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November 24, 2010
Greetings...
Even though Christmas music has already started playing, TV ads have
already started selling, and people have already started to get a
little stressed, the "official" start to the holiday season is this
Friday, the day after Thanksgiving...
This year will be different around here. For the first time since
I cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner at 19 and every year since,
I will be cooking for only three...
With the exception of the youngest, who will be home from college for
a few days, all the "kids" will not be able to join us this year and
I won't lie, it's a little, (OK, A LOT) harder on me than I ever thought
it would be. You spend most of their teen years counting the days until
they move out and when the reality of it hits you, it gives you a twang
of pain...Go figure
Why bother cooking for three, you may ask? Ordinarily, I probably wouldn't,
but this year is a little different...
Flyboy has been gone for four days, will be home one day, (Wednesday),
and has to be gone on Thanksgiving and three more days. Wednesday is
also his birthday and I thought I would kill two, er, pardon the expression,
birds with one roasting pan...
Being on the road on his birthday and a holiday is hard enough and is one
of the prices he has to pay because of his profession, so I thought I
would make sure he had a nice birthday and Thanksgiving dinner on the
same day...
Men love home cooking and would rather eat an egg at home rather than a
steak out, especially when they have to bnd e on the road like he is. Women,
on the other hand, would rather eat a piece of toast out, rather than a
steak in!!!
Traveling is also a big part of Thanksgiving and because of the recent
hoopla surrounding the TSA, body scanners and invasive molestation, the
airports are probably the last place I'd want to be right now...
This story just keeps getting bigger and although 80% of people polled
say they are in favor of the body scanners and privacy comes second
over security, less than half are in favor of the pat down tactics
that seem to be getting more and more invasive and shameful...
No one questions the need for security, it's the scatterbrained policies
that seem to change on a weekly or daily basis. Someone "higher up"
needs to talk to the Israeli's and learn how to use Intelligence to
survey the flying public. I realize "Intelligence" and Government
don't always go hand in hand, but you get my drift...
There's a panic going on since 9-11 that is breaking us, mind and soul
with the only ones enjoying the show being the terrorists. We have lost
principles of common sense and in the case of the new security measures,
common decency...
John F. Kennedy once said, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself"
Benjamin Franklin could have been talking directly to us when he said,
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety".
My husband and son are pilots, I lived with fear every time they flew after
9-11. The fear subsided, the concern never does. I want them safe, I want
all of us safe, but I don't want to live in a world where freedom is
replaced by a government that can inflict their will at anytime because
they "know" what is best for us and the country. History will tell you
when that has happened in the past, grave consequences were the result...
Isn't freedom why our servicemen and servicewomen have fought, or were
they misled along the way?
I'd like to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving and to our troops
serving near and far, God Bless and we are thankful for all of you!
Happy Birthday Flyboy, you continue to be the reason I am always thankful
on Thanksgiving and every other day of the year! Smooooooch!
:-)