Thanksgiving…hmmmm….seems it used to be a totally separate holiday from Christmas when I was younger. Now the two holidays run together with Christmas items being put in the stores even before Halloween gets done. I don’t know about your town, but in ours, the Christmas lights were cut on over a week ago. Now I do so love Christmas lights but Thanksgiving is getting a bum deal.
For us, and I hope you too, Thanksgiving is about family. I may not see my family members, even those that live close by, very often throughout the year. Some I see more often than others but on this one day of the year we all come together to remember, laugh, love and eat. It’s a tradition.
We have always eaten at the same place. There use to be a table for the grown-ups and one for the kids. We couldn’t wait to get old enough to eat at the big table. We were picky and didn’t eat things that had green squishy chunks or onions. Then one day we arrived and there was no table for kids and we all ate the dressing in spite of the green chunks and liked it! Soon there were more kids but they were included and the kid table went be the wayside. Then those kids had kids. More dishes were introduced and the menu grew. I could hear the younger group telling which dishes had green things that they did not want on their plate.
We started with a group of 16 and now our family group consists of 36. This is something for which to be so thankful. This year we will start a new tradition as we will gather at a different place due to the loss of my dearly beloved aunt. It will be different and there will be a sadness especially among those of us who use to sit at the card table. And we will remember, laugh, love and eat.
God bless our family and yours at this special time of the year.
