Thanksgiving! Now That’s More Like It!

If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time then you know that when it comes to Thanksgiving and the holidays I tend to get nostalgic and slightly depressed. For years we’ve been alone for Thanksgiving. In the past I tried to hide my disappointment of this solo holiday by inviting college kids over for a feast or venturing through rain, snow, sleet and hail, to visit East Coast relatives. I’ve even whined a bit about over the 15 years we’ve lived in this town no one had invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner.

Some years I did it up big. Turkey and all the trimmings, but my young family didn’t appreciate my efforts. One year we order Thanksgiving to go and when my hubby came home with individual plastic containers less generous than the Salvation Army helpings, well my Thanksgiving depression took on a whole new level.

Last year, my family drove to my sister’s house five hours away. She’d moved to my neck of the woods and I can honestly say it felt a little like old times. This year Thanksgiving was in our new home. With boxes strewn all over the place and not everything unpacked in the kitchen our numbers were 14. My family. My mom. My sister’s family. A friend and her family… and later my old neighbors stopped by with their adult son and grandson. My friend brought the turkey and I had my mom and sister to help make all the other stuff and by the time dinner rolled around, I was wiped out. I enjoyed the food and fellowship, but I was ready to crash! Instead I spent a couple of hours in front of the television.

It was the best Thanksgiving in years! How did you spend your day!