November 27, 2009

  • Thanksgiving

    We had a wonderful time for thanksgiving, and the food was unbelievably good.  We had four generations of women in Beth's family--Grandma Jane, Beth, Catherine, and Liza--and that has to be pretty remarkable in itself. 

    Liza was very well behaved, and she sat at her place at the dinner table for all but the last few minutes of the meal, when she had to get up and go play.  There were five pieces of silverware (dinner fork and salad fork to the left; knife, soup spoon, and coctail fork to the right), and we briefed Liza on what to do with all of those before we sat down to eat.  She handled all of those implements very well.  That's how kids learn how to eat at a formal dinner like that.  We set her place with a liquer glass of our crystal, and she drank Sprite instead of wine.  She loved that little glass, but somebody had to keep filling it for her.

    The ten people who shared Thanksgiving dinner with us enjoyed themselves.  We'll have a somewhat larger gathering on Christmas night, and I'm already looking forward to that.

    ED