{"id":61,"date":"2008-11-30T22:10:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T03:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucepress.net\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-11-30T22:10:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T03:10:56","slug":"bloody-well-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Bloody well worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wife, kids and myself just completed the grueling post-Thanksgiving trip home from Connecticut.\u00a0 We even set a new record, 10 hours!\u00a0 That is four hours over a typical Maryland to Connecticut run and an hour over the previous record set somewhere around 1990.<\/p>\n

Even while the aches of that marathon journey still restrict my movements, I can cheerily state it was worth it and I’d do it again tomorrow.\u00a0 Thanksgiving is far and away my favorite holiday.\u00a0 It is all about family, food and laughter.\u00a0 It has been this way for quite a while and I guess it isn’t going to change.\u00a0 We’ve established some new rituals, like my brother’s Thanksgiving-eve cocktail party and the Black Friday trip to the movies with my sister and her kids.\u00a0 But it is the basic premise, that we’ll all be together for Thanksgiving, that holds true.<\/p>\n

This year, the potential for a less than stellar get together was there.\u00a0 Some family changes are in progress, which is always difficult as well\u00a0 it was the first Thanksgiving we’ve been without my stepmother.\u00a0 It was she who firmly established Thanksgiving as the holiday to come home for.\u00a0 It was fitting for my family to settle on a secular holidays to come together.\u00a0 While we were all raised Jewish, I don’t think it ever quite held the importance for us that family itself did.\u00a0 So, as adults, it continued to decline in interest and prominence.<\/p>\n

Happily,\u00a0 every seemed ready for a time of hugs and laughter.\u00a0 We play very well together and it seems that we never quite get enough of one another.\u00a0 Luckily, this continues in the next generation of cousins who are always anxious to see each other and act like no time has past.\u00a0 Which is kind of funny, since all we can see is how much they’ve changed as they grow between visits.<\/p>\n

The holidays take on greater significance as the demands of our very separate lives keep us apart the rest of the year and we’ll keep doing battle with the New Jersey Turnpike to be there.\u00a0 These times are truly precious and few.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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