Today we attended a "Bread Celebration" at Juliette's preschool. What is a Bread Celebration, you might be wondering? Well, it's really just something the preschool teachers made up as a way to do something for Thanksgiving, but that wasn't specific to America (since there are some kids from Juliette's class that have other cultural backgrounds and traditions). One of the things, though, that is common across the world, though, is the eating of bread as part of their celebrations/holidays, so that is why they chose to have a Bread Celebration. The teachers asked each family to bring a bread that is a favorite for them or a part of their holiday celebrations. We chose to bring Juliette's favorite bread item, muffins--specifically blueberry muffins and chocolate chip muffins.

The Bread Celebration took place in the teachers' lounge in the building that Juliette's preschool is in. (The building serves as UL's Family Sciences building, as well as Fashion & Merchandising, among other majors, but it used to be an elementary school before it was acquired by UL and zoned into the campus, so that is why it has a teachers' lounge.) When we arrived, Juliette met us at the door and escorted us to our table.

On the table was a little bag with her turkey hand print on it and a poem about it. (There were some things in the bag as well...a free loaf of bread from one of the bakeries, a card, some seeds to plant something.)

Also on the table was all the kids' answers to "Thanksgiving is..."

Once all the parents arrived, they passed out little jars that we had to shake to make our own butter. (Apparently, if you put heavy cream in a jar and shake it up, it makes butter...never knew that until today!)

Here is Juliette shaking her butter jar.

And then Juliette served us our choice of various breads. There were muffins, croissants, Irish soda bread, cinnamon rolls, gingerbread, french bread, tortillas, raisin bread, etc. I was so afraid Juliette was going to dump that tray when she was bringing it to us--from across the room--but she was a little pro.

This is what our butter ended up looking like!

Our little family!

We'll be spending Thanksgiving at my parents this year (we trade off years). All my family will be there, so it will be a full house, but I'm looking forward to it. I hope everyone else has a wonderful Thanksgiving!