Family Giving

The weekend before Thanksgiving we had the luck to gather all of BigGuy's siblings together in one home - BigGuy's brothers house and his wife, Household Exec. We made a big meal - we rocked out with the help of the game RockBand - we watched the kids play together (remember getting together with your cousins when you were a kid?) and to add to the special feeling of how lucky we are to have one another we decided to create something special to give back to our communities. To do this we made some of the super easy Fleece Tie Blankets. In all I think we made 6 of them. Pretty much everyone participated at some time or another in making them. Either by donation of the fabric, creative work put in, watching the younger kids not able to be around the needles, or just taking a nap on the floor and keeping the room warm for us (Uncle C). Although the original intent was to share with the younger kids the gift of giving to others, in the end the adults were really the ones given the gift. We were all in a room, we shared out time, had serious talks, shared our thoughts and plans and experiences with one another and were drawn a little closer. This is probably the most special gift because it is not often that we had unteethered time together to just relax and be ourselves and touched each others lives. Plus, in the end we had created beautiful and warm blankets to touch someone elses life with. How cool is that?

We had so much fun we have already made plans for the next Get Together. This time it will be at our house - we are so looking forward to the crush (in a positive way) of our family filling up the house!!