Name Them One By One
November 21, 2006
This week is the American Holiday, Thanksgiving! I know that there are several BFS Classmates from all over the world but I hope that you will join in our celebration of giving thanks.Our assignment this week is to blog about your plans for Thanksgiving Day.....share your day in any creative form. Please try to include family traditions, your menus, who carves your turkey, do you save the wishbone, the list could go on and on.
I was having a difficult time with this assignment because as a family we really don't have any Thanksgiving traditions to speak of. For years we used to get together with several other families in our congregation that didn't have any family nearby for Thanksgiving. We would all sign up to bring various traditional dishes and meet at the building to spend the day together. There doesn't seem to be as great a need for it, apparently, so we no longer do that.
I tried to think about the Thanksgiving traditions from my childhood, but they felt too painful to contemplate right now. My mother is dying from Alzheimer's and, since she was so central to our Thanksgiving traditions, it made me rather mournful to think about it all.
My mother was a very good cook and she planned far in advance. I, on the other hand, do not always enjoy my forays into the kitchen and have never really put together an entire Thanksgiving dinner on my own. This entire past week I could not think of one thing to say about how our family was going to go about celebrating Thanksgiving.
Thankfully, my beautiful girls stepped in with some wonderful ideas as to how we should celebrate the day. Clara, who has always enjoyed cooking, made a list and went to the store tonight with her father so that she could get up early tomorrow and start making pies. From scratch! She's picked out some rather interesting ones from our Southern Living cookbook. One is an apple-cranberry pie and the other is a cherry-berry pie. Lily, who is a wonderful romantic and is rather good at thinking of how things ought to be, has come up with some new traditions for our family. She has suggested that we play very many games and watch The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe together. Lily went to see the movie at the theater and we have had the DVD forever, it seems. We were all just waiting for a nice day for all of us to watch it together. Lily's ideas seemed most agreeable to all.
Now, my little secret. I have ordered a fully pre-cooked Thanksgiving dinner! Laugh if you must, but think of how much more time I will get to spend with my family. And for that I am very thankful.
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Comments:
It sounds like you are going to have a wonderful day, and some wonderful memories in the making.
Posted by: Jenny in Ca at November 22, 2006 3:41 AM
we don't have any traditions yet either, we are split between 3 sets of grandparents-we only had thanksgiving at home once...and everyone was alittle miffed at us. someday... but, I am really looking forward to this year, my husband's family is large, and everyone will be here-it will be wonderful to have everyone together.
blessings to you this week,
Jenny -found you by way of WW!
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