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I had a chance to interview Chloe the Pilgrim Girl--one of the menu-planners for the very first Thanksgiving!
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108 comments:
All my very favorite traditions have everything to do with food...sad really.
My mother started the tradition that we have chex mix for breakfast while watching the Macy's Day Parade. Mom decided that since chex mix is made with cereal, it qualifies as breakfast.
We still follow this tradition and the girls love it.
LOVE Chloe the Pilgrim girl, good job! :) I would have to say our biggest tradition is PIE and I mean LOTS of it... we make several different kinds and almost everyone has a taste of each: pumpkin, apple, pecan, German chocolate cream, mixed berry, coconut cream, and my favorite, apple-cranberry!
Every year, family members bring new ones to try and old favorites by request... we have so much fun.
Our favorite Thanksgiving tradition is going around the table and sharing what we're thankful for this year.
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My very favorite tradition? Just the whole thing, food, family, fun- it's the perfect holiday. Our family has an unusual tradition started by my great grandmother to get the kids out of the way- she would make goodie bags and hide them. One for all the kids, and they were well hidden outside. That's it- all kids outside to find your bags! The big boys bags are usually hidden in impossible to reach places- like the roof. It's great fun and I look forward to it whenever we get to have Thanksgiving with my extended family.
Turning on the Christmas carols for the first time all season (it's simply not allowed before then) lighting candles, turning down the lights and sipping hot chocolate whilst watching A Child's Christmas In Wales, the movie version of Dylan Thomas' famous poem.
What a fun giveaway :) My favorite tradition is simply being together as a family! Especially as we all get older and more spread out. But I also love to watch football after eating so much I can't move! ~ Brittany Preston
We don't do a lot for Thanksgiving since we moved away from family, but I try to make a simple turkey dinner every year. :)
Just getting together as a family.
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We travel to a cabin in the woods with my mother-in-law and just enjoy each other's company.
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y favorite Thanksgiving tradition is just being able to get together with a bunch of family.
spending time with family
Your daughter is addddorable! love it!!!
My favorite tradition is seeing everyone again in the family and having a thanksgiving picnic on my grandma's floor because we dont all fit at any dining table hehe
Seriously ... Pumpkin Pie Pop Tarts??? I might actually have to try one! ha ha
My fave tradition for Thanksgiving doesn't really exist because every year we are somewhere different with different people. And maybe that's what I love about, well that, and the food. However, I look forward to the day when I am grandma and I get to make the food and the traditions.
Although, we might be starting one this year ... my kids and their cousins have been practicing together to form a little singing group and their first performance will be at Thanksgiving dinner. I can't wait!
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Chloe is just adorable!
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is the three kernels of corn we put above each placesetting. After dinner we all say three things we're most grateful for...and it turns into a big, weepy testimony meeting, which I love. How often do you get that personal and spiritual with your extended family? It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without that kind of sharing.
My favorite thanksgiving tradition is going around the table and saying what we are greatful for. And we don't let anyone say a duplicate answer so if you last, of 30 people, you better be thinkin! :)
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My kids get together with their cousins and put on plays, which have gotten more elaborate every year. I love hanging out visiting with relatives!
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is getting together with family, from the oldest to the youngest the room is really crowded but we all love it. ladybug.suebee@gmail.com
After we eat and clean up we all go for a walk and then come back and play a few board games
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I'm on a roll....why stop now.
melissamcconkie@gmail.com
WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THANKSGIVING IS ALL THE FOOD! WE NEVER HAVE "FAMILY DINNERS" SO THIS IS ALWAYS A NICE CHANGE! kytah00@yahoo.com
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The only tradition we have is everyone stays home on thanksgiving and we eat and watch movies and just make it a day to be thankful that we have each other.
brewerchickey78@yahoo.com
Get together and have dinner around the large table is my favorite tradition.
tcarolinep at gmail dot com
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It used to be go to my gram but after she passed we now join together at my aunts in the afternoon and watch sports while the kids play
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Our favorite family Thanksgiving tradition is to invite someone or a family from church for dinner.
My favorite tradition involve certain foods that we only make & eat for Thanksgiving. It makes it all that more special.
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My favorite tradition is letting the kids play upstairs later on Thanksgiving night and me and my MIL sit back and giggle over wine!
One of our family traditions is going to my mother's house, eating, watching football and napping.
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Our tradition is sitting in the table eating food.
My favorite tradition is saying the blessing before dinner. It just feels different before a holiday dinner for some reason.
won2xx at gmail dot com
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My mom and sister and I go shopping on black friday, just the three of us.
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My favorite thing would be the wishbone! We would always make a wish with the turkey's wishbone after dinner was over.
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My favorite is having an "orphans dinner" where you invite everyone you know who doesn't have any place to go for t-day dinner.
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is dressing up a little and having a wonderful meal together :)
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My Aunt loves to be in charge of all of the cooking every Thanksgiving. So the rest of us love to let her be in charge, and we just go eat :0)
up till now it was to spend it at my moms...this year we are having chinese then the day sfter a more traditional meal...
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Our tradition is to help with dinner at a half way house. Having a late dinner at home for ourselves
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We all meet here, and all people who have no where to go comes to.
