A Lovely Thanksgiving at Susan's

After the parade, Philip and I went to my friend Susan's house for our Thanksgiving meal. It was such a nice gathering of 12 of us including Susan, her two daughters, her two nieces, her niece's boyfriend, and a couple women from her church and three friends she invited from the James Lenox House, a retirement home. It was such a lovely time.
Pictured in the kitchen on the left is: Chad, Susan's two nieces, Susan's daughter Abby and Susan.

Susan's oldest daughter, Sabina, had decided to plan the meal for Thanksgiving and she made all this amazing food with the help of her sister and mom. On the menu included stuffed mushrooms (the size of large muffins!), a huge turkey, Susan's famous sweet potatoes, vegetable root salad, pumpkin pie, cranberry apple pie, and so much more! It was delicious.
Photo on left is sisters Abby and Sabina.

Philip and I had a great time and had much to be thankful for this year. This was our first Thanksgiving away from our families, but we had the next best thing.


Photo on right is of Abby, Wesley (the dog), Sarah and Susan.

At dinner we all said what we were thankful for and celebrated friends and family and the delicious food!

One of the guests from the James Lenox House was Helen and she was 98 years old. Helen has lived in Manhattan her entire life. We couldn't believe how sharp she was! As were were talking to her we found out that Helen had gone to Elementary School in the school that is still across the street from me and Philip's apartment. What a small world!

Oh, and we couldn't forget about Wesley, Susan's beautiful 10-year-old Vizsla dog. He was hanging out by the fire to stay warm. :)

It was such a lovely day and Philip and I have much to be thankful for!