Spreading Holiday Cheer

The holiday season is upon us, as signaled by the endless seasonal music that greats your ears every time to break the threshold of a merchant. In light of this, I will be debuting a series I have been working on for a few weeks about my family, beginning on Tuesday when Lil’ Sis returns from her long sojourn from school. She is an avid reader of Press On, and has been pestering me, as little sisters always do, to write more about her, because she feels it will improve traffic. How modest she is.

Thanksgiving is easily my favorite holiday of the year. I am an avid preparer and consumer of food, and I look forward to the feast each year. Like many American families, mine has a yearly tradition of a heated football contest prior to the meal, and, fortunately, it typically ends in smiles and laughs no matter the outcome. My immediate family of four will be joined this year by my grandmother, aunt and her three sons, all of whom I cannot wait to spend the weekend with.

I can only hope all of you are so fortunate. Thanksgiving break is a great time to take a step back from class, relax a little and refocus for finals, but it is also a great time to reflect on what is important in your own life. I encourage you all to embrace your mother, thank her for all she has given you and offer to help out with the day’s festivities any way you can. We travel far from the homes our parents have made for us for school, and often, returning there can be a boring chore. But this time, remember the love that cannot be replicated in your dorm, the closeness that you will not find in your local bar, and the memories from holidays past. I wish all my readers a safe and happy Thanksgiving, and I hope that you get to spend it with friends and family.