We all agreed it was a Thanksgiving of change. It permeated the air, drifting from family member to family member tickling each of us with a sense of holiday reshaping and melancholy. Thanksgiving as it has been for the past 12 years would be no more. It was the end of an era.
But endings are really just beginnings. The location will change and the faces will shift as family members are added and subtracted over the course of time but there will always be the constants.
The turkey will be carved and the potatoes mashed. The family will gather around the table; the blessing will be offered. Stories will be repeated; a game of Uno will be initiated. Someone will cheat. Football will be watched; the turkey bowl played. Left-overs will be consumed and someone will complain about something, anything just to complain. The old folks will tell the younger generation they are going a cruise next year...alone. And everyone will laugh.
I guess it's true. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
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This is a year of change in our family traditions as well. I have to confess to feeling lost - without an anchor this year. Someone said to me the other day that the birth of a baby makes everything better. This is a very good year for the birth of a new baby into our family. We are waiting anxiously for this new arrival - within the next day or so! The beat does go on....
I guess I am comforted by the thought that I wasn't alone in feeling this way...It was different, for sure...I am already looking forward to what the Spring brings...flowers...sunshine...you!
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