Nov 27 2002
Last Thanksgiving
Last Thanksgiving was the last Thanksgiving my family will likely ever spend together. I was home at Mom and Dad’s house; my sister and her daughter were there, as were my brother and his daughter and my youngest brother and his wife and three kids.
My Dad passed away in February.
This Thanksgiving, I will be here working. Mom is going to spend the holiday with my youngest brother and his wife and kids (now numbering four). My other brother will be traveling out of town to check on some duplexes he is having built as an investment. His daughter is flying out to spend the holidays with her mother and that side of the family. My sister will be staying home with her kids and their kids.
I will only have to work four hours on Thanksgiving Day, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The s/o has the day off. He has been saying that he will have a fire burning in the fireplace and dinner ready when I get home. That would indeed be a pleasant surprise.
Somehow I seem to be having a little trouble finding the holiday spirit this year. I wonder why.
Happy Thanksgiving.
