2015 Office Thanksgiving

We had our fifth annual KidPak Office Thanksgiving today, an event just before Thanksgiving where everyone brings in some food and we all just spend a bit of time celebrating and enjoying each other's company.  The woman in the center on the couch above is Loretta, who is moving off to California soon - this was somewhat of a goodbye party for her as well.

It was actually a really nice afternoon.  The food was great as always - Josh brings the turkey, and everyone else brings something different for the most part (we call dibs on certain food items ahead of time).  There were a lot folks this year, and as always, there was Christmas music and laughter in the air.  One thing missing for the first time was Madison - we usually do this when she's off of school.  We had to do it today, because Mommy and Daddy won't be at the office next week.  Neither will Pastor Lance, so we decided to make it today instead.  And that worked out just fine.

The rest of the day was spent working towards Sunday, with Jumanji in the works and a special Thanksgiving service at night.  Next Sunday, we start our newest series, and today we got those booklets, which look really sharp.

Daddy got home, and we kept working on this tree, which is a pretty big project, actually.  Seriously, we've got tubs and tubs of ornaments, and it takes quite some time to get every piece strategically hung up somewhere!  Fortunately, we had a movie playing, "The Santa Clause," which always makes things better.  "Let him go!  Let Santa go!"  It's such a great movie filled with one-liners and Christmas magic.  This is one of those movies you sort of quote all throughout the year, this one and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

We read some more tonight, and are actually almost done with the next Never Girls book, which involves a story-telling fairy named Spinner, and a little girl that doesn't quite know the definition of 'stealing someone else's stuff' yet.  I'm sure it will work out by chapter ten.  But this is a shorter book, and we should actually be done with it tomorrow.  Then we'll start on the next Never Girls book, which we'll be done with shortly as well.

It's such a great season, isn't it?    There's always something nice going on.  Tomorrow, "The Gift" and the next day, we'll see some new Christmas lights we haven't seen before.  So much to look forward to this week, and of course Thanksgiving is just around the corner!