Picture this, instead of a big juicy turkey on your Thanksgiving table, a big interesting antelope. Antelope for Thanksgiving, what??  Now think about decorating gingerbread houses, but your aunt making the icing wrong, so you use hot pink duct tape instead to hold it together. Finally, the best part of all, your parents are divorced and they fight over every holiday for you; get ready for the Dove Family drama!

Holidays are supposed to be about love, support, and family? Don’t get me wrong, I love my family and would not trade them for anything in the world. However, something about the holidays; maybe it’s the spiked egg nog, turns my family into interesting beings.  My Aunt Debbie is the silliest woman on earth, when I say silly I mean outrageous.  She doesn’t cook, and when she does…watch out! One Thanksgiving, my Uncle went hunting and brought home an antelope, she figured let’s make this for Thanksgiving Dinner. Needless to say, the whole family was politely spitting into their napkins and feeding the meat to the dog.

Things haven’t always been this way, when my parents were still married; our family traded who had Thanksgiving and Christmas at their houses, now we just head to my aunt’s house.  I never knew what it truly felt like to be pulled apart until my parents started fighting over holidays. Something, I have learned and taken as a blessing is that holidays are never boring in my family.