My Thanksgiving memory is not a memory from one particular year, but it's a memory I have from Thanksgiving every year. Every year I wake up fairly early to help my mom clean the house up before my family and friends arrive to celebrate Thanksgiving. When I walk down the stairs I smell the food that my Mom is cooking, reminding me what day it is. Every year my Mom makes the same food: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, and a few other dishes which are irrelevant because I do not like them. As we sit down at the dinner table and say what we are thankful for everyone waits in anticipation to begin eating the feast my Mom has prepared. After taking his first bite, my cousin Jonathan, always says to my Mom, "Aunt Jill you have out done yourself." This is a somewhat famous line in my family, that people use every time my Mom has done something good.
Another memory that I have from every Thanksgiving is watching football with my Dad. Before my family comes over my Dad and I sit on the couch and watch the 12:30 game together, or at least part of it. This is something my Dad and I do every Sunday, but it seems a bit more special when we get to do it on Thanksgiving. My mom cooks pigs and a blanket, and puts out chips for us to watch the games. It is pretty much 12 straight hours of football on a day filled with food, I'm not sure what else an American man would want in a day. I realize that Thanksgiving is not a day all about football and food, rather about giving thanks for what you have. But, I believe that people should not be thankful just for one day, people should be thankful everyday for what they have.
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