A Dual Holiday -- Thanksgiving and Anniversary

Thanksgiving at Linderhof was a quiet affair

Just Husband Jim and I

For he is recovering from surgery

So we chose a

"Home Alone"

Thanksgiving

But this year

It was also our 46th Anniversary

Thanksgiving food won out over Anniversary food

And we had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner

In the dining room

And as our marriage is two people who become one

Our Thanksgiving table reflects that melding of two families

My mother's water glasses

His grandmother's cutlery

The bread tray celebrating a 25th anniversary in 1914

Napkin rings which he bought for a gift

In fact, it was two of the very first ones I got when I started collecting

Belonging to Abe and Dora

A couple's napkin rings

for an Anniversary Thanksgiving Dinner

The plates are Spode Festival

While the bread and butter plates are Queesware

And Thanksgiving is turkey

Turkey to eat

Turkey for the cranberry sauce

Turkey salt and peppers

A big tom holding a bouquet of fall flowers

The salt and peppers and centerpiece I got the second year we were married

At a dimestore in downtown Kansas City

for less than $5!

We've had them ever since!

(And I found a second flower holder but then I like things in pairs!)

Our places at the head and foot of the table

The feast spread between us

The glass turkey

(one of a pair, naturally)

holding cranberry sauce

And the wee turkey holding pepper

A casserole of dressing

(Which is what we call it whether it is inside or outside the turkey)

Our plate of Thanksgiving food

Most of it from my childhood Thanksgivings

And after dinner

But not after pie

We were too full!

The dishes are done and stacked on the breakfast room table

That's a tradition too

For usually someone helps with the dishes

And not knowing where they go they get piled up somewhere

For the hostess to put away later.

It wouldn't seem like Thanksgiving without clean dishes on a table

ready to be put away!

Dinner tonight will also not be an anniversary dinner

It will be Thanksgiving leftovers

My favorite

A turkey sandwich and cold glass of milk!

We'll celebrate this weekend or next week!

In hindsight, I'm not sure I would have gotten married on the day before Thanksgiving

Because every few years our anniversary and Thanksgiving fall on the same day.

I am a romantic

And turkey and all the trimmings doesn't seem "romantic" enough for me!

But it is what it is

And I'm happy to be celebrating 46 with the love of my life.