End Notes: Mother’s Thanksgivings

My mother did our Thanksgivings, all my growing up years — with the six kids and later, their spouses and their children. It’s my favorite holiday. Our family felt big back then, but now it has grown even bigger. Mom has 15 grandchildren and more than 30 great-granchildren. Five of her six kids live in the Inland Northwest, and my sister Lucia is moving back in January, after 40 years living in the East. Nearly half my grown nieces and nephews, and their children, also live here. We would have to rent out a hall to fit us all and none of us grown daughters, or our sisters-in-law, inherited the cultural and familial imperative that the matriarch must do the holidays, without much help and without complaint/ Rebecca Nappi , End Notes. More here.

Question: How many will be at your Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow? Family? Friends?