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There's a place here in Amarillo called Brush with Art, which is a little art studio where you can paint your own ceramic platters, trays, ornaments, and whatever else pops into your head. Once you're done painting, the Brush with Art workers disappear with your masterpiece and bake it in their kiln for awhile until it comes out toasty and shiny.
We've done a few family nights at Brush with Art. We usually pick something we can all work on together (one year it was a giant popcorn bowl) and decorate it with the creative stylings of the under-10 crowd. This year we chose to make a Thanksgiving platter decorated with turkeys made from our hand prints (with feathers made from our fingers). We were able to fit everyone's hand-turkeys on the front of the platter except mine. My hands, good for coin tricks, are no good for squeezing into small spaces, so I got the bottom of the platter all to myself.
The kids always like Brush with Art, especially during family night because there are snacks. Our kids love snacks. They love standing next to the snack table. They love the idea of snacks. On our way to the Brush with Art building, we heard them plotting about what snacks they were going to eat and when they were going to eat them.
Here's are two fun facts about turkey: for their first meal on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin ate roasted space turkey wrapped in foil.
Fact number two: wild turkeys sleep in trees. I've never seen this, but I have seen peacocks in trees. It's pretty freaky.
