November 21st, 2007 at 3:16 pm
There are reasons why our celebration of Thanksgiving is better than Christmas.
Preparation time for Thanksgiving is usually two days, one for groceries and one for celebration, unless you’re my mother-in-law, with which you started preparing two days ago. Prep time for Christmas, if you are my neighbor down the street, started last week.
Nobody loses or masks the meaning of Thanksgiving, or celebrates it with other holidays in order to look cool and politically correct. As far as I know, it’s still mentioned in public schools. It would be better if William Bradford’s experiments in communism vs. capitalism were more well known, but that’s my only complaint.
After participating in the main custom, one is expected to simply sleep, watch parades and football, or if you have a large family, play football.
There’s no carrot-and-stick with gift-giving, though we’ve never taken back any gifts because the kids were bad. Yet. 
Of course I’m being facetious, but I do look forward to hanging out with the in-laws and just chilling. One more thing to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving. Drive/fly safely.
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November 27th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I agree. Christmas is just too big.
In public schools, though, while they’ll mention that the Pilgrims gave thanks, they don’t always mention the one to whom the Pilgrims offered their thanks. So it sort of turns into the Pilgrims just having a good inner attitude.