A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope your holiday was as fun as ours.  We had a “Charlie Brown” Thanksgiving.  Matt, whose deployment schedule changed, has not returned as originally planned.  Rather than be disappointed, we chose to look on the bright side and we had fun.  Leah came up with the idea of having the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving dinner of toast, popcorn, pretzel sticks and goldfish (in lieu of jellybeans) and I thought, why not?  Aaron requested pumpkin pie for dessert because he said, “I tried it when I was a baby and I liked it.”  We just built our plan from there.  We couldn’t have asked for better weather today—60 degrees and sunny with no wind.  It was the best it has been in a month.  (It has been about 50 degrees and rainy and/or cloudy and/or windy for the past few weeks.)  We had a very relaxing day—nowhere we had to go, nothing we had to cook (other than the pie), etc.  No dishes either--we used paper plates.  Leah and Aaron stayed in their pajamas until 2pm.  We will have a “traditional” Thanksgiving meal whenever Matt returns.  (I don’t know when that will be so don’t ask.)  Until then, with all due respect to Matt and my family, this Thanksgiving was legend—wait for it—ary!

7am:  The morning started off with gifts from The Turkeys. 
They were thankful we had planned not to eat them

 

8am:  Aaron feels like he should eat some turkey on Thanksgiving.

 

Making pumpkin pie is as easy as 1-2-3! 
Step 1: Combine ingredients and pour into a pie crust.

 

Step 2:  Bake pie.

Step 3:  Eat the pie!

2pm:  Spending time on the playground enjoying the weather.

4pm:  We played a little "Pin the Hat on the Turkey,"...

...followed by coloring placemats.

5:15pm:  Let the feast begin!  I didn't shuffle the toast or deal the plates, though. 

 

We watched Peanuts while we ate on folding chairs and a portable table.

 

We wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!