A Very Barett Thanksgiving

I was home for my first Thanksgiving in 3 years this week- and it was awesome! Mom is really good at cooking Thanksgiving dinner now, and the food was so incredibly delicious compared to all the store-bought meals Eric and I shared with my friends in Texas. Also, there is nothing so wonderful as being folded into the warm, though unsentimental, embrace of a pack full of Baretts. I highly recommend it.

Our lovely table setting, about the time I dropped T-Bear's nice turkey plate on the ceramic floor and shattered it into a million pieces. This will probably be remembered at all future thanksgivings until I die.

Of course T-bear's dogs had to do their thing, which is basically just get in the way. Casey is completely deaf now, so that adds to her perceived senility. Spring did well, she really is a sweetie.

Men folk talking about men things:

Here is the new family superstar, Ruby. She is SO adorable and sweet. It is impossible not to fall in love with her.

Ready for dinner:

Bingo madness after dinner included lottery scratch-offs:

The matriarch and patriarch:

In yo face: