Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all eat well and have fun. I am headed for my grandmother's provided the weather doesn't truly hate me - which is looking possible...
For me - thanksgiving is great but it's the day after thanksgiving that gets my blood pumping. No. I don't go shopping. I wouldn't want to be around that many people if you paid me! The day after Thanksgiving, I get to pull out the boxes - all 36 of them (truly not an exaggeration) and begin the task of decorating for the holidays. Most of my decorations have been passed down - most of them I grew up with as they were my mothers. The big exception are my dishes - my beautiful christmas dishes - all decorated with scenes from "T'was the Night Before Christmas" and I love them. They are the first (and still only) dishes that are just mine - not my mother's first - all my other dishes were hers first. I love the holidays - so many memories for me and it's the only time of year where they are almost all good memories. I love this time of year! I must continue the preparation for Friday now... I've got my 'everyday' decorations to take down and store so that I'll have a blank slate on which to settle in every santa, snowman, reindeer, and tree... yay winter.
~S
Posted by Shade53 at November 23, 2005 04:25 PM