Best Thanksgiving Memories?

The fights!!!

Didn't take much for us to animal instinct impress the girls!

For Mom and Pop, Thanksgiving was an after hours bedtime prayer!

Good prayer. We always lived to fight another Thanksgiving!

The adults approved, I think, secretly.

You?

Andy

On Nov 20, 11:46*am, Andy > wrote:
> Best Thanksgiving Memories?
>
> The fights!!!
>
> Didn't take much for us to animal instinct impress the girls!
>
> For Mom and Pop, Thanksgiving was an after hours bedtime prayer!
>
> Good prayer. We always lived to fight another Thanksgiving!
>
> The adults approved, I think, secretly.
>
> You?
>
> Andy

After waging war with an army of dishes and pots and pans, my mother,
aunt and I would always take a walk to the cemetery to their parents'
grave. I think they needed to get away from the hustle and bustle and
heat of the kitchen and pantry.

Kalmia > wrote in news:be6c90d2-27be-4d11-9144-
:

> On Nov 20, 11:46*am, Andy > wrote:
>> Best Thanksgiving Memories?
>>
>> The fights!!!
>>
>> Didn't take much for us to animal instinct impress the girls!
>>
>> For Mom and Pop, Thanksgiving was an after hours bedtime prayer!
>>
>> Good prayer. We always lived to fight another Thanksgiving!
>>
>> The adults approved, I think, secretly.
>>
>> You?
>>
>> Andy
>
> After waging war with an army of dishes and pots and pans, my mother,
> aunt and I would always take a walk to the cemetery to their parents'
> grave. I think they needed to get away from the hustle and bustle and
> heat of the kitchen and pantry.


Kalmia,

Right! The thought of satisfying three generations with food and the
plates that amounts to!

Heck, I'd dig a plot and bury myself beforehand!

The new holiday "Thanksgoing".

Best,

Andy

Thanksgiving is a time of family getting together. We don't have big
fights with each other. If we are going to fight it will be done another
day - this is for us to enjoy each other. But my favorite memories of
when I was a girl was when my cousin, we called him Uncle Dan - as he
had no siblings and would not have anyone else to call him that - would
bring his guitar. He would get us to singing and having fun. Then he
would pull out his hankie and form it into a mouse and make you believe
it was actually alive. I do miss him. He died young of cancer leaving
two young boys. I could not listen to country music for many years after
that, until I heard Randy Travis sing. Randy sang like my Uncle Dan.


--
Dymphna
Message origin: www.TRAVEL.com

Lynn from Fargo > wrote in
:

> Thanksgiving Day memories: seeing if we could get the turkey carved
> and the food on the table before daddy got too sloshed. Nine out of
> ten years I ended up in tears.
>
> Lynn in Fargo
> Remind me later to post my BEST memory about Christmas - it was at
> least funny!


Lynn in Fargo,

Pop Pop was the most evil Thanksgiving host on earth!!!

We had to sit down and he'd tell anecdotes as he TURTLE slow carved the
bird at the dinner table.

Even my parents behaved! I figured, he was a judge and could have us all
thrown in jail if he wanted to.

We always survived and loved the occasion all the more for having him and
his theatrics, in all honesty. That's family and ceremony for ya!!!

No doubt your BEST memory about Christmas is unforgettable. Shame you'll
have to wait. I can picture your eagerness to tell. You'll just have to
wait until after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade I suppose?

And so we too shall wait.

Best,

Andy

On Nov 20, 1:13*pm, Andy > wrote:
> Kalmia > wrote in news:be6c90d2-27be-4d11-9144-
> :
>
>
>
> > On Nov 20, 11:46*am, Andy > wrote:
> >> Best Thanksgiving Memories?
>
> >> The fights!!!
>
> >> Didn't take much for us to animal instinct impress the girls!
>
> >> For Mom and Pop, Thanksgiving was an after hours bedtime prayer!
>
> >> Good prayer. We always lived to fight another Thanksgiving!
>
> >> The adults approved, I think, secretly.
>
> >> You?
>
> >> Andy
>
> > After waging war with an army *of dishes and pots and pans, my mother,
> > aunt and I would always take a walk to the cemetery to their parents'
> > grave. *I think they needed to get away from the hustle and bustle and
> > heat of the kitchen and pantry.
>
> Kalmia,
>
> Right! The thought of satisfying three generations with food and the
> plates that amounts to!
>
> Heck, I'd dig a plot and bury myself beforehand!
>
> The new holiday "Thanksgoing".
>
> Best,
>
> Andy
We did NOT have a dish washer. And my mother didn't believe in
skimping on dishes. Everyone had a plate for rolls, there was always
a shrimp cocktail footed thing, multitudinous serving bowls, I think
every dish we owned came into play. I can't remember it all. The
silver got polished on the Tuesday before, the dishes laid out on
Wed. She made the pies on Wed. The bird got its start at 2 am in the
big Nesco type thing.

"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> Best Thanksgiving Memories?

Mine are the funny memories when my son was alive. He was always such a
clown. When he was a young teenager and we ate holiday family dinners at my
parents house, he would eat so much that he'd get bad gas. That boy could
clear a room faster than anyone else. Like most boys that age, he thought
farts were funny. And the reaction he got from people around him was even
funnier.

Ah, stinky memories.

"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> Best Thanksgiving Memories?
>
> The fights!!!
>
> Didn't take much for us to animal instinct impress the girls!
>
> For Mom and Pop, Thanksgiving was an after hours bedtime prayer!
>
> Good prayer. We always lived to fight another Thanksgiving!
>
> The adults approved, I think, secretly.
>
> You?
>
> Andy

The time my 18 Year old daughter told my 50+ year old engineer BIL "he was
stupid and needed to take a entry level college class in Economics 101 to
understand the ramifications of paying all workers $12.50 per hour."

In the process she called him both naive and stupid -

I remember it because SHE WAS Right!

After all was said and done I needed to admonish her based upon losing her
cool and disrespecting her elders (even though she was right. It was not
what she said but how she said it.

LOL


--
Dimitri

Mirepoix

http://kitchenguide.wordpress.com.

"Dimitri" > wrote
>
> The time my 18 Year old daughter told my 50+ year old engineer BIL "he was
> stupid and needed to take a entry level college class in Economics 101 to
> understand the ramifications of paying all workers $12.50 per hour."
>
> In the process she called him both naive and stupid -
>
> I remember it because SHE WAS Right!
>
> After all was said and done I needed to admonish her based upon losing her
> cool and disrespecting her elders (even though she was right. It was not
> what she said but how she said it.
>
GREAT story.

Andy wrote:
>
> Best Thanksgiving Memories?
>
> The fights!!!
>
> Didn't take much for us to animal instinct impress the girls!
>
> For Mom and Pop, Thanksgiving was an after hours bedtime prayer!
>
> Good prayer. We always lived to fight another Thanksgiving!
>
> The adults approved, I think, secretly.
>
> You?
>
> Andy

Nothing particular as far as family goes cos we didn't always celebrate
Thanksgiving; it isn't a Dutch holiday.

However had a couple of nice meals at university (in the US). Someone
from the church I attended at the time always fixed meals for students
who couldn't get home. The church paid for the supplies but not their
time.

They had two larrge cookers/ovens in the kitchen. One contained a turkey
that took up most of the oven and the other had an equally large ham.
Gallons of side dishes and desserts. Two large dining room tables and
several other smaller tables lined up from dining room through to living
room. We all played silly games after the meal. Everyone (30+ hungry
students) had more than enough to eat and we all got a large foil
container of leftovers to take back with us

Don't remember their name but do remember their hospitality to a bunch
of relative strangers.