Thanksgiving at my house

I'm glad to know that Halloween is over and am ready to begin the important holidays worth celebrating with my family. To me halloween is for little kids to go and trick or treat in cute costumes and then gorge the their candy when the get home. I used to get such bad stomach aches when I was little because of how much candy I could eat in a hour.  Now Thanksgiving is coming up and that also means "Black Friday" and all the parents rushing around stores for great deals for when Christmas comes. This year black friday starts earlier than ever and that means that my family is eating thanksgiving turkey and apple pie for lunch. I never go out with the rest of, well everybody because I like to spend time at home with my dad. Every year when the whole family goes shopping, I stay at home with my dad and we watch movies while eating triscuits. A weird snack to eat during a movie, its a tradition I suppose. I usually don't get very far in the movie because my dad falls asleep into about half an hour into any movie you put in front of him, but still its fun to bond with him just being there. Anyway, the actual thanksgiving at my house is always relatively the same. We invite my close family on my mom's side and they come over, we start talking while the food is still being prepared and cooked, crack some jokes, and get to the the eating. It feels like every year we forget to go around the table and say what we are thankful for until I mention it. I feel that its very important to say what we are all thankful for in our lives and to realize what the meaning of life itself is about. And every year for thanksgiving me and my mom make from scratch an apple pie that we eat for a desert. A remember from when I was little, I would love to bake it with her and I still do and how we nibble the thinly sliced apples from the bowl, covered in a cinnamon sugar concoction. Its so good. All in all our family time is pretty peaceful and yet still very exciting at our get togethers.