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December 02, 2006
Giving Thanks
This is a way overdue post on Thanksgiving that I started writing last week sometime...
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but the real world has rendered the virtual one quite unimportant as of late. We had a wonderful holiday, with visiting family, old friends, new friends, and a big ol' turkey roasted quite capably by Adam. We started a tradition a few years back of hosting dinner on Thanksgiving, and every year I think it means more to me. It has been a time for people in completely different spheres of our lives to meet one another, and this year was more special because we were hosting in our first house. We were "home" much more so than in years past.
I think that I look forward to Thanksgiving just as much, if not moreso than Christmas. Thanksgiving lets me feel close to the people I care about and makes me, quite literally, very thankful for all I have. And it lacks the crass commercialism of Christmas. Now we get to negotiate that territory with a child. How to let the grandparents have their fun and still teach Lily the humble restraint we'd like her to have in the face of so much consumerism? I guess we'll find out. We've already threatened to take every gift containing batteries to Goodwill once the holiday is over. I realize that she's going to be exposed to all this stuff eventually, which in my mind is even more argument for keeping her from it now. We've started attending a parent-child Waldorf preschool class once a week, and Lily has a blast playing with simple, wooden toys and dolls. She is so much more engaged than when I watch her with a battery-operated toy, mindlessly pushing a button over and over.
Well, that isn't where I intended this post to go, but here it is. To sum up, I'd like to wish all our friends, family, and loved ones a wonderful holiday season. Before I turn into a complete Grinch.