Assignment 14: Sara Ueland

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it involves family and mass amounts of food (doesn’t get better than that.) Ever since my siblings flew off to college, home life isn’t the same and not nearly as fun. Thanksgiving gives me the chance to spend time with my loverly siblings and reconnect. Thanksgiving in the Ueland house is always filled with preparation for the lunch/dinner that awaits us. It also includes some type of physical activity because what’s a Ueland family function without exercise? This year we ran a 5k (which I had the pleasure of running into the Log Dog himself) and in past years we have played soccer at Henry Clay. My dad is the master chef of the house so he does all the hard work while is stand there and look pretty. I have very little cooking abilities so I am normally stuck with the arduous work of polishing the silver. My strangest memory happened this year. We always invite Jevic’s family over for Thanksgiving dinner because they are practically family. Jevic’s sister, Merdi, is social media obsessed. She always snapchats the meals and this year she made our family do the mannequin challenge. If you knew my parents you would know how out of the loop they are and how terrifying it would be to watch them pose while jamming to Black Beetle. That has by far been my weirdest, but funniest Thanksgiving memory.