Assignment 14 - Claire Thompson

I have a pretty small family. I only have my parents, my sister, my grandmothers, and my aunt. When my family gets together, we can all comfortably sit around the kitchen table. Every member of my family, with the exception of my aunt, lives in my neighborhood. Every Sunday, we all eat dinner together anyway (except for my aunt, because she lives in Cleveland). So when Thanksgiving rolls around, it really isn’t all that much different from any other dinner—except my dad spends all day basting a turkey and we watch the parade on TV that morning. Sometimes our close family friends come over for desert. Me and my sister have to look nice. I have to do a lot of dishes at the end of the night. But the best part about it all though is the fact that we don’t have school that day or the day before or the day after. Also pecan pie.