Before we had Thanksgiving dinner, my young nephew Ethan came over and whispered to me that he would like to say a few jokes before I said grace.
He’s too young to know, but his timing was perfect. Not the timing of his jokes mind you…a career in stand-up may be a little ways away, but I knew what I wanted to say before we started dinner and Ethan’s jokes were a perfect counterbalance to how I was feeling at that moment.
After the comedy act, I stated as best as I could to the 15 of us around the table that it is not unusual for families to have set an extra place for a lost loved one. We didn’t do that and the answer why is very simple.
Chris remains with each of us at all times wherever we are…together or separated.
Max helped me out and said grace and for his continued strength I am proud and grateful.
Now, that smoked ham was awesome and a lot of fun.
Here’s a few pics.
Be The Best. 
5 replies on “Hamming it up.”
*drooling* Happy Turkey Day dudes.
To you as well Steve and all our Canadian family and friends living in the US of A and other places in the world!! (that ham was unbelievable btw!)
Our get together was wonderful, but missing Chris so very much, knowing he was with us in spirit made it good.
The ham dinner with all the trimmings was fanTAbulous, thank you Inge and Rand and Max I’m very proud of you. Love you all :-))
Agreed. He was with us in spirit…that is for sure.
As i read that i felt Chris’s spirit! How beautiful on thanks giving!