Feasting

This Thanksgiving we were blessed with out of town visitors! Alex Sr. (Gramps) Carmona flew in from Chicago and Micheal Carmona from L.A. Because their flights arrived in Asheville Thursday night, we decided to have our feast on Friday. We were able to do quite a bit of prep work on Thursday, so it was very helpful to have that extra day. We were able to bake 5 pies, 24 dinner rolls, 12 sandwich rolls, bake the sweet potatoes for the casserole, and cut 4 loaves of bread for the stuffing.

We ate chilli for dinner on Thursday (Thanksgiving) night which felt sort of rebelious. Then woke up early Friday morning to cook cook cook.

We all sat down to eat around 3:00pm. Everything was absolutely delicous in the moment and also as leftovers. We were especially excited to use some of the silver service utensils that Kelcey and I inherited from Nana McDermand earlier in the year.
We feel so grateful for the abundance of love in our home. Even when the cupbards are bare and our pockets are empty we have so much to be thankful for, and there is nothing like this particular holiday to remind us to count our blessings.