QOTW: What are you doing this year to celebrate Thanksgiving
Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm happy to report that my son's surgery last Monday seems to have gone well. Last year we spent Thanksgiving going crazy trying to control the pain from knee surgery (football injury) and it was two weeks before he was up and walking. This Thanksgiving, we are happy that he is not having a lot of post-op pain from his shoulder surgery (football again!); and the discomfort that he is having is rather manageable through pain medication. We are thankful about this.
So it's that time of year where we try to shift our focus on being thankful for things. This being said...What are you doing this year to celebrate Thanksgiving (regardless to what you believe in or celebrate).
(I never think to include my own answers to the QOTW in the email that I send out. Here's the difficulty that I run into. I send the QOTW out to almost 200 groups. I then receive almost 200 responses back, as I have my groups set to individual mail. Once I send out the QOTW, my internet provider shuts me down for sending out emails for a 24 hour period--I can only send out emails directly through each Yahoo! group....which would take me forever to do one by one. By the next day, I am busy approving messages/members and forget to send in my own responses. But today, I remember to include it in the original email!)
For us, the holidays are a no fuss. My husband works a lot so that I can stay home with the kids...usually six days a week (sometimes seven). When holidays would approach, and he would have a day to spend with us, I would be in the kitchen cook. If I wasn't in the kitchen cooking, I was in there cleaning up. The day that he would be off, I would really see him only at the meal times. So several years ago, my husband decided that a holiday was a holiday for all of us. No cooking or cleaning on that day. We cook hotdogs and hamburgers the day before and we eat them the next day. We generally spend the day watching movies or TV shows together, while eating popcorn in between. Sometimes family will stop by on their way to the homes of others. Both of our parents (and my maternal grandparents) and siblings live either in our county, or in the next county, so they can be seen quite easily or frequently through out the year. We do not go out on holidays, as my husband drives for a living and hates to travel on his day off; plus he wants to spend the time with us since he doesn't see the kids a lot. Add to this that we live with my parents (to help take care of them), and my husband it when my parents go to my sister's and we have some "just the four of us" in the house time.
This year, however, my kids have been grumbling that they would like a turkey (a Thanksgiving dinner in general). My grandfather (90 years old) had a major heart attack a couple of weeks ago and my husband doesn't think he will live for another year; although until this heart attack, my grandfather put me to shame: walked at least 5 miles a day and still did push ups and sit ups! So my husband would like to go and visit my family at my sister's this year "for only an hour." He has also said that a Thanksgiving dinner would be okay--just as long as I ordered one and didn't spend the morning cooking it--woo! hoo! So I guess that is how our Thanksgiving will be this year.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Rebecca Miller
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