(a picture of me counts as a feast right? right?)
In anticipation of Monkey's upcoming first birthday, I have been thinking a lot about what I was doing last year at this time. Last year on Thanksgiving weekend I was highly pregnant and eating lots of turkey and pie.
To me Thanksgiving has never felt like a particularly festive holiday. Day off, eat turkey. But not festive, so much. Until last year. It might have had something to do with pregnancy hormones, I don't know. My mom came to our house in the middle of the week to help me with some last minute pre-baby house cleaning. Then my dad and brother came out on the Saturday and we attended our local "Pumpkin Festival". Giant pumpkin weigh-offs, craft sale, exhibit hall (think "State Fair", ladies competing for best jams, baking, pickles. Much fun.) I even wore an orange maternity t-shirt with a jack-o-lantern face on it. Yup. My own wee pumpkin at the Pumpkin fest.
On Sunday, the Music Man's folks and a dear family friend joined us and we hosted an eight person Thanksgiving Dinner. It was wonderful. Warm, cozy, family, turkey. Festive.
This year, Thanksgiving will look a bit different. We will be traveling to my parents house with our almost-one-year-old. It will be crazy, and fun. There will be turkey and family. And hopefully the festive feeling of last year will carry over to this year, and years to come.
In anticipation of Monkey's upcoming first birthday, I have been thinking a lot about what I was doing last year at this time. Last year on Thanksgiving weekend I was highly pregnant and eating lots of turkey and pie.
To me Thanksgiving has never felt like a particularly festive holiday. Day off, eat turkey. But not festive, so much. Until last year. It might have had something to do with pregnancy hormones, I don't know. My mom came to our house in the middle of the week to help me with some last minute pre-baby house cleaning. Then my dad and brother came out on the Saturday and we attended our local "Pumpkin Festival". Giant pumpkin weigh-offs, craft sale, exhibit hall (think "State Fair", ladies competing for best jams, baking, pickles. Much fun.) I even wore an orange maternity t-shirt with a jack-o-lantern face on it. Yup. My own wee pumpkin at the Pumpkin fest.
On Sunday, the Music Man's folks and a dear family friend joined us and we hosted an eight person Thanksgiving Dinner. It was wonderful. Warm, cozy, family, turkey. Festive.
This year, Thanksgiving will look a bit different. We will be traveling to my parents house with our almost-one-year-old. It will be crazy, and fun. There will be turkey and family. And hopefully the festive feeling of last year will carry over to this year, and years to come.
(Think about all the comments you get on an ordinary day as a pregnant lady. Now imagine wearing a jack-o-lantern shirt to the Pumpkin Fest when you are nine months pregnant. Needless to say, it took some convincing to get me to wear the shirt in the first place...)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
6 comments:
I love that shirt! I was very pregnant on Halloween last year and couldn't find one, should have borrowed yours. And I am in total agreement about Tgiving. what a non holiday! I do not get excited about eating with all my inlaws I see all the time anyway. Boring!
Thankgsiving is just ANOTHER day for our families to fight over our love (or more exactly: our children's love) and getting stuffed full of turkey.
That is an AWESOME shirt. And wow, you look JUST like a girl I know - do you have any relatives in Northern Ontario?
That is a really cute maternity shirt, I think. However, I can imagine it might get you some attention you might not have wanted.
In the US, we love thanksgiving! Mostly even the people who go see their families!
Oh I love that shirt. I wonder if I could make one and wear it now and people would thing my belly, which is full of not a baby, but something more like reeces peices and frappacinos was adorable like yours.
Doubtful.
Thanksgiving is "Eh?" around here but my kids look forward to seeing their cousins.
I love the shirt! What a great picture. It is so strange to hear this talk of Thanksgiving. Didn't you know it doesn't come for another 6 weeks?!
It's Erin K - pregnant! I love it! Happy Thanksgiving (a couple days late).
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