Our First Thanksgiving in the Northeast

We have just finished our first Thanksgiving here in Pennsylvania. As with many of you, having a little time off to just sit around, play games with the kids, and run around outside was quite welcome. Of course, with Thanksgiving so late this year, finals and Christmas break are not far off. (I am ignoring finals and papers for a couple days, at least.)

A week or two ago, the seminary sent us all an e-mail to let us know that a donor was going to be giving enough turkeys for each family to have one. I know, there are two in our freezer, as you can see, but one belongs to our upstairs neighbors. One nice thing about seminary is the occasional gift to the school for seminarian families, like these turkeys. A few weeks ago, we came home with a 50lb. bag of potatoes!

We were actually able to meet up with some new friends from Thailand for Thanksgiving earlier this week. They are friends of our Thai friends back in Oregon, and they live only 30 minutes away from us here. So, we had a Monday-night Thanksgiving celebration to get the week rolling.

Then, Thursday night, the neighbors upstairs came down and we had a miniature pot-luck. It was good fun, nice conversation, and a great opportunity to spend time with friends, since almost all of us are distant from our families.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, too.