Ghana, Day 107 - Thanksgiving

Hi Ruth!

I'm still in Ghana, and it's not Thanksgiving here - Thanksgiving is a holiday only for the US.  Well, and in Canada they celebrate a holiday a lot like it, but in October.

It's hard for me to believe that this is the fourth Thanksgiving you're having already!

And that I've missed two of them.

I've always liked Thanksgiving - I've always liked food!  But I don't remember it being that big a deal back when I was younger (not as little as you, but younger).  I remember in college it was always a time that all my friends from high school would be in town - but since Grammy and Grampy had moved since I'd started school, that wasn't really very many people!  And it got harder for everyone to travel up to Great-Mem and Great-Pep's house, and then after I moved to Washington, DC we all started coming to Aunt Connie's and Sharon's, which was great!  I feel like I got to know Aunt Connie and Sharon a lot more than I had when I was littler.  But Great-Mem didn't always come, or Aunt Cori.

So, I guess Thanksgiving was always something I liked, but it didn't feel like as big a deal as something like Christmas.  But having missed it with you twice (once when you were still much smaller, when I was in Congo), I don't think I want to miss it with you and Mommy again.  Or with Grammy and Grampy and Aunt Connie and Sharon.

Plus, I keep missing the pie you and Mommy make!