Saturday, November 30, 2013

Thanksgiving Day

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season...

 Celebrating...

 The tradition of thanksgivings....

 The beauty of the season

 And the season of blessedness, and togetherness...

 Of family and friends...

 The young and the old

 The dear... the very dear.



On an extra chilly day, 

but surrounded by warmth and 

the comfort of our home...


And food galore too....

much culinary interest....

and hours spent in the kitchen

preparing food

eating

laughing

singing songs....


dancing salsa all night long

making jokes...

old jokes heard ten thousand times

but never out of time...


With the power to still make us laugh
  
with gusto... and real joy

The joy of family being reunited...

And some new recipes to celebrate this occasion with an amalgamation

of turkey and green fried plantains.


Gathering around the festive table...

And taking a good look at those who broke bread with me...  


What a special Thanksgiving Day this was... a prayer answered; a dream come true after so many years of dreaming...  


You see, because we lived in such cold and far away place, it was hard for our family to come to our house for the holidays... in fact, in all of our  married years they never did.  We were always the ones having to travel South so that we could be together for the holidays.  But this year my dream has finally come true... although neither our dear daughter and her family; nor our youngest son could be here this Thanksgiving Day, we had the blessing of having our oldest son and his little family here, our dear granddaughter, and mom and dad and my sister Lissette and her boys in my own home for the first time ever...  and I the host, the cook, the daughter, the sister, the wife, the mother, the healer of the soul and the little repairer of broken wings... giving thanks to our Creator; the giver of all things and everything... the real founder of the Thanksgiving feast.  

I hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving Day!




6 comments :

  1. how beautiful! I am happy for you, and I too have much gratitude....so nice to have family nearby...

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  2. Indeed. I'm just hoping, and wishing that all my kids could join us on Christmas too... more than a dream, really!

    Thanks for stopping by Ms. Lady

    Cielo

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  3. It is a blessing when all the family can come together. I am so glad you had this.

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  4. I'm so glad so many of your family could be at your new home for Thanksgiving.

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  5. I am so glad they got to travel to your lovely home. We also missed a few people this year but the love goes on and I am thankful for the time I have with each of my loved ones.

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