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The start of November marks the beginning of the hectic holiday season. Thanksgiving will be here in the blink of an eye, and in another blink, it will be Christmas and then a whole new year. Whether you’re hosting Thanksgiving for 20 or an intimate Christmas brunch, this month’s giveaway — a stylish stacking dish from Layla Grace — will help you serve food like a pro.
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My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is Mrs. Smith's Deep Dish Apple pie and a homemade chocolate pecan pie!! Don't forget the vanilla ice cream and homemade whip cream!
The only thing traditional that has stayed the same every year is that we eat Turkey and Mashed potatoes. It's never the same thing every year and I noticed I usually have to work over the holidays compared to years past.
I spend Thanksgiving week with the kids who are on holiday from school. We spend the week decorating each room and finish up with the Christmas tree. After that it's non-stop Christmas music, hot chocolates, and cookie baking for the rest of the season. Truly our most favorite holiday and family time of the year!
We watch Thanksgiving Day parades and football!!
Enjoying Thanksgiving with family and friends. Good food and fellowship! We all have so much to be thankful for!
We have always had Thanksgiving with our children, and now with their spouses and our first grandchild. I love preparing the cornbread stuffing, fresh turkey with herbs, fresh cranberries, and making the pumpkin and apple pies with my daughter-in-law. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
Turkey dinner at mom's has always been the tradition. This years new tradition unfolds as we turn over Thanksgiving dinner to the younger generation…to host and create a whole new set of traditions!
spending time with family
Beautiful! Would love for holidays!
We always celebrate Thanksgiving at Disney World. We rent a condo, so we still make dinner. It's a fun tradition and we get to see the kickoff of the Christmas season there. There is nothing like seeing it snow in Florida. (Although, being from the midwest we are certainly no strangers!)
Our entire family, 3 generations, gets together the weekend after Thanksgiving. We eat leftovers, play Bunco or pictionary, and watch movies. We laugh, joke around, and reconnect.
I wanted to share w/my now 5 year old what Christmas is about. So we began making a Jesus birthday cake. She gets so excited about birthdays & parties I thought it would be a good way to keep the meaning of the holidays. My daughter loves sprinkles so we've always had sprinkles.
Each year, we always make one old recipe and one new recipe. The old is always my grandmother's stuffing and the new is whatever we are craving at the moment! Usually a dessert or a new way of cooking a turkey
On Thanksgiving we make sure to include our forgotten relatives. Butternut squash soup and Charlie Brown's Christmas album on in the background.
We enjoy deep fry a turkey and cook stuffing with Granny. Then we enjoy time with family and watch football!
Favorite memories: Hunting pine cones with my children to make colorful turkey centerpieces for our Thanksgiving tables (they traced their little hands onto colorful paper and cut them out to make the tail feathers), yummy family recipes, gathering with family, and taking time to reflect on God's goodness and all He's blessed us with!
We always have black olives along with other fresh veggies, as an appetizer on Thanksgiving. It's the only day of the year we have black olives, but I would miss them if we didn't.
Being from a large family, Thanksgiving was always a yearly get together for everyone at Mom and Dad's. Most of the family now have families of their own in different states so, it is hard to keep it together since Mom and Dad and a couple of siblings are no longer with us. But, my younger sister and family along with mine are keeping tradition alive for our children including all my Dad's recipes, being a retired Army mess hall sargent, of stuffed celery, garlic cole slaw and his yankee dressing (and Mom's cornbread dressing). After the big meal, we gather the children, young and old, and make ginger bread houses. Tradition means the world to my children and I believe they will keep it going even after me. For this, I am thankful.
Our family makes a Thanksgiving Tree. Each family member cuts out construction paper leaves & writes what they are thankful for this year. Then we decorate the tree with the leaves!
Our Thanksgiving traditions include a huge carne asada cookout with turkey as well (of course) and watching parades and football. This is one of my favorite holidays because it's really just about the family being together.
LOVE THE THREE TIER SERVING TRAY
Thanksgiving evening: The kids receive their new Christmas jammies from Sparkle, our elf.
