It’s Saturday Night
Time for Some More Genealogy Fun
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:
A) This is a fun meme from 2016, thanks to Suzanne McClendon on the P.S. Annie blog for the links.
B) Fill in the blanks for these four statements:
1. One Thanksgiving tradition I have is __________________________.
2. Black Friday ______________________________________________.
3. The best part about Thanksgiving Day is _______________________.
4. One Thanksgiving, _________________________________________.
One Thanksgiving tradition I have is baking pies. I’m not sure when I took over the task of baking the pies from my grandmother, but that is usually my contribution to large family dinners such as Thanksgiving. When I first started baking the pies, the ‘menu’ included pumpkin, pecan and cherry since these were the flavors my grandmother always prepared. Over time, the size of the Thanksgiving gathering has decreased. Since I don’t wish to have a lot of left over pie in my house, I now only prepare a pumpkin pie. In addition to the pie I prepare for my family, I also bake pies for the Thanksgiving dinner our local church hosts. Thus, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is spent preparing and baking pies.
I’ve never been an ‘early morning’ shopper on Black Friday. However, my husband and I have been known to go shopping on Black Friday. This is primarily because we are typically in a larger town for Thanksgiving dinner and thus around the larger stores on Friday to do our Christmas shopping. However, our willingness to be in crowded situations changed when my husband had a serious case of pneumonia. Since that time, we have been content to avoid Black Friday shopping.
For the past several years, Black Friday has turned into a day for baking. Our local church has a cookie sale the first weekend of December to raise funds to send children to church camp. Thus, Black Friday has become an ideal day to do some of this baking.
The best part about Thanksgiving is family. While my family goes in different directions for Thanksgiving, we do spend a weekend together at the lake in October. This fall was the tenth year in which we have gathered around a campfire and we have reservations for again next year.
One Thanksgiving, my husband and I planned to go to Dodge City to my grandparents for Thanksgiving. This was a six hour drive that could not begin until Wednesday afternoon. Unfortunately, a large snow storm hit that week causing us to remain in Seneca. Thankfully, another teacher invited us to spend the day with her and her family.