November 27th is Thanksgiving Day in the US. Created as a national holiday in 1863 by President Lincoln. Thanksgiving Day is a communal holiday for family and friends to gather together and share a sense of gratitude for all good things in life.
The first Thanksgiving communal dinner was expected to be in 1621 and included 90 people which were a combination of Pilgrims and Indians. A leader in the colony wrote of a dinner including ducks, geese, venison, fish, berries, etc. A shortage of flour meant that there was no bread or pies served. The pumpkin was most likely served as boiled pumpkin.
There is some debate if the day of Thanksgiving was the day of the communal dinner or if a separate day of prayer and fasting was the true day of Thanksgiving. The pilgrims religious beliefs included prayer and fasting. It is possible that since there was obviously a communal dinner there might have been two Thanksgiving days. One day to thank God and another day to thank the Indians for their help.
To finish my title: I am thankful for
- God (the Father, Son and Holy Spirit)
- Dale that he is sacrificing a family dinner so that he doesn't spread his cold to my Dad who is in chemotherapy treatments now.
- My family
- My friends
- My job
- My co-workers
- My Dobie girls
Our family has a fairly traditional meal. Ham, turkey, masked potatoes with gravy, yam, squash bake and homemade lefse. Everyone brought a few things and that made it easier on everyone.
Delicious Food
Loving Family ...
It was a good afternoon surrounded by family. When the things we depend on in life fall apart on us we will always have two special things: God and Family.
I hope that you too, had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. By the way, just to keep life interesting there was a work emergency at a Canadian client and I had to work for a couple of hours. I must have known something was going to happen because I brought my computer with me!
...gathered around the table
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