Assignment 14- Leighanne Guettler-James

Thanksgiving has always been a holiday that I resent greatly because thanksgiving for my family is different than thanksgiving in most of my friends families. While most of them have family from all over the country and three different generations flying in to see them, my extended family is not so close. On my moms side there is none and on my dads side, there is no effort to communicate most of the time. I have never had grandparents. While I recognize how incredibly lucky I am that I have the immediate family that I do, it's hard not to feel a pang of sadness when everyone returns to school with stories about how they got to see their Grandmas and cousins. For the Guettler-James family, thanksgiving looks more like going over to my brothers-baby-mama's house to eat dinner with her family, an incredibly resentful affair seeing as her mother still blames my brother for impregnating her daughter at the age of 20. Anyway, thanksgiving is an awkward time when people with nothing in common and a large amount of hate for each other all get together to eat food that is cold because the baby was crying, impeding her mother from finishing the damn mashed potatoes.