Iraqi Thanksgiving

For all of you who attended our festive pre-Thankgiving feast on Sunday, I wanted to share the email Kate got from Eman, one of the daughters in the Hassan family. The Hassans are from Iraq, and came to our home Sunday night for a Thanksgiving dinner (yes, we are celebrating twice this year - we leave for sunny southern Califonia today!)

They are a very sweet family, and this was their first Thanksgiving dinner - they just came to the U.S. this spring as refugees. They also spent the Fourth of July with us - such a treat!

hi kate and neil
we went to your home in Nov/23/08 your family celebrate thanks giving it was really fun we have a lot of fun it was our first thanks giving it's really good and your mam she made delicious food we really like it and we met your young brother and your cousing but we really miss youo and neil we can't wait to see you soon LOVE YOU eman