Thanksgiving anecdotes--the excerpts: I teach high school English grades 7-12. We use this medium called Kidblog to post blogs about our school year. It's a really good forum to explore media and different kinds of writing. The assignment was to share a Thanksgiving Day anecdote about what your family does to celebrate the holiday, specifically a memory or what you did over the holiday. These blog post excerpts illustrate why I love my job.************************************************
Friday morning i woke up at 4:30. It's Black Friday! Me and my mom, and Mrs. M are all going to go shopping. I can't wait! I get ready and we leave at 5 am. The first place we went was the Clanton Walmart. Don't ask; I'm not sure why.
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It was Thanksgiving day and everyone had gone over to my aunt's house to eat. That part went like usual. We all sat down, ate, family argued, someone got angry and left, we cleaned up, then sat down and went through the Black Friday ads like always.
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There was a lot of food. A lot of turkey. I got sick off of turkey. I don't really like turkey anymore. The food was delicious though.
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So my thanksgiving consisted of me laughing at my mom try and fight some apartment workers and about get put in jail, so yeah my thanksgiving was great.
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Towards the end of us shopping people started running out of the mall. Once we rolled the window down we heard people saying there was a shooter. Well, once those words came out of that girls mouth ole Mom forgot how to drive. So we just sat there in the parking deck until we finally drove off.
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It was extremely boring for me, but everyone else had an excellent time. My mom and dad got to know this other family more, and everyone had someone to hang out with, but I got to hang out with nobody.
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It all started as a casual morning. I woke up, changed, ate some cereal, and wiped some poop off of my dog's butt (sometimes he has issues with that). I watched tv, and waited. Then I smelled the aroma of the pie my mom was bringing to the Thanksgiving at my Aunt's house, and I burst through the kitchen door,"PIE, I SHALL WAIT FOR YOU, MY LOVE.''
I finally got to my aunt's house, and the wonderful smell of Thanksgiving filled my nostrils. Children were laughing, food was being readied, and we were about to say the prayer. I went in the line after all the elders went, and I piled my plate with turkey, macaroni, green beans, ham, and cranberry sauce.
I finally got to my love, my one and only, PIE. I ate apple, and pumpkin, and pecan pie. I ate it so happily, but then I finished. Even though pie has a lot of calories in it, I do not regret the forty pounds I gained.
After we ate, we all crashed. I woke up before everyone else, and just played on my iPad for hours. Then all the children started to play, and they woke up all the adults. The adults immediately turned football on, and then I took another nap because I hate football.
Over all, my Thanksgiving was rather boring, but I enjoyed the pie and the thankfulness. However, I did not enjoy the football and the children turning on Paw Patrol and taking away my Hallmark time.
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I gained about ten pounds over the week we were out. I had two plates full of normal food and desserts. I was so full after I thought I was gone to explode. I will never eat that much ever again. Overall my Thanksgiving was awesome. I cant wait for Christmas to come around so I can eat more. I feel like this Christmas is gone to be good. I also can't wait till next Thanksgiving already.
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We also left one day before the wildfires, and the resort we stayed at burnt down. Basically we could've died but luckily we didn't
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The next day, my mom, sister, and I went Black Friday shopping in Alabaster. We had a great time going from store to store and luckily it wasn't as busy as I expected it to be. One thing that was funny was watching these girls fight over a pair of one dollar fuzzy socks, but if they walked around the corner they would have seen more.
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My dads brother has a wife and she is literally psycho. My other aunt accidentally popped a balloon, so the Crazy Aunt decides to run out of the house screaming because she thinks someone shot a gun in the house. Yes. She’s crazy.
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The funniest thing happened is my uncle made a sweet potato and orange dish thing. It was not good at all, he was saying how good it was going to be and how he'd made it so many years.....but it wasn't. I could tell everyone felt the same way I did, we didn't say anything to him because that just would've been mean.
