Day Of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving two-thousand and fifteen started out normal, my sister and I arrived around one to start to help my grandparents prepare for the mighty feast we were going to have. My grandmother works her ass off every day for a week straight in order to make sure this day is spectacular. After a while of being at her house around four thirty my brother and father showed up making the house filled with laughter and joy. The laughter bounced from room to room, off wall to wall and created the sweetest sound of music I have heard. But the only thing missing was my mother, she works till six so we could not eat till then. The minute my mother walked in the door I could feel the happiness inside my grandmother because she knew her family had now
My family, with our weird traditions, always says two different prayers, one for the Lutherans and the other for the Catholics. My grandmother being Lutheran led that one and my mother being Catholic led the other. After both prayers were said the grub fest could commence. During Thanksgiving dinner no one usually talks until we all have food on our plates, but this year was different. My grandmother in the middle of everyone passing plates and scooping big helpings of potatoes on to our dishes looked over at me and said, " Someday I'll be gone and it will be your own family you will be cooking for, remember to never take advantage of the time you have on
My mother wanted to give me the birthday of my dreams and that is exactly what she did. She told me that for this birthday I was not going to be able to have a huge party like I had wanted, so I threw a fit. I started to yell and scream and cry until my mom calmed me down. She told me that birthdays do not have to be extravagant in order for it to be a birthday, but as long as you have your family surrounded by you be fine. When my party came I walked into my back yard and saw that all of my family was there and everything I had wanted was too, I was so overjoyed my mom couldn’t contain me. I ran up to her and gave her the biggest hug ever, she told " Happy birthday sweetie! I love you." Thanksgiving dinner had finally been over and we all started to clean up. This is where my grandmother usually does all the work but this year we all told her you do way too much for us, it’s your turn to relax. We cleaned up all of the dishes and packed away all of the leftovers. My mom and I were in charge of doing the dishes and as we were doing them she looked at me and said, "Eri, don't take advantage of the time you have left here on