!
It was our first year really celebrating Thanksgiving just the six of us, and while it was certainly not the crazy and boisterous holiday we are used to, it was beautiful in its simplicity.
I hope that even though this year has just been the absolute worst for so many of us, that your Thanksgiving was a day filled with love and laughter, good food and great company.
Much love, always.
xoxo, Ash
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