Happy Thanksgiving

Last Thursday was of course American Thanksgiving. Since we are in Canada, we don’t get Thursday or Friday off of work because it is not a holiday here. But we celebrated on Saturday by having a special dinner of mushroom pot pie, mashed potatoes (using potatoes from our garden), stuffing but with rice instead of bread, and cranberry sauce.


And of course pumpkin pie.


Other than that this week has been pretty much like every other week has been for a while. I was super surprised when I started this post to discover that I forgot to blog last Sunday and didn’t even realize that two weeks had gone by. So things have been pretty standard around here.

Jeff discovered this scene and thought that it was pretty funny.

Maren’s imagination has been kind of incredible lately. Yesterday I had to go out while she was still having lunch, and she just nonchalantly said “Bye black monitor lizard!,“ as if 1) I was aware that that’s what I was in her pretend world of having lunch at the reptile store, and 2) it is totally normal for me to be pretending to be a very specific reptile.

For a while, we have been dealing with constant imaginary play in which she is other people/animals and we are other people/animals and it is impossible to keep up with who we are supposed to be and who she is, but she gets super mad if we call her by the wrong name or are not playing along as if it’s real. The real problem is sometimes she changes who she is and who we are so quickly that in her mind we are in a totally different place than where we think we are. Also, Jeff has said that he would like to interact with his own daughter every once in a while and all this pretending to be other people gets old. But it is good to know that her imagination is healthy and working :-)