With all other holidays, there's an exciting build up before - and an "Aw, it's over" afterwards.
But not Thanksgiving. It is the grand beginning of the whole fall/winter holiday season! It single handedly ushers in the boughs of holly and the tidings of comfort and joy! I mean, just watch Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and you'll see! Start with Tom Turkey, and end with the Clause!
Thanksgiving means family, friends, food, fun, and maybe even the occasional fight. We are human after all. But it's all good! Just because the world is so much more mobile than it used to be doesn't mean that families shouldn't make an effort to spend time together.
During the
Trimming the tree, hanging stockings, baking cookies.
Seeing the excitement on the girls faces as they packed their 'Operation Christmas Child' boxes.
Watching the Nativity Story, It's a Wonderful Life, and Scrooge a million times.
Lighting our advent candles and telling stories.
Singing carols.12 - Times we heard "Are we there yet?"
11 - Slightly toxic emissions from a somewhat carsick dog.
10 - Hours in a car to grandma's house.
9 - Minutes we lasted in the cold walking around looking at Christmas lights.
8 - The number of relations I hugged, then whispered to my sis-n-law "Who was that?"
7 - Number of times I heard someone bemoan, "Why did I have that second piece of pie!"
6 - Snowflakes the girls caught on their tongues!
5 - Yells at the T.V. "Come on ref! That was interference!"
4 - Homes to visit on our four day mini-vaca.
3 - Loose animals at the farm. Two horses and one bull -
looking for love in all the wrong places!
2 - Huge family dinners!
1 - Beautiful brand new niece!
Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful. . .
Welcome Christmas!!!
Ang,
ReplyDeleteSorry we did not get to see you all while you were in the area with fam. Of course, our whole tribe was here and bezzzzeeeee as the proverbial beavers - probably like yours! Are you coming up over Christmas?
Jim-Dad