Assignment 14: Charlotte Kessinger

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it is much more casual than Christmas. Christmas is hyped up and made a huge deal and I think in that it loses some of its fun and meaningfulness. Thanksgiving isn't about buying gifts or being stressed out and I like that. For thanksgiving, first my mom usually forces my whole family out of bed to engage in some sort of physical activity. We then get ready to go to Midway to visit my aunt and my moms side of the family for a lunch. They live on a farm so all the cousins usually play around outside in the creek or the woods. We eat off paper plates at anywhere we want. It is super casual. After we eat a huge lunch with good food, we all usually sit down and talk and do absolutely nothing. Then my family leaves to go to my aunts house on my dads side back in Lexington. Here we eat a late dinner with the whole family. This meal is more "fancy" we eat off of real plates all around the same table. My dad's side is really fun to be around. My favorite memory of thanksgiving is from when I was around 6 or 7 and my parents took us out to my uncles farm and we got to ride horses that morning. It was super fun at the time because I really liked horses and my parents surprised us.