Riley and Avery

Riley cleansing her spirit with sweetgrass:



Apparently, Avery's spirit is already sparkly-clean, she was not too keen on the process:


The three amigos; Riley, Avery, and Caoimhe. Of course, Caoimhe and Riley have their eyes closed. I'll have to ask Caoimhe's mom if she got a better one. That's Caoimhe's cute little sister at the end of the table:


Our Thanksgiving started on Tuesday, I suppose, with Riley and Avery's soup feast at their school. Every year, every child brings some vegetables in to school on the Monday before Thanksgiving and they make soup. Then they take soup and cornbread to the park and we all eat it. They perform Indian dances and songs, and then we all dig in. It was fairly warm, so we spent a few hours there.

Thanksgiving dinner was nice. I made two pumpkin pies and an apple pie. Ham, roasted potatoes and carrots, candied yams, and stuffing. Not too much, but enough. I hope we can make this food last, since I spent an arm and a leg on it. At least Sunflower Market had natural ham for the same price as conventional ham at the local grocery store. Their yams were also much cheaper. I already had a stockpile of potatoes and carrots, so that was no problem. My only issue was that the "spiral cut" ham was only cut about 2 inches deep on one side and only scored on the other. What's up with that? Isn't spiral cut supposed to be cut at least close to the bone? Geez.

I am suffering from cabin fever today. We didn't get out yesterday, obviously, and have no plans to go out on the crazy day known as Black Friday. Plus, we're broker than broke. It's very warm today, so hopefully I can toss the kids outside and Rudi and I can take turns going out for coffee.