Thanksgiving

Last year the Davis Boys and their families all came to Ocracoke for Thanksgiving.  At that time Trish and I were not even engaged and she had never even been to the island.  A lot has happened during that very full year.

This year a return trip was not possible as the house is torn out from Hurricane Dorian and there is no place for anyone to stay or even gather. But...during that same year Jonathan and Kahran got married and they are in a lovely new home in Greensboro, so, we were all invited to come there for the holiday.

Kahran was doing almost all of the cooking, but, we were given dessert and drink assignments.  We made Sangria, pumpkin pie, vinegar pie, grape pie, and fruitcake.

On Thanksgiving Day we all arrived: Trish and I gathered along with Doug and Jill, Kelly and Erin and Frank, Jonathan and Kahran, and the boys’ mother, Beth.  It was a wonderful meal but an even better time of visiting.  We ate off my mother, Grandma Lucille’s Blue Willow China that now lives at their house.

Trish and I had found an old photo of the boys when they were about six, eight, and twelve years old. We had had it restored and brought a copy to each of the boys and to Beth.  Of course we  had to have a new boy-photo made after that.

Jonathan, Kelly and Doug around 1983.

How much we have to be thankful for each year; this one more than ever.

Jonathan, Donald, Doug and Kelly.