Ever since my childhood

Ever since my childhood, Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday, and I recall that my mother and maternal grandmother spent many weeks preparing for the festivities. What each of us remembers about our childhoods has always been a subject of fascination to me, in the sense that even those raised in the same home with the same experiences will recall different aspects of what transpired.  For example, when I was young, many of my cousins, aunts and uncles, would have Thanksgiving together each year, but one vivid memory of mine that is not shared by many in my family is the trip with Mama and, sometimes, Daddy, to "pick up" our dressed Thanksgiving turkey in rural Suwannee County.