Happy Thanksgiving!

On this Thanksgiving I am really missing my family a lot. I really miss traditional Thanksgiving with my family at our house. We would sleep in and wake up to the sound of a Thanksgiving Day Parade or a Thanksgiving Football game. We'd have special food like turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls, candied yams, stuffing, my famous green bean casserole, olives to put on our fingers, angel eggs (also made by me) and of course pumpkin pie. We'd all eat wayyyyy too much and then have leftovers later. My mommy would make me turkey and rice soup the next day and we'd eat turkey sandwiches. We'd get up the next day and shop until we dropped. Then we'd come home and start a relay line from the garage to the house. Dad would crawl in the attic and then hand a box to mom, who then handed it to me, and I would hand it to Katie to take into the house. We'd put up our tree and decorate our house like crazy. Katie and I would have our own Christmas trees that we would put in our bedrooms. Momma had the living room tree, dad had a 3 or 4 foot tree in mom and dad's room, mine was 2 or 3 feet tall and Katie had the small one (she never escapes getting the smallest, oldest and hand me downs of everything!) My tree had beautiful glass and crystal ornaments and Katie's of course had no them whatsoever! :o) We'd make hot chocolate and all work outside putting up Christmas lights. Dad was always on the roof putting up the lights and me, mom and Katie worked on the fences and around the yard. We'd have Christmas music playing inside the house as we worked outside. Mom would always refill our hot chocolate and it was so much fun. I miss this. As I sit here with tears pouring down my face remembering how great our traditions were I hope I can create those same special memories for my kids someday.