It's Thanksgiving week, and you know what that means! You're going to have to text your parents a lot more than you have any other week in 2024. Thanksgiving can be such a pain because it's such a blip of a holiday. You travel thousands of miles to see family to eat one meal together, and watch a football game. At least during Christmas, you've got that ambiguous week before New Year's to chill out and do nothing. With Thanksgiving, you have all the travel and chaos of Christmas with little of the leisure and payoff, and that's the case even if you get along with your family.
A lot of people have the combined stress of dealing with dysfunctional family members and making sure a big bird doesn't taste like wet paper towels when taken out of the oven. These parenting texts might be relatable if you need a second to decompress from that stress.