A ROAST for Thanksgiving?? That's just wrong!!
It's funny how traditions are started. Sometimes, like many major inventions and discoveries, they're by accident. Two years ago, two months before Thanksgiving, my son survived a major accident. As he was healing, I tried hard to provide things I knew he liked to encourage him to eat and regain strength. That Thanksgiving, his request was for a standing roast instead of Turkey. So for the last two Thanksgivings that's been our traditional meal. A few days ago, he asked “Mom, you know what you're cooking for Thanksgiving, right?”. I said “Yes buddy, roast”. We have so much to be thankful for this holiday season. I still have my son with me, of course I'm going to cook him roast instead of turkey.
There are many traditions associated with Thanksgiving. Most of them have developed over the years. Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated annually until Abraham Lincoln set a national holiday to honor it in 1863. He designated the last Thursday of the month and even that has been changed. Although we now celebrate it on the 3rd Thursday in November, the first Thanksgiving feast was probably held in October. Many think that Lincoln actually set it to honor the date that the Mayflower (which one of my ancestors fell over the side of, but that's another story) landed, not the date of the actual first Thanksgiving.
Moral of the story. Thanksgiving isn't a day, it's not a particular meal, it's not a set tradition. Although we should treat every day with thanksgiving, it's a special day to stop, remember the blessings we have, make new memories with the ones we love and thank God for all we have.
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