My 4th Grade Style Essay on Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Today is a day to share with loved ones, even if those loved ones are in manic depression because they just sat in a car together all day.

Thanksgiving is a day to eat turkey until it hurts and blame tryptophan on your inability to stay awake when talking to relatives about politics.

Thanksgiving is a day to be thankful for my family and, when the weekend is over, be fortunate that they live five hours away from me.

Thanksgiving is a day to wake up at 9 a.m., nevermind that you went to bed at 3 a.m., to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Then discover it was way more magical as child and, in atypical fashion, that Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira are awkward.

Now it's time to clean the apartment because, as of twenty minutes ago, I decided to host my family.

Here's to a Thanksgiving day full of prayers.