Family and Thanksgiving

The next Carnival of Family Life is supposed to have posts about Thanksgiving.

Well, except for last year, we haven't celebrated Thanksgiving for 36 years. When I was growing up there were two events on Thanksgiving weekend.

One was my cousin's birthday. She's 6 months older than me; we're the oldest of the cousins and now we're the only two here in Israel, and we're the only grandparents. I remember delicious super-sweet birthday cakes from the bakery. I don't remember ever having those at home. My aunt would call out:

"Who wants to eat the flower?"

It was sugary, creamy and delicious, and I was the only customer.

Every Thanksgiving we went to Aunt Pauline's apartment, one of my mothers older sisters. (There were 6 girls and 3 boys in a his-hers-and theirs.) It was very crowded, and I can't tell you that I remember much about the food, except that we even ate in the bedroom, since we couldn't all fit in the livingroom.

Wall-to-wall family! Of course nowadays the term best describes the walls of my house. Honestly, what's the point of hiding family photos in closed albums?

PS photo update
I signed up with both flickr and photobucket (click on sidebar), free versions. I've learned how to do simple stuff on both, but just now I was going to use flickr to post this picture, and it refused, claiming that I had used my monthly allocation. Does photobucket have the same rule? Will I have to keep signing up under different names or just go back to the slow unreliable blogger for photos?