What Am I doing Here?
Dog and Cat – Unlikely Friends at Thanksgiving
Funy Thanksgiving Children’s Stories
Gratitude
In the week before Thanksgiving Mary-Jo asked her class of 9 year-olds to write a paragraph entitled:
‘What I am most thankful for on Thanksgiving Day’.
All Joey could write was: ‘I am thankful that I’m not a turkey at Thanksgiving.’
Crossing I
Mary-Jo (Teacher): Why did the turkey cross the road?
Joey: It was the chicken’s day off.
Crossing II
Mary-Jo: ‘Why do you think that the Pilgrims sail from England to America?’
Joey: ‘Because they missed their plane.’
Crossing IIIMary-Jo: ‘What did the farmer get when he crossed a centipede with a turkey?’
Joey: ‘100 drumsticks.’
Those Ancestors!
The Taylor’s were proud of their family tradition. Their ancestors had travelled to America with the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower. They had included Congressmen, successful entrepreneurs, famous sports people and television stars.
They decided to research and write a family history, something for their children and grandchildren. They found a specialist genealogist and writer to help them. Only one problem arose – how to handle Great Uncle Jefferson Taylor who was executed in the electric chair.
The writer said she could handle the story tactfully. When the book appeared the section about Jefferson read:
Great Uncle Jefferson Taylor occupied a chair of applied electronics at an important government institution, he was attached to his position by the strongest of ties, and his death came as a great shock.
The Turkey – A most difficult bird to cook
Louise was away from home on Thanksgiving Day for the first time and she was missing her home and family desperately. Louise decided to cook a turkey herself, just like her Mum used to, so that she could feel closer to her family.
Louise returned home for the celebrations and recounted her experience to her Mum saying, ‘Mum. it was so difficult to eat the turkey.’
‘How would I know?’ responded Louise, ‘it wouldn’t sit still.’
Sarah Hale, a magazine editor, campaigned tirelessly for a national Thanksgiving day. Hale wrote in Godey’s Lady’s Book, eventually Sarah’s idea caught the president’s eye and in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the idea of November Thanksgiving, to be precise, that last Thursday in November would be a national day of Thanksgiving. In 2008, Thanksgiving day falls on November 27th, in 2009 it will be on November 26th.
