Thanks, El. I know how close you are with your family and this COVID just makes it all worse, doens't it? :(
I am fortunate and I don't take that for granted, not for even a minute. Nobody would have dared gotten up from Thanksgiving to go shopping while my mother was alive and now, I would be shocked, but, as I say that, one of my cousins called from downtown last black Friday to tell everyone how the sales were terrible. It still shocks me that shopping is that important. So many people equate bigger present with more love.
Seriously?
I agree with you, one of the reasons I don't go shopping (on top of the fact that I am with the people I love best!) is I won't support it. My parents wouldn't shop on Sundays, ever! When they repealed the blue laws, it broke my mothers heart. She said it was the beginning of the end of family life. Not quite right, but, family life used to be getting to gether every Sunday at Grandmas house afer church. Now, there isn't time for church because people work on Sundays. I do very little on Sunday except be with family, if I can help it.
Well, I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving, my friend!