A Pennington Thanksgiving

So chances are the biggest holiday in your family is Christmas. Am I right? I'm right, arent' I? Don't deny it! But for the Pennington family, it's Thanksgiving. Everyone who knows my family in the slightest knows our habits about buying things. So of course a day where we can actually give gifts to ourselves (i.e. food) is a dream! So once a year, the majority of the Pennington family gathers at my grandparents house for a free meal. But this is the Pennington family... naturally it is extremely different from how a normal family is. Examples of these differences:

Pronounced blondness and epic failure abounds!
-Every female in the family becomes the blondest, country-est person you have ever laid eyes on. My mother, from Ohio, is a prime example of this. This year as I was placing a pan in the refrigerator, it would not quite fit. My mother, in all her brilliance, says, "turn it sideways." I turn to her and respond, "It's a square, mom...." Now any normal person would immediately realize that this means all the sides are equal! But not my mom! O no... she has to say, "Try it anyways!" Many episodes of these types of airheadedness take place all Thanksgiving day!

A time for news to be shared.
-For most families this would mean catching up or saying how life is going. Not my family! Whenever we get big news, we ALWAYS hold it until Thanksgiving. This has been everything from the announcing of a pregnancy to showing off a birth none of us were aware of. O! and even a favorite cousing coming out of the closet! Not by telling us... but by showing up with his boyfriend. Yes, tons of fun that Pennington family!

The stealing of food.
-Naturally, when there is vast amounts of food prepared, lots of it will be eaten before the yearly command of "dig in." But this is Pat Pennington food... So you know there is much of it and it is all delicious. One thing that is prepared exceptionally well is the deviled eggs. They are a veritable tradition! Every year, my dad fixes 2 dozen more. And every year.... they never survive to dinner! One year, they were all stolen and we STILL don't know who took them. Literally, the entire tray was gone! But this happens not only to the eggs. We never have food left over after Thanksgiving. Not because everyone eats it! O no... that's too simple! But instead because the entire family STEALS the trays back home! I live in a family of thieves!

Falling into the lake.
-There is a lake behind my grandparent's house. It is the Maywood lake. Every year, SOMEONE falls into the lake. In November. This has been because of a variety of reasons. Such as trying to shoot a snake with a BB gun, trying to catch a fish in a bucket from a boat, drunkeness, and even because they were on fire.... Gotta love the Penningtons!

The head bumb!
-My grandparents are short. The rest of family is not that short... My grandparents' door frames are very small.... Every year, many curses are shouted as people smack their heads on door frames constantly! My seven foot tall cousin wears a helmet over now. It took him 10 Thanksgivings to think that one up... We all look like we had been headbutting when we finally leave.

This is just the highlights of a Pennington family Thanksgiving. Of course there is much more to it. But this is just what I think of every year....
Holla!