Thanksgiving looked very different for all of us this year. We always have 12 to 20 around our table, and we offer up our traditional brined and roasted turkey, challah chestnut stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole (sometimes marshmallows, sometimes pecans), Brussels sprout salad, pumpkin cornmeal cake, and apple galette. This year we thought we’d change it up because it was just the three of us, but NO, my daughter won’t hear of messing with tradition. So, instead, we added a new one. Fifty fresh oysters were delivered from Matunuck Oyster Farm on Wednesday afternoon (shucking knife included). My daughter mastered a new skill, Expert Oystah Shuckah, that she will be adding pronto to her dating app. With no timetable or hard deadline, it was a leisurely day of slurping bivalves, dicing, cooking, and dancing. We got dressed for dinner, lit the candles, and set a fancy table. Thankful. Hope yours was a good one. Love, Erica

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