どもども。
Hi everyone!
皆様、いかがお過ごしでしょうか？
How's everything going in your life?
さて、今日は我が家の今年の感謝祭の様子をお届けしたいと思います。
Okay, I want to share our Thanksgiving this year here.
今年の感謝祭ですが、皆さんご存知のようにコロナの影響があり、ミネソタでも新たに州知事から同一世帯以外との集まりはしないようにとのお触れがでました。
This year's Thanksgiving was a little bit different from our usual due to COVID-19 pandemic as you probably assumed. We got another stay-at-home guideline from the governor in the middle of November too.
最初のプランではいつものようにパパ＆ママとブラッド君を我が家に呼んで、Andyっちが七面鳥を調理する予定だったんです。
Our original plan was actually that we would invite Dad&Mom and Brad over our house and Andy's going to cook turkey for the family.
Andyっち、張り切ってこんな七面鳥を丸ごとあげられる鍋セットまで買ってたんですよ。（画像拝借元）
He even had bought a turkey fryer so that he could deep fry one in the yard.
でね、食材も全部調達して準備万端で感謝祭を迎えようとしていたんですが、感謝祭の2日前くらいに急遽パパママの参加は見合わせる事にしました。
We already had got all the supply for the Thanksgiving dinner from grocery stores, but we ended up deciding to ask Dad&Mom to stay at their place for Thanksgiving this year which was about a couple of days before.
というのも、このブログでも何度か言った事があるんですが、現在パパママが新居建設中で、今までは業者さんが出入りしていても屋外での作業だったんですが、感謝祭の前くらいから屋内での作業が始まり、感染者が再び増えている事やそれに関して改めて州知事から再度注意勧告が出た事もあり、やはり感染リスクが上がる行動はやめておこうという結論に至りました。（ちなみに、パパママは既に新居に住んでいますが、まだまだ完成してない部分がたくさんあります。）
I've mentioned this here some times before, but Dad&Mom have been actually building a cabin and working on the interior by themselves for a while. Until a month ago or so, their contractors were working outdoor and there was not much risk to have a close contact with them. Though, they recently started working inside the house, so we considered about the fact that the number of infected people had increased and also that the governor issued another quarantine guideline too and decided not to take an unnecessary risk and chose "better be safe than sorry" this time. (FYI, Dad&Mom already live in the new cabin, but there are still a lot of places to be finished.)
なので、今年の感謝祭は自宅勤務を続けており、買い物もカーブサイド（オンラインで注文して、お店の前で受け取る方法）を利用しているブラッド君と我が家3人だけの、本当にささやかなものになりました。
So, we celebrated Thanksgiving this year just with Brad and 3 of us. We still invited Brad since he had been quarantined very well by working from home or doing curbside pick-up orders only, and it turned out very low-key but still nice.
基本、我が家の感謝祭は美味しいものを食べてフットボールを観るという行事なので、この日もディナーの前にフットボール観戦。めいのオモチャですごい散らかりよう。（汗）
All we do on Thanksgiving is basically eat lot of food and watch football games every year. So, we were watching a football game before dinner. Yeah, I know, the living room was super messy with May-chan's toys.
めいはブラッド君に本を読んでもらってご機嫌。ちょっと前まではブラッド君にはシャイだったんだけど、ここ最近急に心開いた様子。
May-chan was in a good mood since uncle Brad read books for her. She was actually shy with Brad until a while before, but she seemed to have broken out of the shell for him recently.
ディナーの方は、パパママがいないのとブラッド君はベジタリアンなので、大きな七面鳥を調理するのはやめて、Andyっちチョイスのステーキ。
Speaking for Thanksgiving dinner this year, Andy skipped to his first challenge deep-frying a turkey since Dad&Mom couldn't make it. So, he cooked steak instead.
ディナー完成！
Dinner was ready!
我が家のグリルマンが焼いてくれただけあって、焼き具合も完璧。
Thanks to our grill man, the steak was cooked perfectly.
ブラッド君はベジタリアンなので、ベジタリアンバーガーをHit-chan特製バンズで食べていました。
Brad made himself vegetarian burgers with my homemade buns.
まぁ、感謝祭でやったのはこれだけです。（笑）
Yeah, it's pretty much of what we did on Thanksgiving this year. LOL
考えてみれば食べている物が変わったのとパパママが参加できなかっただけで、やっている事は何も変わってないんですが、やっぱり感謝祭ディナーが感謝祭のお祝いにおいてかなり重要な役割を担っているんだなぁと改めて実感しました。
Well, when I think about our usual Thanksgivings, nothing was much different except for what we ate this year and missing Dad&Mom. That fact reminded me how important Thanksgiving dinner is and who you are with to celebrate Thanksgiving in general.
とりあえず、皆で記念撮影。結構上手く撮れました。
Anyways, I took a picture of us at least and it turned out good.
そんな訳で、我が家の今年の感謝祭はこんな感じで過ぎていきました。
Okay, this is all about how we spent Thanksgiving day this year.
パパママと一緒に出来なかったのは残念でしたが、それでもブラッド君と改めて色んな事に感謝する時間を持てて良かったです。
It was too bad that we could do that with Dad&Mom, but I was still grateful that we could have Brad and spent a day together to remind ourselves how blessed we were with so many things.
という訳で、今日はこの辺で～！！！読んで下さってありがとうございました！！！
Okay, this is all for today. Thanks for reading again!!!
