pie for life

pie for life:

One of my favorite things about Thanksgiving is that predictable. It seems to be another commercialized holiday that they have all but lost their significance. But Thanksgiving has changed much through the years.

Holidays are always the focus of the entire family and togetherness. It does not matter whether you are with the family Thanksgiving tradition that every thought. For most families, it goes something like this.

Mother rises early to cook the turkey, stuffing his family own mouth. It will be almost every day to prepare all the trimmings like mashed potatoes and rich turkey gravy. At the point of relatives and neighbors to come and Yams Green Bean casserole, or you can call them sweet potatoes.

The fruit salads and other forms of cranberries - sauce, relish, Jello - whatever your family better. Dessert is always pie, especially also Pumpkin pie with one or two other types of leads, such as apple, cherry, mince, or rhubarb.

Activities on Thanksgiving Day is basically the same coast to coast. Children sleeping late, rise only when the aroma of turkey WAFT in their rooms. Migrating in pajamas to flop in front of the TV and watch Thanksgiving Day parades.

Thanksgiving is always the first course of pigskin - a football game. When I grew up in Michigan, he was always between Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers. Then came dinner. After dinnéir, beat everyone in to help with cleanup and dishwasher - except Grandpa, who fell asleep on the couch.

Almost always in the afternoon "game" that involves all family members who were young or young-at-heart. If the weather was hot it can be touch football. Was frozen, if it snowed more likely that he was sled till our toes and our drenched snowsuits.

But why is it important tradition for the holiday, which I hope will never change. It is the part where our blessing, thanking you for evaluating the core of the great privilege of being Americans and for the happy, secure life, we are all here. It does not matter what your level of income in accordance with international standards, all Americans are rich and have much to be thankful for.

So I will order one, make sure that the tradition of counting down our blessings continue until the next generation. It has kept our country strong and our families, and is as American as apple pie, or should I say, Pumpkin pie.