Speaking as someone who has marshalled an expensive array of ingredients into Thanksgiving dinner twenty years in a row, not to mention spending the previous week cleaning and preparing, I have to question whether it’s all worth it. I’m so exhausted that I can’t enjoy the guests. So, unless you have an army of helpers, or you can afford caterers, I say “Bah, humbug” to all of that hyped up folderol.
Speaking as a woman who has produced a Thanksgiving meal after taking a few weeks to thoroughly clean my house from cellar to attic — my obligatory Christmas cleaning — for close to 40 years, I say it is well worth it. (I have been keeping house for 44 years, but Thanksgiving was at my mother’s home for the early years.)
My dear departed mother taught her daughters the importance of putting forth your best for your family and your faith.
Yes, I am tired after all of it is done, but I am peaceful and grateful. And thankful that God has allowed me to remain healthy enough to complete all of my work.