Reflection Paper About Thanksgiving

As Thanksgiving is approaching, I reflect back to when I was younger and the traditions we use to have. I spent many years at Grandma and Grandpa Fischer’s house with my entire family for Thanksgiving. Memories of food, naps, the Macy’s Day Parade, and Christmas decorations bounce into my head making me wish I was little again. Some traditions have changed, but for the most part they have remained the same. I can remember traveling to my grandparents’ house for Thanksgiving, I would become so excited the week leading up to the holiday because I was finally able to see my aunts and grandparents all at the same time. We stayed the entire Thanksgiving break at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. On Thanksgiving morning, we would wake up early to watch the Macy’s Day Parade all of us, girls and kids, still in our pajamas cuddle on the floor in front of the tv. Eventually, my mom, Grandma, Aunt Lindsey, and Aunt Elexa would get up to start

We no longer wake up super early to watch the parade, nor do we cuddle on the floor together to watch it. The parade is on the tv and a couple people can be found watching it, but we have grown apart from watching it together. The women still cook in the kitchen and the men outside, but as we have aged my sister and I have been expected to help in the kitchen and my brother outside; my nosey cousins still run around to be in everyone’s business though. The food remains delicious and everyone still over eats, and we all enjoy our naps. However; when we wake up we do not always put the decorations up, or do we ever put them up over Thanksgiving break. If we happen to put them up, the leaders and who gets to decorate which places have changed. Hot tub time remains the same, but the people in the hot tub has changed. So, as Thanksgiving approaches, I wish we could go back to how the memories of long ago