The day after Thanksgiving....our family holiday tradition (as often as we can and whoever can) is to go get the Christmas tree for my house. Now, we don't cut our own down, but we do get a real one. We usually take one of the boys' trucks down to Talbott's and pick out a tree. This year Barry had to work and Mal was sleeping from working last night and in preparation for working tonight, so Tanner, Brit and I went. Tanner was on a mission to find our perfect tree as quickly as was humanly possible, so we were only there about 5 minutes total, but we found a perfect tree - not too expensive, not too big for the living room, and relatively straight. We took it home and it now sits in its new home for the next 4 or 5 weeks, letting it's arms relax and waiting for the decorations to land on it this weekend. Then we ate a traditional Thanksgiving dinner (our traditional, at least) which includes turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, dressing (stovetop, in our case), our favorite broccoli casserole, madonna salad, crescent rolls, and pies - this year's choice included lemon meringue (Tanner's fave) and apple crumb pie with vanilla ice cream and homemade carmel sauce drizzled over (Brit's fave). Everyone took home leftovers, as we were too full to consume it all! I love having my children all here together for a meal. It is always truly a time to be thankful for.
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