Holidays

          When the holidays come around people get together with their families to celebrate and enjoy the holidays together. This past week Thanksgiving came around. Thanksgiving is a holiday where people are suppose to look back on what they are thankful for and learn to appreciate what they have. It is also known as “Turkey day.” An American tradition is to have turkey on Thanksgiving. Families will cook an entire turkey and gather with their families. Some other traditional foods on Thanksgiving are mashed potatoes and stuffing. Also there are many desserts such as pies, mainly pumpkin pie. Basically almost every food is good to have on thanks giving. It’s a day you can eat as much as you want and not have to worry about if there is going to be enough because there is always going to be leftovers for everyone. This Thanksgiving I had it at my house and my family came over. Like every American household we ate dinner together and enjoyed the turkey and all the food. I tend to think of Thanksgiving as a normal day because most people look at Thanksgiving as a day where you eat a lot and as much as you can, but, for me, I do that every day. I always eat until I cannot eat anymore. Also on Thanksgiving there is football. All the fans love football on Thanksgiving and if you are lucky your favorite team will get a chance to play on Thanksgiving. This year my favorite team, the Eagles, did not play but I still enjoyed watching the other games that were on. Not only do I watch football on Thanksgiving, I also play it. Before the Thanksgiving “feast” me and a couple of my friends will get a pickup game of football going at our local school. We tend to play hard because all of us want the “Turkey trophy.” It is not physically a trophy it is just bragging rights up until next year. This year the team I was on won the game so I can talk smack to my friends for a while until next year. After the game when I am tired and starving, I will go home and enjoy the endless food that is at my house.

                Of all the holidays I guess I could say that Thanksgiving is one of my favorites because of the football games and all the football that surrounds it. I really enjoy watching the games and even playing in a game of my own. Also after Thanksgiving, Christmas is on its way which is mostly everyone’s favorite holiday due to all the presents. Christmas is kind of like Thanksgiving combined with presents and more. After Christmas is New Years which I did not enjoy that much when I was younger but as I got older it started to appeal to me more. Overall the holidays are a fun couple months considering that all the other months are boring with no excitement. I look forward to the holidays every year.