2. I feel bad for Thanksgiving! I am NOT one of those people who decorate early (or hardly at all), or turn on the lights mid-November, or get out the Christmas music in October, or start shopping in August. I'm not. Because I feel bad for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday that focuses on food and family, yes food in the forefront, but always enjoyed by family. I think it is ridiculous that we have become so overly obsessed with Christmas that we no longer take the time to appropriately celebrate Thanksgiving. Instead we (mostly meaning my overly-decorated Mother) put away the Thanksgiving decorations away the week before Thanksgiving and fill the house with Christmas. Then on 'the day' we spend hours enveloped in Black Friday ads, pushing the start of the Christmas season to a ridiculous 3 AM.
I enjoy the spirit of Thanksgiving. I like spending hours cooking and preparing in a crowded kitchen, busying the kids making paper turkeys for place cards, and lounging exhausted on the couch afterward. I also enjoy Black Friday, and the beginning of the holiday season. But I sure to do wish that Christmas would wait its turn, and let Thanksgiving have its moment in the spotlight.
PS - When I searched "Happy Thanksgiving" to find above picture, there on the screen were a smattering of turkeys, and a big fat "Merry Christmas".
