BLOTTING OUT BLACK FRIDAY

Marion Pellicano Ambrose
Halloween has come and gone and it’s time to celebrate the official day of being grateful – Thanksgiving. What an important a concept to teach our children and to remember for ourselves! And yet, TV, Movies, radio stations and department stores have virtually skipped right over this special holiday and jumped ahead to Christmas!

Macy's Parade in the 1950's

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Christmas! I love to decorate and bake, wrap gifts and sing Christmas Carols, but NOT IN NOVEMBER! What ever happened to Christmas season beginning at the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade when Santa walks into Macy’s? My sister and I would sit with our Dad, just waiting for that special moment. It was only after that event that we were allowed to start decorating and playing our Christmas records. (yes, I did play records - 33RPM albums of Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and Johnny Matthis!)                                                                                                                       The next day -BLACK FRIDAY! The official beginning of the frantic search for just the right gift for everyone on your Christmas list!

LUNCH TIME POLL

Dawn Boyle

Over the River and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go! Today is the first of much traveling that I will do for this HOLY WEEK! Today we will celebrate Passover with my mother-in-law and her family. Then Sunday we split the day. Greek Easter at my brother and sister-in-laws in Bayville, NY and then we hit my Aunts for my Easter with my family...lots of food, lots of fun, lots of driving!

How are you spending the holidays?

Are you like me, do you celebrate multiple religious holidays?

Do you split the holidays with your spouse and their family?

When does it get easier?

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