First off, I just wanted to say that I was so grateful to have the family getting together.  It's so nice to see all the children playing and laughing. I loved that we were all together eating and relaxing.

I was also grateful that preparation for Thanksgiving was virtually stress free. All participants brought a dish or two and it was at mi sister's house.  No mess to clean up.  Amen to that!

Did you enjoy the turkey?  Was there pumpkin pie and stuffing?

We had all that and more.  My family is mainly Filipino. So we had the traditional American food (turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, collard greens).  We also had lumpia, pancit, calderetta, ube yam, fruit salad, biko, and sinigang. We also had mac 'n cheese, lasagna, Watergate salad, homemade bread, and a whole steamed fish.  There was so much food, I had to take small portions of everything.  Even that turned out to be a bad idea since my stomach disagreed with the wide variety at one sitting. 

It was great to just eat and kick back with family. Sure we watched a couple of the football games.  But I spent some time getting pictures and videos of this affair.  Ah, I love Thanksgiving and all the fattening trimmings.  I'm sorta missing it now that I'm thinking about going back to work tomorrow.

After the highs of the holiday and get togethers, I'm going to be soooo depressed to be back at work tomorrow. Wish I could hit the rewind button to enjoy Thanksgiving all over again. This past week was a blast, yet so short.

Doesn't it seem like the good times just go by way too fast?