QotD: Thanksgiving Traditions
What are your favorite Thanksgiving traditions? Anything you're not so fond of?
Favorite:
Baking pies for the annual Arizona Geographical Orphan Thanksgiving Dinner and DrunkFest and spending the day with my wonderful and crazy friends. Some are wonderful and crazy, some are just crazy.
Not Favorite:
Being home in Michigan and driving to Grand Rapids to spend Thanksgiving with the religious conservative relatives. Not nearly as fun and crazy *cough* as my Arizona Thanksgiving, but we always end up with good stories. Mostly the H's try to behave and not say anything that will set off Cousin Stacy.
Favorite Thanksgiving story: One of my Wisconsin cousins married a gal who was then an atheist (now she goes to the same liberal denomination as I do). Cousin Stacy (who twice went to Israel to try and convert Jews into Baptists), drew Atheist Cousin-in-Law's name for the cousin gift exchange.
CS: "I don't know ACiL. I don't even know what to get her."
My SIL (who doesn't follow the 'don't say anything to upset CS' rule): "Just don't get her anything Jesus!"
At that moment, both sides of the family got up and stampeded downstairs to watch the Lions game. Except for Brother Steve, who kept throwing on a little more wood to the fire to keep those two going at each other for his own entertainment purposes.
Comments
Brother Steve sounds like fun.
Maybe he meant it like this "Just don't ger her anything, Jesus" using Jesus as a pronoun.
No - it was my sister in law who doesn't mince words. She said it to mean "Don't get her anything Jesus-related".
Brother Steve was just hanging around to watch those two go at it. The last Christmas when Cousin Stacy was there, she and SIL were having a heated discussion about Barney the Dinosaur was an introduction (or not) to the idea gay people were okay. SIL took the "he is not, but so what if he is?" defense and CS had the very offensive position that he is and it's bad if people are gay.
Steve likes to thrown in little bombs to get them both riled up. They may never catch on. The rest of us laugh and say, "Steve! Stop it!"
Give our regards to Steve at Xmas! And our contempt to CS.
CS has been wonderfully absent at the holidays since she moved to Florida.
It's funny, we have the most divergent views and she thinks my life is over because I'm divorced (see that ol' misogynist Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, 7:1-40. All the verses are a kick) and we've had some knock-down drag-out fights over Creationism v. Science/Common Sense over the years - but I get along with her the easiest of all my cousins from that family.