A Recap of Thanksgiving Weekend in DC

It was a lovely, quiet holiday weekend for the Novaks.  Nick made us a Thanksgiving feast complete with homemade pumpkin pie, turkey, mashed taters and gravy.  I was totally spoiled!  It was our first ever turkey and a major upgrade from the Dominos Pizza we had last year!

Other Thanksgiving fun included watching the Macy’s Day Parade and setting the tree up.

On Friday Nick had to work and Nia was off school, so we decided to try our luck at ice skating.  This was Nia’s first time ever and my first time in probably 15 years.  So yeah, it wasn’t pretty.  Nia pretty much panicked and cried the whole time, despite the fact that she had this amazingly cool penguin to push around that helped her stand.  She liked the idea of it, just not the actual experience so much.  :)

After about 30 minutes of coaxing and sadness on the ice, we abandoned ship and went to Starbucks for a warm-up.  Doesn’t my little big girl look so grown up with coffee (hot chocolate actually) in her hand!

Saturday was focused on 2 things: decorating the tree & making cookies.  The tree decorating got hijacked because Nia wanted to play with all the ornaments and refused to let us put them on the tree yet.

As for cookies, we did our customary Peanut Butter Blossoms (my personal fave).  Nia was the designated chocolate-unwrapper.  She proved to be surprisingly meticulous with this and didn’t even try to steal any in the process.  Grandpa Novak arrived in town that night, so we enjoyed a welcome feast with him as well.

Sunday we had aspirations of visiting the model train exhibit at the Botanical Garden but the lines were an hour plus so we abandoned that idea and simply walked around the rest of the Botanical Gardens (which are lovely and decorated as well).  Later that afternoon we bid Daddy adieu for an 8 day trip to Kyiv, Moscow and Saint Petersburg.  It’s already feeling strange without him here, but happily we have Grandpa to enjoy for the entire week!  That was our Thanksgiving weekend – hope yours was equally lovely!