Remembrance of a past Thanksgiving.

Many moons ago, due to financial difficulties, I was forced to move back in with my mother and grandmother. Thanksgiving was just the three of us. One year, on the Sunday before, my mother announced that she wasn't going to do Thanksgiving that year because nobody helped her or appreciated it and I said "Then don't do it." On Monday, I came home from work and she said "I'm not doing it" and I said "Then don't do it." On Tuesday, I came home from work and she said "I'm not doing it" and I said "Then don't do it." On Wednesday, I came home from work and she said "I'm not doing it" and I said "Oh please do it! Please do it!"

On Thanksgiving morning she went out and got a frozen turkey breast and it was my job to defrost it. I put it a tub of cold water and changed the water every 20 minutes. All day long, I helped her: I peeled, cut and mashed the potatoes; set the table; opened the can of Grands biscuits and put them in the oven; and everything else she asked me to do. I told her "Thank you for doing this" all day long.

It was finally time to sit down at the table and the first words out of my grandmother's mouth were "Jennie, don't you have anything else besides turkey?" like we had it all the time and she was sick of it! My mother and I just busted out laughing.

That is a fond memory which I'll never forget.