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Hi everyone!
皆様、いかがお過ごしでしょうか？
How's everything going in your life?
さて、今日は我が家の今年の感謝祭の様子をお届けしたいと思います。
Okay, I want to share our Thanksgiving this year here.
今年の感謝祭ですが、皆さんご存知のようにコロナの影響があり、ミネソタでも新たに州知事から同一世帯以外との集まりはしないようにとのお触れがでました。
This year's Thanksgiving was a little bit different from our usual due to COVID-19 pandemic as you probably assumed. We got another stay-at-home guideline from the governor in the middle of November too.
最初のプランではいつものようにパパ＆ママとブラッド君を我が家に呼んで、Andyっちが七面鳥を調理する予定だったんです。
Our original plan was actually that we would invite Dad&Mom and Brad over our house and Andy's going to cook turkey for the family.
Andyっち、張り切ってこんな七面鳥を丸ごとあげられる鍋セットまで買ってたんですよ。（画像拝借元）
He even had bought a turkey fryer so that he could deep fry one in the yard.
でね、食材も全部調達して準備万端で感謝祭を迎えようとしていたんですが、感謝祭の2日前くらいに急遽パパママの参加は見合わせる事にしました。
We already had got all the supply for the Thanksgiving dinner from grocery stores, but we ended up deciding to ask Dad&Mom to stay at their place for Thanksgiving this year which was about a couple of days before.
というのも、このブログでも何度か言った事があるんですが、現在パパママが新居建設中で、今までは業者さんが出入りしていても屋外での作業だったんですが、感謝祭の前くらいから屋内での作業が始まり、感染者が再び増えている事やそれに関して改めて州知事から再度注意勧告が出た事もあり、やはり感染リスクが上がる行動はやめておこうという結論に至りました。（ちなみに、パパママは既に新居に住んでいますが、まだまだ完成してない部分がたくさんあります。）
I've mentioned this here some times before, but Dad&Mom have been actually building a cabin and working on the interior by themselves for a while. Until a month ago or so, their contractors were working outdoor and there was not much risk to have a close contact with them. Though, they recently started working inside the house, so we considered about the fact that the number of infected people had increased and also that the governor issued another quarantine guideline too and decided not to take an unnecessary risk and chose "better be safe than sorry" this time. (FYI, Dad&Mom already live in the new cabin, but there are still a lot of places to be finished.)
なので、今年の感謝祭は自宅勤務を続けており、買い物もカーブサイド（オンラインで注文して、お店の前で受け取る方法）を利用しているブラッド君と我が家3人だけの、本当にささやかなものになりました。
So, we celebrated Thanksgiving this year just with Brad and 3 of us. We still invited Brad since he had been quarantined very well by working from home or doing curbside pick-up orders only, and it turned out very low-key but still nice.
基本、我が家の感謝祭は美味しいものを食べてフットボールを観るという行事なので、この日もディナーの前にフットボール観戦。めいのオモチャですごい散らかりよう。（汗）
All we do on Thanksgiving is basically eat lot of food and watch football games every year. So, we were watching a football game before dinner. Yeah, I know, the living room was super messy with May-chan's toys.
めいはブラッド君に本を読んでもらってご機嫌。ちょっと前まではブラッド君にはシャイだったんだけど、ここ最近急に心開いた様子。
May-chan was in a good mood since uncle Brad read books for her. She was actually shy with Brad until a while before, but she seemed to have broken out of the shell for him recently.
ディナーの方は、パパママがいないのとブラッド君はベジタリアンなので、大きな七面鳥を調理するのはやめて、Andyっちチョイスのステーキ。
Speaking for Thanksgiving dinner this year, Andy skipped to his first challenge deep-frying a turkey since Dad&Mom couldn't make it. So, he cooked steak instead.
ディナー完成！
Dinner was ready!
我が家のグリルマンが焼いてくれただけあって、焼き具合も完璧。
Thanks to our grill man, the steak was cooked perfectly.
ブラッド君はベジタリアンなので、ベジタリアンバーガーをHit-chan特製バンズで食べていました。
Brad made himself vegetarian burgers with my homemade buns.
まぁ、感謝祭でやったのはこれだけです。（笑）
Yeah, it's pretty much of what we did on Thanksgiving this year. LOL
考えてみれば食べている物が変わったのとパパママが参加できなかっただけで、やっている事は何も変わってないんですが、やっぱり感謝祭ディナーが感謝祭のお祝いにおいてかなり重要な役割を担っているんだなぁと改めて実感しました。
Well, when I think about our usual Thanksgivings, nothing was much different except for what we ate this year and missing Dad&Mom. That fact reminded me how important Thanksgiving dinner is and who you are with to celebrate Thanksgiving in general.
とりあえず、皆で記念撮影。結構上手く撮れました。
Anyways, I took a picture of us at least and it turned out good.
そんな訳で、我が家の今年の感謝祭はこんな感じで過ぎていきました。
Okay, this is all about how we spent Thanksgiving day this year.
パパママと一緒に出来なかったのは残念でしたが、それでもブラッド君と改めて色んな事に感謝する時間を持てて良かったです。
It was too bad that we could do that with Dad&Mom, but I was still grateful that we could have Brad and spent a day together to remind ourselves how blessed we were with so many things.
という訳で、今日はこの辺で～！！！読んで下さってありがとうございました！！！
Okay, this is all for today. Thanks for reading again!!!
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