November 25, 2010

  • In just a few minutes...

    the begining of Thanksgiving will start. And I was unmotivated till tonight.  I don't like cooking for someone that I don't much like. I don't like cooking when the kids are not feeling well and want to hang onto me and just laze about.

    Then I had a conversation about how so many people have just skipped from Halloween right to Christmas decorating and shopping. There is also a few outspoken celebs that are saying it is a horrid thing to celebrate because of what white people did the the natives. And I got motivated.

    I want to celebrate thanksgiving not for the food, the people or for celebrating tormenting the natives. I am celebrating because that is where it started. I was taught from a family tradition that the Natives helped so many people in the begining. They showed so many "white" people how to survive in a harsh land that they knew nothing about. We celebrated that we had freedoms and wanted others to have the same freedoms. I celebrated that we as people have so many many things because of all of the good.

    And yes I know what the white men ended up doing to the Natives. I know how horrible it was and disgustion and shouldn't have ever happened. BUT IT DID. I am sorry for that but Thanksgiving is a day to celebrate the good. The things we are thankful for. AND I am thankful that so much good has come out of such situations.

    So when the kids get up I will pop the turkey onto the BBQ. I will put what needs to go into the oven there and I will pull my kids about me and tell them the stories that I grew up with. I will tell them about the sad parts as well but I will tell them that we have all that we have because of the good and the bad and I for one am thankful for being here. On this earth. Living with my 4 beautiful boys and such friens as I have.