Twice baked potatoes, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, stuffing, apple pie (for me), pumpkin pie (for my parents), biscuits, turkey of course and cranberry sauce for my mom is the year after year Thanksgiving menu, and it never gets old.
I look forward to Thanksgiving every year, there’s something about Thanksgiving that warms my heart so, more than Christmas oddly enough.
Thanksgiving, to me, is about family coming together, sitting around and just spending time together doing nothing or whatever it is a particular family has a tradition of doing.
My family isn’t big, well actually it’s just my mom, my dad, and myself every year for Thanksgiving and that really is okay with me because that’s all I have never known. I have no brothers or sisters, and all of my grandparents are deceased, so it’s just us.
My family and I sit around, eat all day, watch movies, and sleep and it’s awesome. I really couldn’t ask for anything better.
For some reason every year my mom asks, “Now what would you like special this year for Thanksgiving dinner?” And I really have no idea why she asks because every year it’s the same answer, twice backed potatoes.
So the yearly routine goes as follows: we get up around 11 a.m. or so have hot chocolate, read the newspapers finding where all the good deals for black Friday are, then my parents usually banter for about an hour or so about what time they should put the turkey in oven. By the time they are done trying to figure that out, they both come to the realization that it should have gone in about an hour ago, so they frantically put it in, it’s quite funny to watch actually.
About this time we are usually eating cheese and crackers about to pop in the first movie, really great for our metabolism considering Thanksgiving is the single day that people eat the most out of the entire year.
The movie we watch every year, “For the love of the Game,” is truly a great love story. My mom doesn’t even make it half way through the movie and she’s already asleep, one year she didn’t even make it past the opening credits, which was quite sad to say the least. Come to think of it I have no idea why she calls it “our” movie when she can never watch it with me except maybe one Thanksgiving a while ago.
Continuing on.
Somewhere along the line I fall asleep too and catch up on all the sleep I have been deprived of being so busy with school and work during the semester. And after we all wake up from our catnaps it is usually time for us to eat the big dinner, which usually lasts about 15 minutes or so.
My mom’s famous phrase, “Cook all day for 15 minutes of eating,” which I couldn’t agree with more.
Then we take one look at the kitchen with our full bellies and all simultaneously let out this horrible groan and can’t believe we actually have to clean up that entire mess that we call our kitchen.
After the cleanup, which usually takes a half hour at least, we struggle back over to couch and plop down exhausted, fat and full- just the way it should be.
About an hour after that it’s time for apple pie for me and pumpkin for my parents, thus concluding our quiet, uneventful Thanksgiving tradition with just the three of us.
I should mention that every Thanksgiving night I go to bed thinking “I am never eating again, I really do mean it this time” and that usually lasts for about three hours when I’m back in the kitchen eating leftovers.
2 comments:
Two things:
1. Apple pie > pumpkin pie. Good call.
2. Hooray for only children / small families. Haha.
I like twice-baked potatoes, too... Though I think they have about 6 million calories per bite.
More - or more details - about why T-Day is such a favorite would have made this stronger.
As would either some explanation - or a link - about the movie that's watched annually.
Is it a turkey day classic, or sports oriented?
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