Thanksgiving

My Future Kids will never be alone on Thanksgiving. At least, they won't need to be. My Future Kids will never need to bear Awkwardsgiving with just me and Spouse. I may not have any good extended family, but Spouse might. Even if we have no real family outside of ourselves and Our Future Kids, we will have other people over. Maybe friends or neighbors or randoms. I'm not huge on the holidays, but actually I am. Thanksgiving is all about people coming together. I don't think My Future Kids will ever need to feel alone on Thanksgiving. They don't need to spend it with me, but they definitely will never spend it with just me and Spouse.
In the interest of full (almost) disclosure, I'm having a pretty interesting Thanksgiving right now. You can ask me about it if you like. I'm spending it with my friends and we ate Indian food for dinner. Also I bought a cheap pie crust with pumpkin filling and I stole some cranberry sauce to make my dinner sufficiently Thanksgiving-y.
Anyway, neither I nor My Future Kids will ever be alone on Thanksgiving. I think that the very saddest thing is being alone for Thanksgiving. That is how you know that you are truly alone. Now, I typically don't believe in having emotions, but for some reason, Thanksgiving lunch at my school was strangely meaningful and emotionally charged for me. I think Thanksgiving is a great way to think about the people in your life and appreciate them. To be alone on Thanksgiving is to have no one. Even dinner with strangers on Thanksgiving is better than being alone.
Moral of the story: I, and therefore My Future Kids, refuse to be forever alone.