Fun Saturday Care Of Pinterest

Our Best Bites' Oreo Turkeys click here for directions

What do you do on a cold rainy Saturday at Grandma’s house?

You looks for crafts on Pinterest!

The Canadian Thanksgiving is October 12th this year 

so we looked for table favours and found to wonderful food crafts

just right for grandchildren and grandma.

There was great merriment at Grandma’s house from both the pleasure of creating and a very big sugar high!

Honey and Butter's Chocolate Acorns click here for directions

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2015 twosnydergirls

10 Things I Give Thanks For

The Only Appropriate Response Is Gratefulness

 

Waking to the sounds of Peace, Safety, and Family waking around me.

That I have ears to hear with.

Turning to see the sleeping face of my life partner, relaxed, calm, and alive in sleep.

That I have eyes to see with.

Slippers on feet I walk to washroom and turn on clean water to drink and wash with.

That I have mobility.

I walk into the warm embrace of the person I love and look upon his loving smile.

That I can give and receive Love.

I smile back and raise my voice, “I love you”

That I have a voice.

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2014 twosnydergirls

Happy Thanksgiving or Happy Harvest

Happy Thanksgiving or Happy Harvest

Today many people will have left their place of employment wishing and being wished a Happy Thanksgiving.  

The Canadian and American Thanksgiving tradition comes down to us from our colonialist ancestors who gave thanks to their God for providing them with the bounty of the New World. 

History records this first celebration to have occurred around 1621 and records that Colonist and Aboriginal people shared in an autumn harvest feast together.

Since that first harvest celebration Thanksgiving Day has come to mean something very different for the Aboriginal people who continue in their struggle to coexist with us.

History records that without the help of the Aboriginal people who lived in what is now Canada and the United States those very same Colonist would have starved to death that first winter. 

Little did the Aboriginal people know that they were helping to keep alive a culture that would in less than 100 years begin a systematic process of genocide directed at them.

This Thanksgiving weekend in Canada while those of us who benefited from colonization celebrate Thanksgiving the Aboriginal population lives in poverty.   

Aboriginal women and children are the poorest people in Canada and 20% of the Aboriginal communities in Canada as of 2012 did not have safe drinking water.

Happy Thanksgiving for our Canadian Aboriginal communities, no I don’t think so. 

Columbus Day and Thanksgiving Day for Aboriginal Canadian is experienced through these and many more historical facts:

• Small pox epidemic of brought to North America by settlers who knowingly gave their contaminated blankets to the Aboriginal people killing an estimated 90% of the population.

• Loss of traditional lands

• Residential schools

• The 1960’s scoop of Aboriginal children who were placed for adoption in while homes

• The Highway of Tears where today Aboriginal women continue to go missing in numbers that would be unacceptable if these same women were white.

As a grandparent I want to my grandchildren to know and understand what Thanksgiving means in its full context. 

I hope and pray that with this knowledge that they will help to build a different world than the one I helped to build.

Today as I left work I greeted everyone with Happy Harvest weekend, as my way of acknowledging that for many Canadians, the first Canadians this weekend is not about giving thanks.

Grandma Snyder