Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving. It has to be my all-time-favorite holiday. Anyone can love Christmas (which I do). Really smart people (who are Christians) like Easter. I think Easter gets overlooked and becomes an excuse to eat chocolate and ham, which are good things in and of themselves, but I am not always as committed to celebrating Easter as it should be observed. But Thanksgiving...I really like this holiday. First, it is in November, probably hands down my favorite month. Lots of exceptional things have happened to me in November. (I could tell you what those things are, but where is the mystery in that?) Furthermore, it is really Fall, but has the potential of being Winter. Because of this, you may get snow, but you will also get lovely Fallish days. And I love a good Fallish day. But Thanksgiving is special because it is all about celebrating all the good things in our lives and being grateful for them. (We are often so negative.) It is about being with people you love and eating really good food. It is about spending time together, working together, cleaning together, just being, you got it, together. And there are no gifts involved. I think it is one of the few holidays that does not involve gift-giving. Now, I like gifts. I like giving them; I like getting them. I like giving out candy at Halloween. I like hiding chocolate filled plastic eggs for people to find. I like wrapping silly little stocking stuffers for Christmas. I like it all. But, Thanksgiving does not have that. And, I feel the need to defend Thanksgiving. It gets squished with the onslaught of Christmas. I think it is important to pause to be thankful. So often I am not. I am crabby, cranky, thoughtless, short-tempered, over anxious, and all those negative things which makes me challenging to be around. So, bring on the turkey! Bring on the stuffing, squash, potatoes, cranberries, the all important Green Bean Casserole, and the pies! Fruit and chocolate alike. Lets celebrate the heck out of it all!