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<\/a><\/p>\nMy grandsons’ Christmas outfits are on the back burner. This past week, I\u00c2\u00a0was tied up taking care of Alastair across the state.\u00c2\u00a0 His mother\u00c2\u00a0has been called into work at her job as a computer engineer for a full week, rather than her regularly scheduled two days, so I did daycare instead of\u00c2\u00a0holiday outfits.<\/p>\n
I returned home Thurs. night, fully intending to plow full steam ahead on Christmas clothes, but now we are having an impromptu early Thanksgiving Saturday.<\/p>\n
Ryan and Shelly were already on board because it is a regular football Saturday. We called Rebecca and Harvey Friday at dinner time to ask them to come.\u00c2\u00a0 They piled into the car and arrived late that evening with sweet Alastair sound asleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Having a baby tucked in the nursery crib is just one more thing to be thankful for.<\/p>\n
It will be just like the real thing, though on a slightly smaller scale, as I have just begun cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 But with turkey, dressing, lots of trimmings, pumpkin and mincemeat pies and a day rife with college football games, the only difference will be that we are not celebrating on the 4th Thursday of November.<\/p>\n
Both our son and daughter are scheduled to spend Thanksgiving Day with in-laws so\u00c2\u00a0I had nothing planned.\u00c2\u00a0 When we decided Friday afternoon to gather the family for this early celebration of our\u00c2\u00a0abundance of blessings, I couldn’t resist whipping\u00c2\u00a0up some casual shirts for all three.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of my motivation was this darling alphabet found at www.planetapplique.com<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Their designs are all charming, but I was especially taken with the bean stitch on top of the satin letter outline.\u00c2\u00a0 So\u00c2\u00a0 that’s what the children got.\u00c2\u00a0If there had been more time,\u00c2\u00a0it would have been nice to add a\u00c2\u00a0small pumpkin or two at the base of the letters.\u00c2\u00a0 But there were pies to bake, \u00c2\u00a0cranberry orange relish to be made, and more to do.<\/p>\n Laurel’s outfit is a shirt and brown leggings.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Friday afternoon, in my haste to find an unadorned girl’s\u00c2\u00a0white \u00c2\u00a0shirt, I grabbed up this one.\u00c2\u00a0 It had a satin\u00c2\u00a0 ribbon rosebud tacked at the neck, but I knew it would be easy to remove.\u00c2\u00a0 But when I got home, I discovered that silver metallic ribbon was stitched on\u00c2\u00a0 the cuffs.<\/p>\n Certain as I was that the white satin rose was not a good mix with a turkey monogram, I was even more certain that this sleeve trim had to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The silver ribbon and the plain hem were cut away and lettuce-leafed in brown on my ever-faithful and beloved Babylock Evolve serger.<\/p>\n They are all here now and I’ve gotten\u00c2\u00a0pictures of my three little turkeys together.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I’ve got to get the pies out of the oven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UPDATE:\u00c2\u00a0 Some new photos of all three in their turkey shirts……. My grandsons’ Christmas outfits are on the back burner. This past week, I\u00c2\u00a0was tied up taking care of Alastair across the state.\u00c2\u00a0 His mother\u00c2\u00a0has been called into work at … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n