Well it is that time of year again. What time is that?
Time to forget about waistlines, utiltity bills, mowing the grass....(just kidding about the utility bill thing....though I do know people who "forget" to pay those things this time of year). Tommorow is thanksgiving day, the official start of the holiday season.
It is snowing here right now...a perfect start to the holidays. It is also cold and windy outside.
I have had the last three days off from work and alas...have to report back to work tommorow to feed a bunch of people who are forsaking the "traditional family gathering" at someone's home. Why do people go "out to eat" on thanksgiving?? If I had the choice not to work....I would surly try to be with some kind friendly people enjoying the day in a nice warm house.
It is funny how when one grows up, that the holidays loose alot of their "magic" that were remembered so fondly when we were kids. Maybe it is the whole thing about not believing in Santa Clause anymore....but I think there is a little more to it than that.
The things I most remember about Thanksgiving were.....
-Getting up early on thanksgiving day to watch the "Macy's Parade"
-Smelling the turkey and stuffing cooking in our kitchen.....and "stealing" a pickle or an olive from the relish tray "before dinner"
-Watching my mom do a million things at once to get ready to feed all of our mouths and wondering how she did it all (until I had to cook dinner for 100 people when my cook called in sick at a restuarant I managed a few years ago)....
-Taking a nap in the "lazy boy recliner" after dinner while everyone faught over wheather to watch the football game or watch a holiday movie.....
-Hoping for that snow on that day so we could go out and play in it (after the nap of course)
-Scrounging for "leftovers" in the fridge not 4 hours after dinner had been served
-Watching the first holiday shows that evening (dad always won out and got his football game I think)
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(The holiday shows from now until xmas in my area....ya!
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/nov04/277948.asp)
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-Falling asleep and knowing that I didnt have to go to school the next day and that I had a whole 3 days to exlplore and have fun....
There were also thanksgivings that we traveled to the farm to have dinner with my grandparents and sometimes a number of the millions of cousins and aunts and uncles I seem to have.
I dont remember alot about those thanksgiving as I was very young but I do recall always looking forward to sitting close to that "woodburning stove" while sitting on my grandpa's lap (as long as he didnt spit his chewing tobacco into that coffee can while I was on his lap) and exploring outside.
The barn where the cows were (and usually my uncle Richard and my great uncle Johnny milking the cows or doing whatever they did in that barn) and all the wild cats scurrying about, and walking among and between all the stalls, hoping not to step into "cow dung" or something else. There were times that I remember sneaking up into the hayloft and falling asleep on a bale of hay...and then continuing my adventures by watching the chickens in their shack (they sure knew they were lucky on that day.....I would think) and just exploring and wondering among all the sheds and outbuildings, sometimes with a cousin or two, sometimes by myself.
There are so many memories of those years...these are just a few.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
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