Another year, another successful Thanksgiving. As I looked through Snapchat, I saw plenty of delicious looking tables filled with food. As I scrolled through Instagram, I saw plenty of nice family photos. As I scrolled through Facebook, I unfortunately saw plenty of family mannequin challenges. As for me, my Thanksgiving went as I thought—a LOT of food, family, and football. Looking back, I thought to myself of what I would consider the best or funniest moments of my Thanksgiving that could (or I hope) relate to others. Here is the Mount Rushmore of my Thanksgiving:
4. Thanksgiving lasts 7 hours…
Don’t get me wrong; of course I love spending all day with family. But, we start appetizers at 1 PM and don’t eat turkey until 6:30 PM. How is that possible? After sitting down to eat other meals besides the actual dinner, I’m wiped out by like 4. Are we the only family that takes that long to actually sit down and eat turkey? This is definitely one of the top moments every year because I feel like everyone is home for the night, thinking about Black Friday and we haven’t even served dessert yet.
3. Family arguments
Family arguments are a lot better when they revolve around football and not politics. Pass interference or Donald Trump? I’ll take an argument about pass interference any day. After our annual football game (spoiler alert) there was plenty of arguing about the game—as usual. Avoiding politics would usually earn the number one spot, but we did fall to some discussion on legalizing weed and letting pigs sit down in a cage before killing them. But, no one mentioned emails or a wall so that is a plus.
2. Pasta an hour before turkey
Are we the only family that has a full bowl of pasta, basically right before having the basic turkey dinner? I honestly don’t know if this is something most families do or just us. Either way, any excuse to mix in some pasta sounds delicious to me. Not saying I’m not a turkey and gravy guy or anything, but no matter the holiday or occasion, pasta is always an option.
1. Annual football game
One of the most hyped games I have ever taken part in. And as many of my friends know, I play a lot of intramurals, so that is saying something. But, the one thing I learned is that the game is a lot better when you win—especially when it is a 5-0 blowout. That is 364 more days of bragging rights. 364 more days of trash talking. 364 more days of rubbing the victory in the face of my uncle, brother, and cousins. Always a fun game, basically in the pitch black, definitely earns it the number one spot on my Mount Rushmore.Honorable Mention: Shoutout to my mom for taking who knows how long to make this delicious antipasto dish:
Maybe this is why Thanksgiving last 7 hours?
