Thanksgiving 2008

Another Thanksgiving come and gone. I was lucky enough to have lots of family here. Mom came down with NB, Frankie, and Mugsie on Thanksgiving day and got to stay through today. Thanksgiving dinner was in Stewartville, but some time at my house on Saturday and Sunday too. Enjoy the pictures, it was sure fun to have everyone here, but we missed Dad.

Love & Wrestling

Since NB is now making me pay to suggest names (see 3c's blog), I decided to post some I found here. These are the names of the children (under 13) who were at the first Thanksgiving in 1621.

Bartholomew, Mary & Remember Allerton,

Love & Wrestling Brewster,

Humility Cooper,

Samuel Eaton,

Damaris & Oceanus Hopkins,

Desire Minter,

Richard More,

Resolved & Peregrine White.

Love and Wrestling Brewster were brothers. How do parents decide which son to name Love, and which to name Wrestling? There's the whole nature versus nurture debate about names, but it seems like having either of those names is going to affect your personality somehow, isn't it?

Gotta love some of those other names too. Remember. Resolved. Humility. All seem like good Puritan names. Desire on the other hand...seems like her parents may have been the hippies of the group. And Oceanus, didn't they want to forget that trip?

Didn't I hear somewhere that one branch of our ancestors may have come over on the Mayflower? So these are actually family names. nota bene NB

Anyway, I love these names and as you all know, love coming up with pet names for those I love. I'm definately going to have to add these to my aresnal.

p.s. I pulled these from the Pilgram Hall of Fame website, which you can view here