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So there you are at Grandma's on Thanksgiving Day, helping Aunt Jane prepare the meal. After all, you've done it for the past 15 years. Maybe it's going to Mama's for the 20th Thanksgiving Celebration of your 25 year old life. It's like being wrapped with a warm blanket of memories and good food. Tradition, it's just what we do.
For some of us, traditions are changing. It may be the first year you've had to celebrate Thanksgiving without a loved one, the first year after divorce (and it's his turn to have the kids), or it may simply be someone in your celebation circle has to work during the holidays. Enjoy it anyway.
Traditions shouldn't tightly wrap our holidays to the point of suffocation. If we spend all our time worrying about how a holiday is so unlike all the others, we may just lose sight of memories in the making.
This year, I celebrate how different Thanksgiving is going to be for me. All of my family will be vacationing without me and mine. My husband has to work. It will be just the kids and I, for the first time ever. I'm going to cook like I'm feeding an army and enjoy it like it's a Thanksgiving Luncheon at the White House. Different? Yes, but different is what we remember. Out of all the years of celebrating holidays, I remember the celebrations that were different the most. Not the same 'ole same o every single year. It gets stagnate and stale.
This holiday season, celebrate the difference. In the meantime, you might just make a memory you'll cherish forever.