Thanksgiving is a time for family, friends, great food and of course, thankfulness. However, If you have a family like mine, you know that sometimes all of that goes out the window, and it’s utter chaos. There are children running, moms rushing to get things done and men lounging–like always. The males and females of the world think of this holiday quite differently.
When a female thinks about Thanksgiving, she usually thinks of cleaning her house for weeks, getting up extremely early to cook, making pies for days, making sure the entire family is there and making everything absolutely perfect. She then spends all day running and working her tail off to make sure everything goes the way it should. It’s kind of like running a circus.
While we are polishing, peeling, mixing, arranging, planning, the men are very busy as well. They spend their time lounging on the couch, watching TV, unbuttoning their pants because they ate too much and screaming at the football game on TV. A man on Thanksgiving day will get up for two things–bathroom breaks and more food, although, he usually doesn’t have to get up for more food because the enablers of the house are busy taking it to him.
We always see pictures of the men carving the turkey and serving it to the family. He gets to be in the picture, but I don’t think he got himself out of bed at 6 a.m. to rub butter and herbs under that birds skin or worry about tenting the aluminum foil to keep it from getting too brown during the roasting process or trying to arrange the oven to accommodate the bird, the pies, the dressing and that obnoxious casserole that always accompanies a certain relative.
Even though the woman does everything to make the day successful, he’s the one who stands in the lime light.
The woman then gets little or no sleep that night because she has to be shopping all day the next day to make sure she gets the best deals on everything her family needs for Christmas. She spends Black Friday pushing and shoving at 2 in the morning to get what the rest of the family put on their Christmas wish lists. If a man has to go out on Black Friday, he needs to be tricked into it with promises of flat-screen TV sales.
The fact is, the women are the only reason holidays go the way they’re supposed to. So the next time you see a picture with an over-stuffed male standing in the middle of a charming holiday scene, look behind him to the mastermind of the whole thing.