Break from a Break
November Is the Cruelest Month

A New Thanksgiving Tradition

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday because it’s about food and gratitude. But after many years of Cambridge Thanksgivings, it was time to pass the hosting on to the next generation.

(After all, I am eighty).

Fourteen of us, ranging in age from twelve to eighty-eight gathered in Silver Spring, Maryland. Our son Jeremy and his wife Katrina were in charge.

The wild rice stuffing and French Silk Pie were the same as they had been in Cambridge, but Katrina brined the turkey for the first time and the next-door neighbors brought some vegetarian dishes for their non-meat-eating family members that our meat-eating family ate with pleasure.

The food was divine, and there was plenty of good conversation, although some of the teenage vernacular had to be translated into English for the older generation. The readings from our Grateful Jar were funnier than ever. But what I loved the most was the six kids, singing and dancing to music they asked “Alexa” to play for them while they did the cleanup, thus allowing the cooking-weary older generation to rest and hang out together.

The joyful conversations we have when we are surrounded by kids are what I miss most in my eighty-year-old life. And one of the best things about Thanksgiving.

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Iris

Sounds like a lovely Thanksgiving. I too had "kids" - at my house, but one of my DIL's was in charge of the cooking - the others pitched in and helped so I was relieved of kitchen duties.
Grace & Peace, Iris
www.IrisOriginalsRamblings.com

The comments to this entry are closed.