Happy Thanksgiving!

[Felix]

I guess my people are just more of a resort people.  But my dad worked commercial aviation and he was working Xmas (and could meet up with us no matter where we were), so we spent a bunch of Xmas up in Tahoe skiing, I spent one camping in Death Valley (and 3 of the most awesome NYE there too) and one on the shores of Waikiki Beach when I was growing up.  My kids had Xmas at two different ski resorts, we were camping on the rim of the Grand Canyon and singing carols with the waitresses and drivers while having 'turkey with all the trimmins' in a truck stop outside of Flagstaff one year, camping on Cape Blas another year.  Some at home, some at my parents.  Pretty much once they know that there is no Santa Claus it doesn't matter where you do it.  Christmas is not site specific.

I guess I always figured they were my kids, I could do with them as I pleased so long as I didn't break them.

I never said anything about the site of the holidays. So...I've been deeply in poverty most of my life. There's not really a delicate way to contrast that with what you described. We've spent some christmases homeless. Before I had my daughter I hitchhiked a lot, and I've always moved around a lot, so no I don't have any attachment to the idea of converging on a particular place for celebrating.

But I don't make my daughter avoid christmas for the same reason I don't try to force her to be vegan or an atheist. Lol I'd feel so mean. xD

[Felix]

Another tradition during Thanksgiving and Christmas as well is people of all walks of life, rich and poor come together to donate their time and/or money to provide a holiday meal to the less fortunate

City centers, churches and others are filled with folks who would not otherwise have a holiday dinner... I can think of nothing that will lift the spirits like serving up the goods to another 

This post got me examining my life, and I realized I contribute volunteer work but I tend to try to keep my daughter out of it. She's got difficulties, but she's not incapacitated or anything. So I signed us both up for a shift at the food bank, and if it goes well we'll try to do it again in the future. They said that sorting and packaging the bulk food can be done by kids as young as 6.