There was always turkey and ham, and all the veggies and fixin's. My kids weren't too fond of broccoli but when I made it with cheese and ritz crackers they loved it. One year my husband's Uncle said it was time for a surkey tandwich! We all busted out laughing and had a 'surkey tandwich' with him!
We have none! My mother was of Italian descent and my father would always ask for spaghetti for Thanksgiving. I don't think he liked turkey. I married a guy whose mother cooked the whole turkey dinner, including sauerkraut in MD. So with us, it's a compromise. If I cook for the kids, I'll make a turkey for DIL, keilbasa and sauerkraut for the guys, and mac and cheese for me. Is that crazy? Just the two of us, we hit a local restaurant!
We make pumpkin bars, pumpkin blondes and watch the movie Christmas Vacation. We have all of our Christmas decorations up inside and out and turn all the lights on.
Thanksgiving and Christmas day we always have dinner at mom's house. At times there might be 19 people there with all the kids (more each year!) Being together and relaxing is the key!
My favorite Christmas song was" I'll be home for Christmas." We was in the Military now retired and that song got me through a lot of Christmas Holidays.
every year we go around the family table and say what we are thankful for.
My mother-in-law makes the best stuffing ever! I don't know what's in it, but it's made in a huge Nesco. Every year, I try to figure out ways I can hoard it for myself.
One of our Thanksgiving traditions is serving multiple "main" dishes besides turkey – my dad's allergic to poultry, so he always gets prime rib or ham. And my sister and I are vegetarian, so we come up with something different every year!
After we eat we watch Dallas Cowboys play football.
Favorite song for Thanksgiving is, "Over the River and Through the Woods."
Is there anything better than Bing Crosby serenading you through the holidays? It's "White Christmas" for me, all the way,
We make cooking a time of family refplection and stuff ourselves
I always make my apple-crisp for dessert.
Turkey with bacon is tradition! Also pumpkin pie!
We enjoy being together as a family , homemade dinner rolls, pecan pie and pumpkin pie. After the blessing on the feast but before we eat each of us share what we are thankful for.
We have four families to see every holiday, which was becoming stressful. So now, my husband makes a small meal for us and our three kids, which we enjoy in our pjs while watching football!
My family has a tradition of making the best stuffing and sweet potato pies. I use sausage in my stuffing.
We walk or run the Manchester Road Race, brunch at my in-laws and then turkey for dinner.
We have a tradition where everyone must write down what they are thankful for. However, you can not say health, family, or friends. Everyone really gets creative each year thinking of something better or funny. Some example for previous years are "I'm thankful for coordination or gravity"! So much fun!
Every year at Thanksgiving all our family and relatives get together, we pray and thank God for the previous year , eat delicious stuffed duck or turkey, and enjoy special time together.
We live out of town, so We alternate locations for Thanksgiving and Christmas every other year. We gather for a big family meal where everyone brings a dish, eats fried turkey, and watches football.
I love thanksgiving, its one of my favorite holiday. the family gets together and we all cook….everyone likes my sweet potatoes and they also love my sopipilla cheese cake. then we watch football and nap. Then we all play games and spend time together.
My favorite recipes for Thanksgiving would be my mother's cranberry nut pie and cranberry orange relish. It's a toss up as to which one is better.
Every year we go to my husband's extended family for lunch, after which we do a road rally. Then we head over for an evening with family.
We always host Thanksgiving at our house. We make everything from scratch including the stuffing which is a recipe that's been in the family for four generations
Holidays to our family usually mean tons of football, lots of decorations, and as much family and friends as we can be around!!
It's about spending the holidays with family
I grew up in Baltimore, MD and one of my favorite Holiday traditions was traveling with my grandmother and younger sister to downtown Baltimore and shopping for presents. My grandmother never drove, so we would take the train to downtown and search the many large department stores searching for the right gifts . After we were exhausted with bundles of packages in our hands we would go to the candy and nut store and get a bag of candy for the ride back home. We would sit outside of the candy store, sometimes in a flurry of snow whirling around us and ALWAYS the Christmas classic Silver Bells was playing. Still to this day, 25 years after my grandmother has passed every time I hear Silver Bells, I am taken back to the candy store sitting with my grandmother and sister enjoying the season and our special time together. It is such a wonderful memory for me.