Happy Thanksgiving.

This year was better than any, mostly because I didn't have many people over my house. Over the pass years my mother and my aunts are chained to the kitchen. They work overtime to provide food on the table of 20 at the most. It's usually the case that my house is the place to go to eat for the holidays. But this time it was a quiet, limited only to my sister, mother, father, aunt, cousin, and second cousin.

I woke up around 11. Barely peeling myself off my bed there was so much chaos in my house. The women were running around trying to finish cooking. I stay out of their way, I stay on the opposite side of the kitchen. I finally look presentable around 1 and I'm ready to eat something.

My family doesn't wait to eat around 6 or 7 we eat early around 1-3 pm and keep eating throughout the day. We have one meal that we share together at the table and then we're our seperate ways after that. We're not glued to the chair like others. My family also doesn't say grace. The sitting of the table means. This tradition is a way my parents and other family members simulate with American culture. In Ecuador there is no such holiday, my family just uses this as an excuse to eat and gossip at the table. I probably gained 10 pounds that day. My momma's cooking is the BOMB! I doubt anyone says that anymore but I do ha!

But today really raised questions in me. The whole point of this holiday is to acknowledge what one should be thankful for and BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH! I get it sheesh, I just don't understand why you need a holiday to remind yourself to do this.

It should be every single morning and night, that you should be thankful for being here. That you can breathe with ease... I personally think to much but I think about how I don't have it bad what so ever. I'm very priviledged compared to others, perhaps to rich celebrities I'm not but to someone who lives in a third world country I'm probably the rich one for them. It is all interpetation that's what I say.

I just want to say I'm thankful for everything that has happened, will happen, hasn't happened, should've, could've... for the people in and out of my life and all that good stuff because it eventually develops me.