Let the Memories be Made!

Well, the holiday is over, the turkey eaten, the friends departed, and the fun ended...well, I wouldn’t go that far, but Thanksgiving is finished and the Christmas season is now upon us! On Thanksgiving morning, someone told me, “Let the memories be made!” and with that fresh in my mind, I watched carefully throughout the day for the making of memories. Here is what I found:

First thing on Thanksgiving morning, Mommy and I have the tradition of making the stuffing and starting the turkey together. This memory was started a few years ago, but each time the amazing smell of the sizzling butter, onions, and cooking bread cubes, etc of the stuffing fill the kitchen, Thanksgiving officially begins. This year, I decided that the smell was so AMAZING that I nicknamed the stuffing the “Amazing Goodness.”

Another memory made was that Julie’s classmate from her honors class joined us for Thanksgiving. She’s from India and a Hindu, therefore, she had never experienced the joy of an American Thanksgiving before. Not only did she experience a cultural event, but she also witnessed the joy of a Christian gathering and heard the gospel. She was a delight to have with us and we hope to keep this friendship up!

At almost every gathering that we have at our house, we love to play the game Catch Phrase with our guests. (If you don’t know what Catch Phrase is, it’s a wonderfully fun group game where you describe a phrase or word without using that word and then you pass this disk thing on to the next person, and you go round and round until the timer goes off) Anyway, we love to play it, and it’s always a crowd pleaser and it pulls out such fun aspects of personalities that you would other wise not know about! We played several games in a row of this, and as always, the calm-under-stress and the spastically-jumpy personalities showed themselves.

On the day after Thanksgiving, we had dinner with our good friends the Morrisons. It was a spontaneous get-together. I think those might be the best gatherings...those you aren’t expecting. It was nice to spend time with them, tease one another, play Uno, and just have a good, relaxing time eating chili and left-over pumpkin pie...not together of course.

And, as always, even though those memories are made and Thanksgiving season is past for another year, there’s always many things to look forward to. Christmas decorations are going up throughout the house, the lights are hung on the bush outside, the Ladies’ Christmas Tea is this Friday, the Messiah concert is this Saturday, and a Boy Scout Ice Skating event on Friday...and...and...and...I think you get the idea. So, yes, the memories have been made, and we’re looking forward to making more!