My family got together at my sister's house for Thanksgiving. In addition to the traditional roast turkey, bread stuffng, mashed potatoes, green salad, and cranberry sauce, we also had broccoli salad, candied yams, creamed corn, Sakae sushi, rice stuffing, steamed rice, and three kinds of pie for dessert (or "desert", if you're playing Pictionary with my sister).
The kids were busy making a picture of the first Thanksgiving, using a sheet of stickers and a base landscape to put them on. Us uncles and aunts (and grandparents) quickly found out that any form of critique resulted in getting a sheet of stickers and a base sheet thrust into our hands with instructions from my sister to "put our hands to work" instead of our mouths. She was wondering what to do with the extras, since the stickers/base sheet came in a pack of 12 and there were just the three kids.
The kids discovered that planning ahead paid off as there were more stickers than places to put them. We (uncles and aunts) chose to be creative instead although we also defied the laws of nature (not a good example for the kids, eh?) by having grapes growing in the trees, turkeys flying in the air and pilgrims walking on water.
We had dessert with our choice of the three pies: apple, pumpkin, and chocolate cream. My niece, Katherine, had assigned herself the task of applying the whipped cream to the pumpkin pie, but soon lost her way as she covered any pie that passed in front of her, including the chocolate cream, which comes with its own whipped cream layer. At one point, the whipped cream outmassed the pumpkin pie that was buried beneath it. No one was really complaining about it, but she did go through two cans in just a matter of minutes.
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