Day 26 – November 26 – Thanksgiving Day - “What traditions are you grateful for?”
As the years
go by, and as every day of 2020 sometimes seems like a year, our traditions
have waned, and this year they have pretty much died.
Today is
Thanksgiving Day, and I do give thanks that my family and I are healthy,
because when health is gone, nothing else matters much. Every Thanksgiving Day
since I was born, I have gathered with extended family to eat, remember, and
enjoy the togetherness. It is the one
day of the whole year some of us see each other. There is always plenty of
food, the parade on TV, the men falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV while
the women clean up the table and the kitchen, and enjoy some once-a-year girl
time.
At the end
of the day, we all hug and promise to text, call or visit more often… but we
never do, which makes the Thanksgiving Day mini-family-reunion all the more
special, and IMPORTANT.
Not this year.
Not 2020.
It is so
very strange this year. I’m not somebody to give up easily, though. This year
there is no big family gathering. This year our Thanksgiving feast includes
just Aaron and me. Mark and Michelle are coming over to sit on the porch and talk
a while. So no turkey. No casseroles and
deviled eggs. No pumpkin and pecan pies. Like I said, I don’t give up easily. I
did a crockpot chicken, and quartered it. Instead of huge casseroles, I did
tiny casseroles in aluminum “pans” and carried Thanksgiving dinner around to
Mark and Michelle and several friends who can’t gather, and who will be pretty
much alone today.
I think
Christmas will be similar.
I think New
Years Eve and New Years Day will too.
I think the traditions of the past will remain
in the past. Once a tradition is dropped, it is very hard to renew it
later. So thank you Lord, for 74 years
of happy, warm traditions.
They can
take away the traditions, but they can’t take away my memories of them.
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