Under Attack

"Thanksgiving is under attack!" I heard those words this morning after breakfast from my Brianaby.  He declared years ago, as in I hear this every year, that Thanksgiving is his favorite holiday.  I'm so very happy that he is thankful for all of his blessings.  I am too! It's just that in his "I am the spokesman for preserving the sanctity of Thanksgiving" campaign, he has also seemed to take it out on Christmas.  Now I get it...people are skipping over Thanksgiving more and more to move straight to Christmas.  I am NOT in favor of that at all.  It aggravates me too that stores and marketing campaigns "get their Christmas on" right after Halloween without even recognizing Thanksgiving at all.  It's truly a shame.

However, here is where we differ.  While I love Thanksgiving and all it represents, I think of the Thanksgiving season beginning on November 1 and ending on Thanksgiving Day.  Of course, I believe that Thanksgiving should be in our hearts and shown in our attitudes all year long too!  Thanksgiving Day, in my opinion, is the culmination of the Thanksgiving season.  Just like Christmas Day is the culmination of a month of Christmas celebration.  Brian disagrees and basically thinks that Thanksgiving begins the day before and continues all through the weekend.  I've tried to explain that I spend the WHOLE month of November teaching about Thanksgiving, making mind maps of turkeys, making tiny cornucopias and Pilgrim hats, comparing children from long ago with children today, making Venn Diagrams of wild turkeys and domestic turkeys, etc, etc, etc....you get the point.  By the time Thanksgiving Day comes and goes, I'm done.  By that point, I'm mostly just thankful that I don't have to look at another snood or wattle. 

Why does this matter you ask? BECAUSE EVERY STINKIN' YEAR WE DISAGREE ABOUT WHEN TO DECORATE FOR CHRISTMAS.  The way I see it (and of course I'm right), no Christmas decorating shall occur on or before Thanksgiving Day. After that, all bets are off.  It just makes sense that we should decorate sometime during the rest of the weekend because we are already off of work/school not to mention the fact that Thanksgiving is OVER so why not?! If it doesn't get done during Thanksgiving weekend, AFTER THANKSGIVING DAY, then we will have to wait until the next weekend because we are generally just too tired and busy with activities/homework during the week.  That's a whole week I miss out on enjoying the Christmas tree! Plus it means that the earliest the tree can go up will be December 3.  That's two days late! It also totally screws up my advent calendar! AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

But apparently I am part of the "Thanksgiving is under attack" group, so every year I give in.  I let him have his way because I love him and I'm thankful for him.  Not to mention, I've learned through the years that when my husband feels strongly about something, there's just no use arguing. 

NO JOKE! As I was typing this, Brian just walked into the room and said the following:

"I think they ought to take the Johnny Depp version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and burn any master copies, confiscate every personal copy, launch them into space, and wipe every mention of it from the history of the world so that it never existed.  They've made the world a darker place by releasing that abomination on it.  They've desecrated the memory of a beautiful, perfect, innocent masterpiece that was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder."

Apparently, my husband has some opinions people and today is the day he has decided to share them.  Watch out!