The weather is really weird around here. It was really cold, and yesterday it snowed a little bit, and now today is a little warmer and tomorrow is supposed to be like 60. This is why everyone gets sick at this time of year...the constant temperature change!
I assume that everyone has their Thanksgiving plans all ironed out. This is my favorite holiday, and I also think it is really kind of a quintessentially American day. It is my favorite holiday because it is all about family and being together and being grateful, and it doesn't include any of the pressures of Christmas...there is no three week buildup. It is just a reason to get together, eat and enjoy each other.
I guess there is a part of me that always wished I could spend Thanksgiving with my own healthy and functional family, but that was just never to be. But that's OK...there are people I love that treat me better than my own family ever did, and I get to spend time with them, thinking about how fortunate I am. And I am not totally without family, either...I am incredibly lucky to be able to spend the day with my little sister, who really is my most favorite person:-) I am lucky to spend every day with her!
OK, that is a little bit sappy, I know. And if I write tomorrow morning, it will be much sappier! I am leaving work early today...one of the teachers at Munchkin's school is taking some of the kids to a homeless shelter to help serve Thanksgiving dinner, and I offered to help. I think it is a really neat thing for the kids to do, and I am glad that Munchkin is excited to participate. To be really honest, the kids she goes to school with can probably benefit from seeing the other end of the social spectrum. Not that most of them are really snotty or entitled, but they definitely live in a very abnormal slice of the social universe...it is good for them to know what else is out there.
So we are gonna do that this afternoon, and then maybe we will move chicken fingers up a day and do that tonight:-)
A very, very Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Uh, oh...look who is feeling sappy again
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Serving Thanksgiving dinner is a great way to expose children to the notion that we have an obligation to help those who have less than us too. One of the upsides of going to public school is that I was around children who were poor, and it reminded me that my "reality" is much different than others'. So yeah for Munchkin's teacher for planning this!
And I agree about Thanksgiving....all the good food and family without decorations, gifts, commercialism, and stress.
Happy Thanksgiving!! Enjoy it with your extended family :)
"t is my favorite holiday because it is all about family and being together and being grateful, and it doesn't include any of the pressures of Christmas."
You could not have said that any better!
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