Thanksgiving with friends
We spent Thanksgiving at our neighbour’s house. We share a back porch, left our doors open and wandered back and forth with drinks and dishes of delicious food all afternoon as we were cooking, rushing as we braced ourselves for the brisk air between apartments. I made pecan-stuffed mushrooms as a starter, which were happily shared among neighbours and friends (and completely demolished by the time dinner rolled around).
Mikey made some little hand print turkeys, one for each guest. After they were assembled and had dried he put them one the table, one for each place setting. We turned on the solar powered Christmas lights that I bought for our back porch as it got dark, Mikey gazed over the railings at the colourful outdoor lights on a tree a few houses down the street from us, pointing and announcing “Christmas! Christmas Tree Lights!” He has been asking for us to put up our Christmas tree since then, although I usually like to avoid any indoor decorations until a little later into December. Perhaps next week we’ll venture a few blocks down to one of the local tree lots that has sprung up this past week and find ourselves a small, apartment-sized tree.
Thanksgiving evening was spent sharing wonderful food, swapping stories and enjoying spirited conversation. Drawn out into the early hours of Friday morning with after dinner strong coffee, finally dragging ourselves back to our own apartment and Mikey almost instantly falling asleep under a pile of blankets on the couch, as it was many many hours past his bedtime.
Filled with gratitude, that we have wonderful friends and neighbours and enough wonderful food to fill a table. That we have heat on these chilly nights and pretty lights to brighten up our porch. Thankful for love, fun, conversation and one another.
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Great Photos! I love stuffed mushrooms.
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Sounds lovely! Your photos are amazing as usual:) Pecan stuffed mushrooms..wow, they sound delicious!! ~ Barefoot Mama
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Lovely blog. met you on Pic the Holidays!
So glad that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I absolutely love these photos, Rebecca!
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Dearest sweet Rebecca, i am from picture the holidays group and i am so happy i came by your space today. Your photos are just amazingly beautiful and looked like you had a wonderful thanksgiving! Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!
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Love the vintage feel with the black and white. If your pics didn’t make me want stuffed mushrooms then I don’t know what did. I’d love if you could share the recipe. Looks awesome!!!
I just love all of your photos! It looks like you had a great holiday shared with wonderful people!
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I love the black and white! And those mushrooms look amazing!
Looks like a lovely time. How nice to have such nice neighbors to share Thanksgiving with.
Looks like such an awesome thanksgiving. I love these photos so much.
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it looks like you had a fantastic day! love all the shots. so pretty.
These pictures are awesome,. I love your black and white conversions. Everything about these are amazing.
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