Thanksgiving for us was exhausting, busy, and hard but all in all it went ok I guess. I cooked dinner for Dad and his girlfriend Thursday night--just lasagna.... I figured there would be plenty of turkey later... That went well, though it was hard to see someone else in Mom's seat, and difficult to realize that we were telling her stories that were new to her, when only last year Mom and Dad were telling THEIR stories together.
The next day C and I went to my sister-in-laws, and we really enjoyed that, Carolyn had a lot of fun with her cousins, but she doesn't sleep well at their house for some reason so it was very tiring.
And Saturday Dad's extended family came over to our house for pizza. I was a little irked at them becasue none of them could possibly conceive of having our get-together anywhere but at OUR house for just this year... but we simplified and just ordered pizza, so it went ok.
I missed Mom... especially when making her recipes. But it was doable. It was a little extra hard because the last holiday I had with Mom was Thanksgiving last year when they came to see us in Washington right after she had been diagnosed. Lots of 'last year we....' thoughts.
It just seems everything happened so fast. She's gone and now there is someone new sitting where she used to sit. Hard to swallow, but the way life goes I guess.
So that's my report.