Where did Thanksgiving go?

Have you seen

the "before black Friday sales"

Are they Kidding? no really?

I mean I know the economy is in the tank

and financial desperation have plagued our land

but isn't this all sorts of backwards in stuff?

I am a vintage girl

I love my children

I am a stay at home mom

I have given up every desire to own glitter

to provide quality education to my kiddos

I prepare meals on a budget

and shop with coupons

I only buy it if I have the money and it is on sale

I give of my gifts and talents which are purely homemade

I enjoy making handmade cards and costumes

and above all

I make our small rental, home

So when everyone whom owns 3 cars a dog and 2.5 children

are planning on dropping a grand at

"before black Friday sales"

I am simply shopping sales for a Thanksgiving meal

and treats to take to school

and I am in awe

looking at the tv like a cod fish

doing a double take

and really questioning if I heard right

Sadly it is true

Commercialized craziness at it's finest

Yet I find myself wanting to walk 70 years into the past

to a place where health and joy were rare in fashion

Who cares about the "big toy" that all the kids have to have

just give me hugs and cider

Someone tell my weeping heart

where Thanksgiving went.