This year I cooked and hosted my first Thanksgiving dinner! And by "hosted" I mean that I invited my parents over to join us. Since this was my first shot at roasting a turkey we decided to keep it pretty simple, not to mention that having a 4 year old and a baby doesn't leave a lot of time for fancy cooking right now. After seeing all these fancy tables on Instagram, I thought maybe I should at least try to make our table a little special so I wrote up some place cards. I've been trying to practice my flourishes lately, so I added a little flourish. Also, we never got around to carving Lucy's pumpkin at Halloween because well, we ran out of time, so she said she wanted to carve a turkey into it. We also added a little turkey-cup craft she made at church. This is about as fancy I can get our dinner table to look right now. Actually, any day there isn't extra mail or dirty cups left on it, I consider it a big success! :)
In the end we had a lovely, simple Thanksgiving. Maybe when the kids are older we might be able to attempt something bigger and fancier, but for now this was right up our alley and I am thankful that life doesn't have to look perfect to be wonderful.