November. Autumn. Pumpkin pie. Turkey. Parents.
Kids. Cousins. Friends. Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is always at my house and the
food is hot and ready on the dining room table at 2PM. But not this year.
The kids and grandkids alternate
Thanksgiving and Christmas with us and the in-laws. Pretty typical, I think,
for most families with married children. But this year is not OUR year and my
mom won’t be coming to my house either. She has Alzheimer's. My husband and I
will definitely be visiting her, but it’s too stressful and confusing to
disrupt her too much. So, this year, at home on Thanksgiving Day, my husband
and I will be alone.
We considered inviting other guests, or
inviting ourselves out to enjoy someone else’s turkey dinner, but then we decided
that maybe ‘alone’ was okay. Other people, people who don’t have lots of
family, often spend holidays alone. Is it a first choice? For them? For us? I
don’t know, but after the last several years – illness, Alzheimer's, full time
job plus writing, and so on – the idea of a lonely…or rather a peaceful
Thanksgiving began to seem appealing.
A different Thanksgiving. Still blessed,
but not with the usual noisy, bustling, fragrant chaos of tables end-to-end and
filled with loved ones.
We’ll still have turkey, of course. We’ll enjoy
a little Thanksgiving with my mother and the other ladies in the memory care
unit. And with time off from work, maybe I’ll have a little bonus de-stressing
by being able to focus solely on editing the new book.
LOL. Sounds like the day is filling back
up again – just not in the way to which I’m accustomed to for celebrating
Thanksgiving. Not good, not bad. Just different.
Did you read SWEET CHRISTMAS KISSES last
year? My contribution was BEACH CHRISTMAS which deals with how life may change
and letting go. In SWEET CHRISTMAS KISSES 2 this year, my contribution is BEACH
WALK in which two strangers each think they know what they want (one house) but
discover that getting one’s wish isn’t always the happiest ending.
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Grace Greene writes contemporary romance
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