A Tropical Thanksgiving
Posted by Jeri on November 30, 2009
No turkey for us this year. Instead, we enjoyed some chicken and pork along with mashed potatoes, stuffing, salads, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, and lots of wonderful watermelon, pineapple, and mango. We enjoyed the meal on the Saturday after Thanksgiving with our teammates, the Williamses and Reeses, and some SIL (Bible translators) people here in town. It was a wonderful day of food and fellowship. We’re thankful for our Papua New Guinean friends, but we’re also thankful for our American and Canadian friends working here with us.
Thanksgiving Day was extremely rainy. This is dry season (supposedly), but last week we just had so much rain. The picture below shows what our yard looked like during the day.
At our Thanksgiving meal, the missionary kids loved playing together. They all play together so well! Poor Caleb is the only boy, but he had a great time anyway.
I helped Hannah and Caleb make Thankfulness Turkeys on Thanksgiving. Hannah is thankful for rain, trees, nose, Grandma and Grandpa, plants, and a house. Caleb is thankful for Grandma Bullock and Kaitlyn, ducks, turtles, airplanes, house, and Hannah. (I think there are more than two turkeys in that picture!)
Elizabeth is 5 months old and enjoyed her first Thanksgiving this year. She is developing right along and likes to grab everything, giggle (especially at Hannah and Caleb), and read books.
We serve an amazing God and have so much for which to be grateful. I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and will continue to thank God for his blessings.
(To our Canadian friends, sorry this is late!)
Wow! That is a LOT of rain! I bet walking out to open and close the gate that day was most certainly an extra adventure!
So glad you got to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with the team. Sounds like it was a lot of fun. Haven’t heard of the Turkey tradition with the kids before. We will have to have our 2 make their Thankfulness Turkeys next year. I love that idea!
I love reading about how you adapt…you will all have such lovely memories!
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