I’d like to offer up a different perspective for y’all on this Thanksgiving afternoon

I tell my students to call their grandparents. I wish I could call mine.

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I tell my students 

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I like to think that the bitching in the other thread, year after year, thanksgiving after thanksgiving, actually shows an honest commitment to and appreciation of family despite their faults.

We’re all cousin Eddie at some point.

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I tell my students to call their grandparents.

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I still have a few random voicemails from my wife's grandparents (who I was very close to) they always brighten my day when I listen to them.

I have a sister battling cancer and having a rough time.
I have another sister with health issues, and a husband bound to a wheelchair, so I'm trying to help them whenver I can. They live about 45 minutes from me.
I have a niece going through health issues, and a nephew in law who just has brain surgery and is on a ventilator.

I see stuff like that, and other people who have health issue, especially those younger than me, and it makes my problems pretty small.

I'm slowly learning to be thankful for each day I can take care of myself. Happy Thanksgiving all

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I tell my students to call their grandparents. I wish I could call mine.

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I wish I had known mine. I’ve always made sure my kids spent plenty time with the grands.