I’m up early because I forgot that my alarm clock settings change by the weekend and weekday.  The usual weekday alarm went off.  It’s sort of nice to have computer time today though, usually I eat granola and yogurt and John works on orders, or reads about fancy motorcycles or something along those lines on the computer.  Today I’ve been on the computer for an hour, and no one else is even awake!

Yesterday was Grandparents day at EWS.  Logan had thought Nonny Susan would be coming, but it turned out that Susan had to work again this year.

The Thanksgiving Assembly went very well.  Logan’s class played Skye Boat Song on their flutes and then played and sang a second song about the harvest time of year.  They are one of the bigger classes with seventeen boys and girls, and made a good showing all lined up on the stage with their dress clothing on.  I also got to see our first grade friends in their first preform-on-stage assembly.  They recited one of the same stories that Logan’s class did last year about elves making pudding, complete with actions and appropriate faces, which was great fun.  The eighth grade class recited, individually and in concert  Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech.  One person would speak, and then the whole class would join in for a word or phrase.  It was a presentation style I haven’t seen before, and it was done well.  All the classes did well — the whole thing went very smoothly and was enjoyable.

Today we’re going to cook things in the morning, and then take them to Susan & Ty’s for Thanksgiving dinner at their house.  Susan asked us to bring baked potatoes with assorted toppings, which are easy enough.  I wanted to bring pumpkin pie, so we’re making one with coconut milk (the goats are dry, so we have to substitute something for cow milk, and coconut milk has worked well in the past! ), John is making a pie with dried pears that will cook in milk along the way — I suspect soy milk, but I don’t know.  Logan and I are going to make some sugar cookies.  We also made cranberry orange bread last night, which turned out well.  It is the first quick bread Logan can remember making.  She was pleased that it didn’t have to rise, but somewhat entertained by the notion.   We haven’t decided whether to make rolls today or not, so perhaps there will be a raised bread too.

The balance between what would be good and how much work it is gets tricky.

John is now awake.  I’m going to check in about when he thinks we need to start cooking, and about putting a load of laundry on.  Logan decided that having worn her Pumpkin-Orange harvest dress that grandma Wilma sent before Halloween yesterday for the assembly, she needed it washed so that she could wear it to Nonny’s today.  She decided that as we were going upstairs to bed last night.  The washing machine is outside down the path in another building.   Laundry has to be a real emergency to go on at that point in time.  But it can get started sometime soon this morning.

I hope all of you are enjoying your Thanksgiving day and are spending it with folks you like to be with.

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