Thanksgiving? We absolutely celebrate this delicious holiday in the DiGiacomo household.
For starters, this is my favorite holiday because my birthday falls this year on Wednesday, the 27th, the day before Thanksgiving. My birthday always moves, and just a couple years ago it fell on Thanksgiving. But, it’s one of our family’s favorite holidays because this is when we come together and thank the lord for all that we have. Don’t get me wrong we thank and pray everyday, but we make sure we say a special prayer on Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving in our family used to be a switch off between my mom’s brothers houses and our house. But as my sister Isabella and I got older, we decided on just having Thanksgiving with the four of us; my mom, dad, sister and I and, of course, our two dogs, Mikey and Rocky.
This is a very special time in my household, especially since it’s when I come home from college and no one is working or running errands. It’s just a day where we can just be with each other and talk without a worriment in the world. This day truly means a lot.
I must say, my favorite part is definitely, of course, being with my family but a close second is the food. In an Italian household there is always a lot of food no matter what meal we decide on eating. But Papa Goc (my dad) makes a mean Thanksgiving meal. All from the traditional turkey, to the stuffing my favorite part of the dinner to the sweet potatoes and one cannot forget the homemade apple pie. And just when you thought that’s enough we always add in the delectable vanilla ice cream, just to add a touch of sweetness to the meal.
My stomach is already filled with just the site of the amount of food my dad makes. This is the only holiday my dad won’t make breakfast or lunch, and for good reason. I can barely make it to dinner during Christmas, because I already had a large breakfast and of course the appetizers before hand.
In our family Thanksgiving and Christmas go hand in hand. Normally before we sit down and mangiare, which means to eat in Italian, we put up our Christmas tree, and watch Christmas movies to start getting ourselves in the mood for the holiday season.
I never complain about putting the Christmas tree up early, if it could happen I would celebrate Christmas all year round but that’s just not in the cards. Another tradition that I’ve shared with my mom and recently my sister is that we go out with one of my dear friends from high school, her mom and other sister the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and we see a Christmas movie preferably a Tyler Perry movie. Then we go out to dinner to wherever were feeling and just get ready for the holiday seasons to begin.
How about black Friday you ask? Well just hold on to your horses of course this is a day to shop for everyone and you sometimes find the best deals. But for my mom and I it’s been a tradition to go to Peddler’s Village, a quaint little town shopping area where we spend the day together and convers ate about what my sister Isabella and my dad will be getting for Christmas.
Let me not jump ahead, but Thanksgiving is first and I’m in amazement on how quickly the time flew by. But I am very excited to spend such an amazing holiday with none other than mi famiglia.
