Writing your history- Then & NOW- Thanksgiving 2020

This is the last in the Then & Now series of journal prompts about your life now and as a child. These prompts are about your life today.

Here are a few questions to get you thinking about you and your experiences. This is your history and writings of your individual experiences.

How did you celebrate Thanksgiving this year?

Did you meet at your home, a relative or friends? Was that different from your regular traditions?

How did you feel in the lead up to the holiday? Did you take extra precautions?

Did you eat a your traditional dinner? Did you have trouble acquiring any needed items?

Did you do any virtual calls with family or friends?

My family has eaten with our nuclear family for a number of years. We had our regular Thanksgiving dinner, although, I would have preferred to have a turkey breast or smaller turkey, but I could not locate one. Many years we have gotten together to play touch football with friends, go bowling or run a 5K, all of which did not happen this year. We had hoped that a nephew who is stationed nearby could come for the weekend, however, all passes were revoked just prior to Thanksgiving, so we “ate” dinner together over an app and then streamed the same holiday movie while on our call.

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Writing your history- THEN & Now- Thanksgiving

Through the middle of December, there will be a series of journal prompts regarding your life now and as a child. These prompts are about your life today.

Here are a few questions to get you thinking about you and your experiences. This is your history and writings of your individual experiences.

How did you celebrate Thanksgiving as a child?

Did you meet at your home, a relative or friends, or dine out?

How was the mood during the time together?

Who prepared the food?

Did you eat a traditional turkey dinner?

What was your favorite dish? Was there a dish that was traditional for your family?

Did you have other traditions around the holiday weekend?

It seems as though most years my family hosted Thanksgiving dinner. This is at my parent’s home when we lived in Northern California. This was one of the few years that there were 4 generations of our family gathered, with people from both sides of the family. When we moved to Oregon, some family followed us there and we usually hosted them for dinner, as well as, some good friends of our family. You could correctly infer from the photograph that there was a “kids’ table”, which we had for most years. After dinner, the kids would often play board games and then once driving was a possibility, the kids would head off to a movie.