Thanksgiving Rituals: a List

a joyless day of thanks to you and yours

- Cook the cranberries till they pop, and then not eat them because I actually sort of hate cranberries

- Recall Thanksgivings of the past in foreign lands

- Recite the things we are thankful for

- Make the table look gorgeous (lordy do I love to set a table) with golden chargers and all kinds of decorative gear

- Watch the two episodes of The West Wing featuring Thanksgiving themes (The Butterball Hotline episode and the pardoning of Trey the turkey episode where CJ leads the children in song. Classics.)

- Talk about dad
- Wear mom’s handmade pilgrim hats 


- putting up the tree after dinner to the first round of Christmas carols 

- and take humorless pilgrim photos

- Create some new kind of tradition because there are no Thanksgiving traditions, really
- Go for a walk, no matter the weather 


- embracing the fact that Thanksgiving is a holiday for which, I truly have no set rituals

our first tree together!