What If We Just Skipped Thanksgiving This Year?
Oh, Thanksgiving. It sneaks up on you after Halloween just when everybody’s talking about Christmas. Just try hunting for a fall wreath at Michaels in November—that ship sailed two months ago.
Thanksgiving always seems to take everybody by surprise, but folks still travel far and wide to their families’ houses every year to commemorate this day by sharing a meal (or at least they used to, hello 2020).
Many people work at their jobs right up through the day before. Then they stay up half the night cooking whatever they promised to bring. Then they get up in the wee hours, exhausted from work and cooking and corralling their kids, to get on the road to grandma’s house. Seems like a lot of unnecessary pressure. And yet…
Last year, my husband, kids and I decided we would skip Thanksgiving and spend the whole week at the beach. On that Thursday, we ate BBQ at a local joint. No turkey, no sweet potatoes, no corn casserole. No pie.
It sucked.
We missed our parents. We missed the food. We missed the football. We missed the nap. Did we maybe even miss the clean-up?
This year we’re taking Thanksgiving back. The kids will be home all week. The hubs will smoke a turkey in his Big Green Egg. And we will invade my parents’ house for a proper Thanksgiving meal cooked mostly by my mom (because duh, she does it the best). And we will enjoy our family, the food, the football, the nap… and maybe even the clean-up.
Because that’s what Thanksgiving is.
Christy Rosen Clement is a Pricing Strategy Advisor®, Seller Representative Specialist®, Military Relocation Professional® and REALTOR® at Palermo Real Estate Professionals in South Tampa
