tanka challenge, Thanksgiving
Nov. 21st, 2008 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwen21 Nov
Nephew born this morn,
Day before our family
gathers to give thanks.
How much more to give thanks for,
their happiness and good health.
***
The Massachusetts Gray family usually gathers on the Saturday before or after Thanksgiving -- usually before, I think. Sometimes Grays make it from out-of-state, but not this year. The new baby, mom and dad are actually planning on being at the gathering. There is much preparation of food of course -- we have our things to make this evening. We meet around 11:30-12:00, a fairly relaxed affair.
This year we need extra choir practices before Bergental/BBM Yule -- Palestrina's Sitivit Anima Mea is being challenging -- so practices on tomorrow and next Saturday, as well as the Sundays.
Thanksgiving Day itself, which will be celebrated in the U.S. this coming Thursday, we'll be happily at home. I'm not fond of travelling on holidays; I did enough of that when I was younger. Not that those weren't enjoyable times, but I like travel less and less as time goes by, and the longer the distance I have to go, the more time I want to spend there before coming home again. If we were to go to the UK for instance, I'd want to be there for a few weeks, so we didn't drive ourselves into the ground trying to see everything.
Speaking of travel, I should talk to my MIL about her Christmas list, as I have no intention of shopping the day after Thanksgiving, nor too close to Christmas itself.
Ah, but Thursday, when L has the day off and we have no social obligations, we can have a nice lazy day if we wish, or get lots of things done if we wish, but no obligation to do either. I'm definitely looking forward to that!
Nephew born this morn,
Day before our family
gathers to give thanks.
How much more to give thanks for,
their happiness and good health.
***
The Massachusetts Gray family usually gathers on the Saturday before or after Thanksgiving -- usually before, I think. Sometimes Grays make it from out-of-state, but not this year. The new baby, mom and dad are actually planning on being at the gathering. There is much preparation of food of course -- we have our things to make this evening. We meet around 11:30-12:00, a fairly relaxed affair.
This year we need extra choir practices before Bergental/BBM Yule -- Palestrina's Sitivit Anima Mea is being challenging -- so practices on tomorrow and next Saturday, as well as the Sundays.
Thanksgiving Day itself, which will be celebrated in the U.S. this coming Thursday, we'll be happily at home. I'm not fond of travelling on holidays; I did enough of that when I was younger. Not that those weren't enjoyable times, but I like travel less and less as time goes by, and the longer the distance I have to go, the more time I want to spend there before coming home again. If we were to go to the UK for instance, I'd want to be there for a few weeks, so we didn't drive ourselves into the ground trying to see everything.
Speaking of travel, I should talk to my MIL about her Christmas list, as I have no intention of shopping the day after Thanksgiving, nor too close to Christmas itself.
Ah, but Thursday, when L has the day off and we have no social obligations, we can have a nice lazy day if we wish, or get lots of things done if we wish, but no obligation to do either. I'm definitely looking forward to that!
