For a few short years, my family had a sweet tradition. My dad and step-mom would meet us in NY to celebrate Thanksgiving with my very old grandmother. We would scoop the kids up right after their pre-school Thanksgiving feasts and get ourselves to the city. We'd eat, see the Big Apple Circus, go to the movies and do little-kid and old great-gramma things together. I am specifically remembering the year of the stuffed Teletubbies. I think we had Tinky-Winky and Lala, maybe it was Po.
Not so slowly, like the last frame of each America's Next Top Model weekly show, my beloveds died and faded from the picture. First great-gramma Rose, then my dad. Visits to NY ceased and Teletubbies had been donated away.
Now my Thanksgiving is with dear friends-rotating to one another's homes each year. There will be great food, generous drink, good laughter and lots of love.
I keep my dad and my grandmother with me throughout the year. (My mom too, but that is another story.) For some reason, today, the day before Thanksgiving, I am recalling the hectic scooping up of the children from school, excitedly sharing details of their Thanksgiving feasts, trying not to ruin their artistic creations in crazy travel and packing their costumes carefully for the family celebration.
I love today and I am grateful to be celebrating the holiday with friends and my little family. But really, I do want to know -- where did the time go?
Not so slowly, like the last frame of each America's Next Top Model weekly show, my beloveds died and faded from the picture. First great-gramma Rose, then my dad. Visits to NY ceased and Teletubbies had been donated away.
Now my Thanksgiving is with dear friends-rotating to one another's homes each year. There will be great food, generous drink, good laughter and lots of love.
I keep my dad and my grandmother with me throughout the year. (My mom too, but that is another story.) For some reason, today, the day before Thanksgiving, I am recalling the hectic scooping up of the children from school, excitedly sharing details of their Thanksgiving feasts, trying not to ruin their artistic creations in crazy travel and packing their costumes carefully for the family celebration.
I love today and I am grateful to be celebrating the holiday with friends and my little family. But really, I do want to know -- where did the time go?
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