Our Thanksgiving Day was not only a day of thanks, it was also a day of total opposites. For almost 30 years, we hosted giant Thanksgiving dinners for family and friends.
After dinner we spent hours cleaning up the kitchen and playing board games. Now, with Samantha, Jake and George happily settled in Silicon Valley, our Thanksgiving Day celebrations consist of small gatherings where somebody else does the dishes, we are the youngest participants and .... believe it or not, I am the tallest.
After dinner we spent hours cleaning up the kitchen and playing board games. Now, with Samantha, Jake and George happily settled in Silicon Valley, our Thanksgiving Day celebrations consist of small gatherings where somebody else does the dishes, we are the youngest participants and .... believe it or not, I am the tallest.
In recent years, our Thanksgiving afternoons have been consumed with quiet naps. This year, we joined friends at their comfortable home for an afternoon of wholesome family fun and youthful vitality. We were not even close to being the youngest nor was I even close to being the tallest. There was nothing quiet or nap-like about it. I helped build fun stuff ...
while Helen engaged in a lively (and very serious) game of spoons.
Speaking of opposites ... 1,500 miles away, Samantha, Jake and George spent Thanksgiving Day having a picnic on the beach with Beth. George played in the sand and waded into the Pacific Ocean.
Despite the wide range of Thanksgiving opposites ... the one common similarity is that we are all very thankful for our freedom, our family and our friends.
Happy Thanksgiving 2014
1 comment:
Beautiful post. Happy thanksgiving to, you, too.
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