I have to say I wish I had taken some pictures of our Thanksgiving day. But I was a bit busy. I had the usual Thanksgiving business of cooking, cleaning, cooking, getting kiddos ready, cooking, etc. But this year we had a wee bit more work thrown into the mix...two boys...with the tummy bug. How horrid to have the tummy bug on a feasting day! Our guests, who were bringing the turkey, decided to play it safe and stay home. Thankfully it was early enough to thaw out a couple of chicken roasters before dinner time.
There was some question if Jed was going to be able to keep anything at all down that day. But by around 3 o'clock he was finally able to keep stuff down. He over did it a bit at dinner as he had tummy pain after eating, but he didn't get sick again. Phew. I was a bit concerned about who may awake in the middle of the night. I prepared myself mentally before going to bed. Imagine my surprise when *I* woke up sick. For some reason that possibility didn't enter my head! Ha!
This Thanksgiving meal was a cross between traditional and GAPS. I made the decision to keep any meal plans in place that we had before we started GAPS. All food plans after that were made GAPS legal. This meant we had roasted chicken, mashed potatoes (some had hashbrowns!), peas, jellied cranberry sauce, we used the cooking juices as the 'gravy' (didn't have the desire to make it more gravy like), gaps legal apple crisp and gaps legal pumpkin pie. Jedidiah loved, loved, LOVED the pumpkin pie mix (before we cooked it), but when it came to eating the actual pie, he ate one bite! Maybe he was all pumpkin'd out? I think the apple crisp won out over the pumpkin pie. I loved the pumpkin pie's consistancy, but it did need a little something else. That something else may have been the cloves, that I purchased in bulk during out last shopping trip, but couldn't find come baking day.
After dinner, dessert and dishes we went outside for a small bonfire. Jeremiah reads George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation each Thanksgiving. This year he read it off of his laptop while sitting around the fire. It was a nice way to end the evening. We were able to keep up with the dishes and cleaning, so I was able to awake to a clean house. This is a good thing since I'm still not feeling 100%. We have company coming today...maybe, as I still need to call them to say we have the tummy bug making it's way around. The older two girls have to help out at the stables for an hour this morning. And then, I may try to get them to do a little school work. We are behind and I've given them two weeks to catch up. They only have one week left to catch up of things. After that they will have to forgo any 'extras' until they are caught up. Those being: participating in the upcoming art contest, horse riding lessons, choir or computer time. I'm such a mean mom :-)
Hoping everyone else had a wonderful day!
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