Thanksgiving French Style

My Thanksgiving always involves the same group, my immediate family and my adopted French family, the LeForts. We have been celibrating this repas for 19 years now. This

year I had a huge amount of help from my son's girlfriend, NoaLee. I pre-order my "Dinde"

or Turkey from my village butcher who always cleans, and dresses it for me. Madame M

then proceeds to gives me explicite instructions on how to cook it, even though I have been

preparing Turkeys now for thirty years. I listen politely and then do it my own way being

the headstrong girl that I am. I always use the Reynolds bag. It works and is quite efficient.

I made my own table linens in the burlap style that is quite fashionable and I feel it turned out

well.

It is starting to wind down the brocante season and I am concentrating on the

marketeting a sales aspect of my Etsy site, taking lots of photos and such. I went to a charming birthday party for a boy of 10 years old, his parents put the party on a soccor field in the forest for 10 boys and they had a ball (literally!) and played for three hours. Cake was eaten, presents were unwrapped and everyone seemed content The picture below was taken on my

iphone, becase good things should be shared! What a simple idea!

Sunday's Treasures

It's been absolutly beautiful here for more than a week and you know what that means, great weather to go out and find treasures! I wake up on Sunday

morning at 6:30 (yes, she is dang, huh?) and I shower, have a quick OJ and coffee and off I go. The blood starts corsing through my veins as I get closer to my destination village and park my car next to that long line of cars of

people that are there already. This Sunday I was in for a real treat, because in the middle of the morning all of the sudden this man comes on a pa system

and annouces in French of course, look up there is a flock of storks. What a

beautiful sight, there circling around the church steaple was a flock of about

100 storks, yeah, storkes the mythical bird that brings the babies. In any case,

seeing as though I am an older girl now and my babies are mostly grown, I did'nt put in an order for any. But I did take home some finds though, this

weeks booty was two rattan covered bottles, I like the texture and graphics

in the weaving, don't you?

It's September here in the Oise and the weather is winding down and starting to get a little chilly. Fall is my favorite time of the year, I start

preparing the menu for my Thanksgiving feast and send out my invations

to my adopted family members and friends to share it with. I have the

same group every year with some new additions. This year my son's french girlfriend, Noahlee will be included and will help me early in the

morning with the Dinde and stuffing. I love it when my children (almost

grown) start to learn about family traditions in cooking, don't you? I keep this tradition alive so that my children know where thier history is also. They may be French but thier American also!

This weekend was raining but I still managed to go between the raindrops and hit three brocantes (weekend village flea markets) Is

it just me? or are you facinated with vintage birdcages also? They

keep finding me or is it the other way around? In any case I found this miniscule one. It's for sale on my Etsy shop you can find it there.