Thanksgiving Cancelled Due To Lack Of Interest!

Every couple of years, my eldest son’s birthday falls on Thanksgiving. There is nothing he hates more in the world than to have a birthday cake with a Thanksgiving turkey on it.

Because of that preference, every time his birthday falls on Thanksgiving, we give him a choice of what he would like to do to celebrate.

What do YOU think he is going to choose? He habitually cancels Thanksgiving due to lack of interest and opts to celebrate his birthday of course!

The last time this happened was when he turned 7. We had wanted to take him to New York to see the Macy’s parade, but the World Trade Center had just fallen down so we decided that it probably wasn’t a good idea to go.

Instead, we opted to spend Thanksgiving weekend in Houston at the lake home of some of our very best friends.

Lucky for us, they are very like minded, and didn’t have any problem canceling Thanksgiving to celebrate Bregon’s birthday.

In fact, we were all so excited, we through all of our energy into the party plans. We decided to go ahead and celebrate his birthday that Thursday, and Thanksgiving would be celebrated on that Friday.

Our friends lived in a rural area, and had this tradition of having birthday bon-fires for each of their children’s birthday’s so Bregon would finally get to have a bon-fire of his own.

He was very excited at the prospect of getting to tend his own birthday bonfire!

As an added plus, one of the Harry Potter movies had just opened and we planned on hauling everyone into the Woodlands to see the movie as part of the celebration!

Both our family, and our friends and their family threw all of their energy into planning the parties. I think we all over-bought in the present department!

We decided to go ahead and plan on hot dogs and s’mores and other camp-fire type foods for the birthday, and we went crazy on the Thanksgiving food preparation as well!

When the big day came, we managed to pile about 15 of us into 2 vehicles and get everyone to the movie on time.

Because we were going for the early movie, we ended up getting the early-bird special on the tickets and somehow ended up getting let in early ahead of the line.

I am still not sure if it was because Kat had called ahead and told them that we were coming with a birthday boy in tow, or if it was the fact that Bregon had received a complete Harry Potter outfit along with some home-made accessories in the form of a cape and real wood wand and had been wearing the entire lot of it at the time, but we managed to get VIP treatment at the theater.

Later that afternoon, we set out all of the party food, invited all of our friends in the area over for the party, and let Bregon tend to his very own bon-fire.

He danced around his bon-fire wearing his new Darth Maul underwear on his head and parts of his Harry Potter costume…namely his cape and wand!

Of course we just had to take those condemning blackmail photo’s for when he was older. Oddly enough, we have the second wave of those pictures nearly 5 years later… but I digress!

The birthday party went over smashingly and was a success. That night, we geared up to celebrate Thanksgiving for the next day.

We prepared everything from the traditional turkey and even a ham, to foods such as home-made salsa and tabouli that we just decided were necessary for whatever reason or anther!

It was funny, really. Nobody seemed to mind making the changes to allocate for Bregon’s birthday. It seemed almost natural, really.

As it turned out, we ended up having a rather large turnout of party-goers in spite of it being Thanksgiving. Many even either stayed the night or came over the next day to join us for our belated Thanksgiving celebration.

This year Bregon’s birthday will fall on Thanksgiving again. We are currently out of Harry Potter movies to go and see at the theater, so we shall have to come up with something else to do that day.

We do have a fireplace now, so I suppose we could have everyone over for a weenie roast and S'mores!

I am not sure what my father or the rest of my family thought about our of canceling Thanksgiving in lieu of celebrating Bregon’s birthday that year, but that was the way it went.

That was the plan, however, and we were sticking to it! After all, how dreary it would it have been to have to had a turkey with a candle stuck in it for your birthday!