My Thanksgiving Memories Of Christine Hughes

Christine Hughes is a 63-year-old, single mother, and a Licensed Nursing Assistant. Christine is my mother’s daughter which makes her my grandmother. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I saw friends and family, but I made it my mission to sit down and talk to my grandmother. Being a college student, I am only fortunate enough to see her over my breaks and I make sure I never miss out on an opportunity to visit her. During our talk, we discussed her hobbies as a child, her favorite thanksgiving memory, and a stressful moment within her life. She also gave me words of wisdom and guidance to get through stressful points currently within my life and stressful moments that will hit me within the future.

Growing up in the 50’s in the country of Keysville,

My grandmother’s favorite Thanksgiving memories included being around all her family members. Over the past few years, death, divorce, and feuds, family, Thanksgiving haven 't felt the same. One of her most memorable Thanksgiving moments was when 7 and watched her mother and father create a perfect Thanksgiving meal using the resources they had at home, due to living on a farm. She admired how everything her mother made was made from scratch. Within her town, there weren’t grocery stores or markets for miles. With no baby sister for all 13 children to take care of her children, or a car big enough to fit all of them, she had to use the resources around her. She observed her mother 's strength, dedicated, determination and independence when making the Thanksgiving meal. From that day she appreciated her mother for preparing a meal with so much love and

When she said thus I was confused and wondered what did fighting and praying have to do with getting through things that stressed, distant, and unhappy. My grandmother explained that no matter what I may do I must fight through my stressors and take them head on at a pace that’s right for me. She explained that as long as I continue to dwell on my stress and unhappiness, that all I’ll ever continue to do. When you fight through the stress, you empower yourself to do what you need to do, and when you succeed and complete that task you make yourself happy in knowing that you actually did it. She also stated that no matter if you 're religious or not, when you pray, meditate, or vent to a higher being, tell or release your struggles you allow god or whoever to take away your