THANKS GIVING

Yes, folks it's that time of year again. Time to cook all night and day to set the table with the most delectable of eats only to have your family ruin it. Yes, Thanks Giving has been long since associated with the family tales of yesteryear, good or bad, funny or sad. It seems everyone has a bone to pick with everyone else and for some reason they most likely wait for Thanks Giving to unload, why? My family is no different.

Most of our stories though have been funny ones, Thank You God. My Mother is the Head Chef in the family so Turkey Day is hers. She starts cooking the night before and works all the way up to time to sit down and eat. She won't go first, even though she's the one who put all of this together. Nope it's the Grand-Kids, my Brother, Sister & her husband, Me, my Dad and finally after everyone else has plates full, drinks and seated, will she then fix her plate.  We try every year to get her to go first so she can sit down and rest after fixing one heck of a meal to no avail.  

And yet I'm Thankful for that. Thankful that I have a family and warm home to go to on this mother of all Family Holidays. Thankful for the family that will sit down to eat with me. Thankful for the food most of all. Thankful for one more year of the guessing game to see if this year is the year that so-and-so blows their top and ends up out on the lawn in a knock down drag out with so-and-so in front of all the neighbors until finally Mom comes out with a switch and puts and end to it. 

Yeah, any Holiday or Occasion where you get the whole family together under one roof for any length of time is a powder keg waiting to blow. Let's hope it's on the funny side this time, but to tell the truth either way I'm entertained. Well, Thank You Dear God, for This Life I'm Given-warts and all........