Thanksgiving

Bring on the turkey, it is Thanksgiving time.  A time filled with food, family, and friends. I time for laughter and coming together. Everyone has their different traditions for Thanksgiving. Mine consists of either lunch or dinner, which ever works with everyone’s hectic schedules, at my mom’s parent’s house. Then usually the opposite meal, lunch or dinner, with my dad’s side of the family. We used to celebrate Thanksgiving for my dad’s side at his parent’s house but since my grandma died a couple years ago we haven’t spent a holiday in that house again. It’s too hard on everyone for it to be at my grandparent’s house, it is especially hard on my grandpa. So we decided that we would move all our holidays right next door to my aunt and uncle’s house. There may be less space but no one can handle being in my grandparent’s house around the holidays. There are so many memories and it is too painful to have them all rush back around the holidays. The holidays are supposed to be a time of happiness and that house would just bring sadness. Sure the memories are happy ones but it hurts to remember them sometimes. Regardless of where my Thanksgiving is spent, it is a time for me to look back on everything I have in life and to be thankful for it.

I have more than I could ever need, but don’t most kids now a days. Sometimes I need to stop focusing on all the little material things in life. If I only focus on material things, I will never be satisfied. There will always be something bigger and better out there. I need to be thankful for the simple things in life like a roof over my head, a family that loves me, parents that are still together and very much in love, friends who love and support me, and the love of a God who is so much bigger and more powerful than I could ever imagine. Thanksgiving is a time to just sit back and enjoy the little things in life.