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The family football game with the kids! I love watching it!
My mom's dressing! She makes the best dressing in the world and it just isn't Thanksgiving without it!
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We take a drive in my husband's classic car to the lake and then come home to dinner
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Seems like the holidays are different each year. But we always have the traditional turkey dinner and watch football!
Overall, we have a very traditional Thanksgiving dinner with one exception...for a first course, my mom always makes her Matzo ball soup....a favorite in our family!
Our tradition is to just gather around with some family, eat wonderful food, and be able to enjoy each other's company.
Favorite thing is the family getting together and sharing in the preparation of the dinner. Love it.
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We wont really being following any traditions this year, all the other family is doing their own thing so my husband, daughter and I will just have Thanksgiving here :)
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My favorite tradition, Is after eating the great food. We all gather up and go look at the xmas lights in town
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I tweeted on twitter
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its a tie between my moms apple pie and her squash haters casserole
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I always liked that family always traveled to get together for Thanksgiving even though everyone lives in different states. Unfortunately, that hasn't been happening that much of late. Between the economy and gas prices, gatherings are much smaller, with only a few visitors traveling to any particular home.
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I tweeted
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For thirty plus years a sour cream pound cake has been at every Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We all enjoy the food of course, but the main thing is the fellowship of just being together.
Having a wonderful dinner together with my family. We always enjoy having pumpkin pie & pecan pie.
Our traditions are very simple. We just hang out with family. And we love it!
I try to shun traditions and mix it up each year. This year we are hitting the local parade at the crack of dawn.
My favorite is just having dinner and spending the day together, and thanking God for all we have.
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Favorite tradition: I make a pie for every person in the family. They all pick their favorite. They start fretting about their decision weeks in advance. :)
And Cloe the pilgrim girl is adorable.
You really should have more pilgrims. That one is awfully cute. :)
And yo-yo with the hat. :)
I just love asking each member of the family what they most want to eat and then making it!
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Wow thats a tough question for me, after 30 yrs together I'd have thought we would have developed some kind of tradition but when I try to think of one cant really come up with anything other than cooking specific foods at holiday time, and I always do all the cooking and clean up while everyone else just relaxes and watches tv, I make all their favorite foods on holidays and that includes homemade Cheesecake its everyone's favorite desert but other than the food there isnt much of a tradition going on, We do spend the day together and thats important I think, this year we are having a friend over for dinner who became widowed earlier this year which is much to early in her life so she will be here and we are going to have a great time, eating, laughing, and eating some more, Thanks for the great giveaway
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Our family tradition is the Homemade stuffing in the bird and eating late, because my guys go hunting. Not too great of a tradition but with him not working hopefully he will bring home a deer. Then we just watch television and chill.
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My favorite thanksgiving tradition is taking a nap after the big meal. :D
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Our favorite Thanksgiving tradition is the Family Circus. All seven of the grandchildren participate and Grandma writes the script. We have circus wagons (boxes on wagons painted red and yellow) with animals (stuffed from Grandma's many trips to Good Will). We have strong ladies, animal tamers, clowns - you name we have it. One of my grandmothers died before I was born and the other lived far away, so I don't have many memories of them. I am thankful that our girls will have beautiful memories of Grandma.
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is going shopping with my aunt on the monday before and having a lunch date!
Thanks!
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I hate to be a USA cliche, LOL, but I love the fact that we watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Thanksgiving morning while cooking!
Angie
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I wish we had a family tradition, but we are all so scattered across the country, and the older folks are all gone now.
I really enjoy the fact that my wife and I stay home and don't travel. It is usually just the two of us or a few friends and NO family! LOL
Scott
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Sweet Potato Casserole and Black Friday Madness! :)
We have family game night after Thanksgiving dinner.
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We always rent some great movies to watch after dinner!
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Eating yummy food and talking about all that we are thankful for the year prior.
I also look forward to the Christmas name drawing.
Lara-Chloe was amazing! What a cute little Actor she is! It's in the genes.
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is having dinner with our family. Thanks for the contest! codisweepstakes2 (@) gmail(dot)com
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we put up the christmas tree for tradition
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We enjoy making mini turkeys out of butter cookies, a chocolate creme and candy corn. You assemble it all with chocolate frosting, letting one cookie be the base, one (with a trimmed "flat" side) the upright tail, the chocolate is the body, and the candy corn on top as the head. We have done it for years, and enjoy delivering them to friends, teachers, and using them at each place at the table.
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Being together with my family and sharing everything we are thankful for. Also, feeding the poor who is less fortunate than us making us able to fathom how lucky we really are. :)
By the way my email address is Adelle.Tetreault@gmail.com
Our favorite tradition is having homemade sausage and sauerkraut in addition to turkey for Thanksgiving..my grandmother who is from Poland also makes her homemade pierogies
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Fave tradition, kicking of the Holiday season, first by seeing Santa and spending time together as a family- then putting our tree up and getting a new ornament. Love it! So many things, but these are a few!
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My favorite tradition is completely forgoing any and all dietary restrictions. We eat very healthy all year round, so when the holidays come around we give ourselves license to eat what we want on Christmas and Thanksgiving.
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