Major holidays - the flood of memories, nostalgia, turkeys dry or moist or great or awful....

[NRaleighLiberal]

It's certainly a day when the videotape and picture albums of our lives play non-stop. To all DUers - happy or sad, grieving or celebrating....have a wonderful day...

For me - whether it is remembering dressing up like a pilgrim to participate in our church's Thanksgiving day ritual (yes, there are pictures...no, I am not posting them), pitching in with the church community to feed the area hungry for a big sit down dinner with all of the fixings....recalling the time my mom forgot to turn on the oven, the chaotic family dinners at grandparents' homes being faced with strange (and some not so wonderful) foods....creating our own family dinner rituals with our kids....being so thankful that both our daughters are doing well.....and remembering those parents no longer with us, or unhappy with their current plight in life...

it is quite a day. We are 3 hours from dinner here, preparing to hit the kitchen, dogs and cats scrambling around the house, snug in our warm house on this cold morning. Best wishes to you all! It's a privilege to be here to share ideas and stories with you all!

[Tobin S.]

1. Nice post.

We like you, too, NRL, even though the lack of replies to your thread may not seem to indicate that. (I can shame with the best of them. Learned it from my mother.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. .

hope you are having a wonderful day!

[Tobin S.]

3. I had a great day.

I slept in until noon. That in itself was glorious. A little later in the day I had dinner with my wife, mother-in-law and father-in-law, and a few friends. Now my wife and I are taking it easy. Overall, a very relaxing and restorative day. I hope yours was just as good.

[pintobean]

4. I hope you're having a wonderful day, NRL.

It's our first Thanksgiving without my mom. My wife made this a very nice day, as she always does.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. My best memory of Thanksgiving

was probably in elementary school. We'd sing "Over the River and Through the Woods" in music class, then on Thanksgiving Day we would go to grandmother's house (of course, no horse, no sleigh, and not even any snow). But she had a Currier and Ives calendar hanging up in the kitchen, and the picture for November sometimes showed people riding in a sleigh, and that helped to set the mood.