Thanksgiving – October 31, 2020

(This is Suzy.  Here and there, I’ll be adding my own two cents to Steve’s blog.)

Nothing is normal in 2020, so why should Thanksgiving be any different?  Since Steve will be in the middle of chemo and radiation by Real Thanksgiving, we decided to move it up a few weeks. 

Thanksgiv-O-Ween was born.  (It took a few tries to come up with that name.) Complete with turkey, cornbread dressing, sweet potato pie, and family.  Everything except the good dishes and the fancy tablecloth, which we all decided we never cared about anyway.

It’s nice having Lee and Heidy in our bubble.  Knowing they’re around to help us out.  Being able to be together without masks.  And best of all, being able to hug them both.  (Plus their little dog Oreo is the pure definition of a therapy dog – he’s so happy, there’s no way you can be sad around him!)

Eric and Irene were here via zoom, a bit more ready for Halloween than Thanksgiving. They moved their camera around so we could see the cute little trick-or-treaters helping themselves to candy on their porch, as Irene the witch and Eric the 70’s guy in bellbottoms waved to them from inside their living room.  That’s 2020, right?

As the smell of turkey spread from the oven throughout the house, Lee mentioned that the dog park had been pretty empty that morning.  I said it was because people were home with their families cooking their turkeys… for a second, I actually forgot that it wasn’t Real Thanksgiving.

This year’s Fleury Thanksgiving may not have been a normal Thanksgiving or the Real Thanksgiving, but it was definitely a good one.

This an update by Steve. Apparently, I’m a horrible person, let me explain. We have a tradition that we always got around the table, saying what we are thankful for, starting with the youngest. Heidy went then Lee, and they both nailed it. Ever since we planned the early Thanksgiving, I’ve been thinking about what I was going – here and there, and it made me emotional every time. When it was Suzy’s turn, she immediately broke out crying. Here’s the horrible part, I was secretly glad that Suzy cried so I had an excuse to get misty eyed. I don’t even remember what either of us said, but I remember well the comfort Lee and Heidy gave us both!