I see your china and raise you Chinet.

Ours is a casual, jeans-and-boots kind of affair.

I never thought much about this tradition of necessity until COVID-19 struck.

Family Thanksgiving at South Carolina farm

Credit:Peter Frank Edwards

With just my parents, sisters, and I spending Thanksgiving together, things looked a little different.

It was lovely, and there was nary a paper plate in sight.

And what do you know?

Thats a tradition worth holding onto.