Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is approaching fast, and everyone is out shopping for food and believe it or not, Christmas! I went grocery shopping with my mom on Saturday for Thanksgiving stuff and the lines were long, and the store was crowded. We bought stuff to make mashed potatoes, corn , sweet potatoes, pumpkin and apple pie, and of course turkey!

Thanksgiving for us is all about tradition. We always go over to my aunts house and she cooks most of the dinner and we buy all the stuff for her to cook. She lives in a fancy house and it feels much more like a holiday when we go to her house. She makes many varieties for us to eat, and me and my brother are always allowed to bring a friend, boyfriend, or girlfriend. Dinner is usually almost ready when we get there so we sit at the table and talk until its done. As soon is dinner is ready, all the women get up to bring it all to the large table in the living room. Every one eats until they can't eat anymore, but there is always room for dessert.

After dessert and stuff, we usually sit around and talk about what has been happening in our lives. We also pick out the secret Santa out of a hat. Secret Santa is my favorite part, because you write your name on a paper with a few things that you want that is a reasonable price. The person who picks you is supposed to get you one of those things. Then after secret Santa we talk about who is going to have the Christmas party, which has usually been my house, except for the year my dad was sick. After we decide who is having the party, we decide who is going to bring the food and which man is going to dress up as Santa this year for the little kids.

I love Thanksgiving because it means that there is a lot of shopping ahead of me and Christmas is coming. Thanksgiving is also a time to eat all my favorite foods and see all my family. This year a lot of my family is going to be in Florida for Thanksgiving so we will be picking their secret Santa for them and deciding between who is home for all the rest of the stuff. Thanksgiving this year won't be the same as normal, but it will be just as fun. Also this is the first year that my boyfriend and I don't have family activities at the same time, so we can spend the holiday together with each others families.

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for what you have, and to appreciate all the food that is there in front of you. Another thing we usually do at Thanksgiving is give a gift certificate to a grocery store to our church and they give them out to the poor families in the area. That way even the people who don't have much to be thankful for, they still have a large meal on their table to celebrate the family and that things that they do have. Also, we usually pick out an angel from the angel tree at church. Usually there is a kid on the tree who doesn't have much and put what they want for Christmas on a card. Its really sad because sometimes all the kids want is a pair of gloves to keep them warm. Every year we try to pick an angel off the tree so they can get the things they need and be happy for what they have.

Thanksgiving is defiantly one of my favorite holidays because of all these things.