Thanksgiving Vacation

Once again, for perhaps the 11th year in a row, we hosted our friends Eric and Leslie for Thanksgiving. And again, we made our apricot glazed turkey that seems to be bulletproof, always tasty and golden and yummy.

Still had another 45 minutes to go!

We made the traditional sformata, the always yummy gougéres from the French Laundry, the amazing onion and drippings gravy, and Kate's favorite, I think, root vegetable gratin. Everything was amazing and we were uncomfortably full long before it was time for desert. So Eric and I and the boys (Maceo and Cassius and Sam and Leo) went exploring at the Divinity school and we found some bones and antlers to add to the collection of our Natural History Museum.

Not too shabby for Washington DC!

The next day, Kate went back to work, and the boys and I had a play date with a classmate of Cassius's named Janie whom we've known since Cassius's first days at St. Ann's. Maceo expressed disdain for playing with "little kids", but he ended up leading them around the back yard in search of caves and bears, and we all had a great time.

Later after quiet time, we went back to the ice skating rink. At first, the boys seemed only slightly better than before, and Cassius was expressing some of the same frustrations; he insisted that his plastic pusher was the wrong color and it went the wrong way and it hit his feet and he was frustrated.

But then we had a snacks and hot chocolate break.

They're checking out the other skaters' techniques

And things went much better after that!