Sunday, November 23, 2008

First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving used to be my favorite holiday. That was before I started working retail. Now, I enjoy a love/hate relationship with Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving at our little house in Nashville were legendary affairs, usually involving three turkeys, two kinds of stuffing, four vegetables, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry relish and cranberry chutney, 6 pies and a pumpkin cheesecake. Don't forget the two trays of assorted vegetables and the shrimp mold. I would cook for two weeks and relish feeding my extended family. Now, I just think about eating the turkey t.v. dinners.


Thanksgiving in California has been quite different. There was the year of the bbq bird, where I cried all the way home, and there was last year, where I was one month away from giving birth, and happy that someone else was cooking the turkey. It was also the first Thanksgiving where I ate ham.


This year it will be a small family affair, and Lucas will be introduced to turkey and all the trimmings. And it will be to bed early, not to get up to look for bargains, but to sell them to early morning shoppers. But on Thanksgiving day, I will be thankful for my immediate family, a loving husband who is more adept at housekeeping than I am, and our little boy, who we prayed for on so many Thanksgivings in years past. Six years ago, we were visiting a fertility specialist who was optimistic about my chances of conception, and then, on Thanksgiving day, with a house full of family, I learned I was not pregnant, even after all of the treatments we had endured for the previous few months. Now, looking at my precious, precious little boy, I know he was totally worth wait, and I am excited to see his little face light up when he takes his first bite of turkey and dressing. He has made every holiday this year my favorite holiday.

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