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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (13897)	11/29/1997 7:08:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi, Mephisto!!! Well, we did not have Chinese food this year for Thanksgiving, since my daughter kept pointedly asking how we were going to celebrate, and I sensed it was a big deal for her to be a little traditional. So she and I cooked all day, starting at seven in the morning, and the feast was finally ready at 4:30 in the afternoon. While we were absolutely melting in the kitchen, opening the windows so that we didn't swoon and fall onto the flaming stove, my husband was building and stoking a monstrous wood fire in the livingroom, lying like a contented housecat on the couch in front of it snoozing most of the day. About midafternoon, Briana said, "Mommy, what's the deal with Thanksgiving, anyway? The women do all, the work, and the men just eat?" "Ahhh," I said, "You've got it!" Anyway, next year when I start mumbling about Chinese food and a movie, I think she will happily agree!!! It took all day to prepare, and exactly fifteen minutes to eat. The women in our little family were exhausted!!!! My husband did do the centerpiece, which I nicknamed Pumpkin Town, because instead of greenery and pyrancantha berries and pine cones with a few candles here and there like I do it, very gracefully and artistically I might add, it was an actual structure with tiny pumpkin skyscrapers. One cool thing about it is that he worked three different Native American women clay figurines into it, one of them kneeling, laboring over a grindstone (just like I felt)! That evening we watched Simpsons reruns on tv, and it was a Thanksgiving episode where Lisa does an elaborate centerpiece and Bart throws it into the fire, making fun of it, remarkably like our experience. We did not throw the centerpiece into the fire, and I am still looking at it right now, actually, but Briana and I could not stop giggling about it all through dinner!! What did you do on Thanksgiving, Mephisto? I bet you had some interesting experience!! Hey, look everyone, almost 14,000 entries at the Feelings thread!!! I feel like writing this weekend, and will be answering everyone's posts really soon. Maybe we can wipe out the rest of the thirteens!!!