My first thanksgiving

[eequestrian]

What does Thanksgiving mean...togetherness, I think. Preparing together, eating together, talking together, walking together, eating again, talking. What is a home...a place where you know where the dishes are, and where to hang your coat, where you have a favorite place to sit in each room and there's a pattern to things. Where you can relax,

Comments

[moongem166]

I am glad that you have been blessed with a couple that is willing to mentor you at this time. That is awesome!!! I am glad you are enjoying your holidays. I have really been enjoying the postcards :) they have been ending up on the fridge or in my "German Stuff" box, a collection I have going of everything that is German.

[bulimicplankton]

that is cool. they celebrate thanksgiving in germany? i did not know that.

[eequestrian]

They don't actually celebrate Thanksgiving in Germany. There is a German holiday called "Erntedankfest" which is translated as Thanksgiving, but it is a few months earlier and is more of a church holiday. Anyway, I just decided to call last Sunday my first Thanksgiving because it felt (at least in some ways) like what I think Thanksgiving is supposed to be like, even though the Germans themselves did not consider it anything more than a nice Sunday get together. Anyway, I had an additional two Thanksgiving (one bash for my roommates and friends where I cooked for 11 people!) and another with other Americans where I didn't have to cook, but nevertheless got to eat real pumpkin pie, cornbread and proper turkey. Yay for Thanksgiving!