Give Thanks For Each Day (@Storia_eBooks)

Although I grabbed Give Thanks For Each Day for John thinking it would be a great Thanksgiving read, it really is an every day book ... and will probably be read and re-read throughout the year!

 I had John pick out which page he wanted, of course, and got all warm and fuzzy when he picked out the one of the Mommy bear with her cubs.

 PB&J on wheat, grapes, colby jack cheese stick and Teddy Grahams. It's his last day of school before Thanksgiving and they'll be getting a special treat for snack time so I didn't want to give him a very heavy lunch!

Stickfiggy Presents The First Thanksgiving from @MeMeTales

Thanks to the wonderful JDaniel4's Mom we have a wonderful new reading app on the iPad called MeMeTales (it's also available for Android and computer). They have a huge selection of books and an awful lot of them for free .... including the wonderful StickFiggy Presents The First Thanksgiving that John and I read Sunday afternoon.

We loved how there were two different sets of text on most pages -- a "narrator"/Mommy line and then a larger (and easier) John line. John loved the simple but wonderful illustrations and the fact that it was set up for us to read together. I loved those aspects and also that it was more accurate than most Thanksgiving stories. No turkeys to be seen anywhere (that didn't become the norm until the 1800s)!
John does, however, have turkey (bites) in his lunch... along with with colby jack stick cheese, grapes, fruit snacks, yogurt and pb&j!

Mayflower & Pilgrim Boy

I'm so pleased with how this turned out it almost negates the fact that I cut the bejeebers out of my left index finger while cutting the cheese for the flags!

Thanksgiving has always been particularly special for me. My mom was our family historian for years before she passed and she was especially proud of our Mayflower families (especially Edward Doten in spite of him being a bit of a trouble maker!). I've told John a little about who he came from in those regards but I don't know how much he paid attention. He is 5, after all :)

The pilgrim and ship body are bologna sandwiches. The masts are swiss cheese on toothpicks. The ocean is a cut blue raspberry Airhead strip with cheese cracker sharks swimming underneath. Grapes make it lunch!

Happy Turkey Day ... Almost :)

Monday the parents have been invited to go have lunch with their kids! Tom & I will have pretty boring lunches in comparison to John's. Same food for the meal, but Tom would rather not have his mini turkey subs cut & colored like a turkey ;)



The turkey legs are pretzel sticks, his tail are clementine slices. On the side are more sticks and slices and in the top corner is some pumpkin pudding.

 

BONUS: Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Tonight we're back to Tom being stuck on second shift on Thursdays & Fridays so I decided to make a special treat for his dinner. I had originally planned on doing it for one of his 2 school lunches for next week, but didn't want to wait!

Snoopy & Woodstock are toasted turkey sandwiches and the sides, of course, are jelly beans, popcorn & pretzel sticks!

I've got the show loaded onto my ipad so we'll do a dinner & movie & have an early Thanksgiving!