Dream of Family Past

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Dream of Family Past

YES! 429 Kingsbury, Dearborn, MI. 

Family party next Thursday! We'll all be there, don't be late!

Nanny, Poppy, Aunt Jean, Uncle Roy with his accordion and home movie camera, the Anderson little kids, Ken, Ricky&Vicky, Laurie and Chris, Ruby and Ray, Kathay, JoBill, Bobbi, and little John, Uncle Gus and Aunt Betty, Lyn, Billy, Cathie, and Mary, orphan cousins and mean shits Tommy and Jimmy, and every family needs a child molester, so Uncle Wheeler and Aunt Mabel will show up, and every family needs a link to lawyers and crime, so MarySue and her little girl Paulette will join us, and MarySue's parents, I never remember their names or how we're related, Nanny's cousin? Some step-kids, some step-dads, some orphans, some transplanted relatives from California, some almost strangers, but tonight is time to smile and relax.

Ya, ya, all the fixin's, 25 lb. turkey, sage and celery stuffing to die for, enough gravy to swim in, 3 green bean casseroles, 2 mac and cheese casseroles, oyster and cracker stuff, mashed potatoes by the kilo, the cranberry jiggly stuff from the can, that weird ground up cranberry and orange rind stuff - yuck -  and six pumpkin pies! Nanny, with her strange hand with two fingers gone in that car accident, makes the whipped cream from real cream, perfect!

Beer drinkin' in the basement, while the women are downing Jim Beam by the shots while pulling the food together. Some of us bad kids would be the beer runners for the beer drinkers, and fun to be had to take an empty beer bottle, fill it with water, and bring that to Uncle Roy and watch him take that first drink! Bad!

 Jam four card tables in the living room, little kids can share a chair, and Uncle Roy will get out his home movie camera and we can make faces at that contraption!

Do not - I repeat - DO NOT - lock the bathroom door. That lock is grumpy and we don't want to send JoBill in the bathroom window to jiggle it loose. Then 10 other people are ready to pee their pants waiting for that hassle. 

After dinner, after clean-up, Uncle Roy gets out the accordion, and you can ask him to play any popular tune and he can! And he does! Aunt Jean is so happy that her hubby is such a sweet and talented easy fellow. She won the lottery with that guy. Her loving smile says a lot.

The 12 inch tv stays off tonight, we are our entertainment, and love every minute of this fun day, no pressure with the xmas gift thing, no pressure about religious stuff on Thanksgiving, it's just good food, good fun, and good family - most of us, anyway!

We smile away the dark times, some union folks are out of work right now, some are working 7 day weeks - today is their only day off in many months, all are watching every dollar as times are tight and nobody can count on a job tomorrow. We don't dare think about the crime that started Thanksgiving, history is sooooooo boring. Smile, damn it!

Tonight is our luxury, no richy rich person could be as happy as we are tonight. Each family leaves with leftovers, and each family has only one car, weird enough, and even our phones have cords, so there!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Soon, Cheers, Love, Love, Love, Bobbi, Mom, Aunt Karen, Karen!

E’d: Bill, Kathay, Pam, Luke, Garrett, Evan, Ken & Kathy, JoEllen, Lyn, Cathie