My wife wanted us to start celebrating Thanksgiving yearly - I think we started last year or the year before. We are still planning what we will have for dinner this Thanksgiving, but with rising food prices almost daily in this country we will not be limiting it to traditional, but we are prepared to improvise for other unique dishes.
We have a tablecloth that we write on year after year. It is our tablecloth that we use for our Thanksgiving Dinner. We give everyone who is at our Thanksgiving a permanent marker and let them write on the tablecloth what they are thankful for, their name, and the date. It is fun to look at every year and remember what you were thankful for that year. Hope everyone has a fun Thanksgiving.
We are going to my brother's house who lives in Northern Arizona for Thanksgiving this year. He is a police officer and a major Dallas Cowboy Football fan so we will be very involved with football this year, which is great! Our 2 year old will take a bag of cheetos and sit on our bed and watch the football game for a long time. He loves football so it will be fun for him.
Rather off topic, but... In another thread, I wrote my 7th great grandparents story. They were Pilgrims, rode the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact, and even had a baby on the Mayflower. |
That is a wonderful Idea for thanksgiving. Maybe I will start a book in my family to write down what they are thankful for and then let them share it with the rest of the family as we gather around the table. I believe it will be interesting especially further down the road as we reflect back on some of the years and what has been written in the book.
I like the internet idea too JB.
I'm looking forward to the holidays this year, in spite of sadness and economic/political turmoil on all fronts. My mother has started to feel better physically, and she is talking about cooking for Thanksgiving! That alone is reason to celebrate.
I would love to have an online "gratitude" journal, JB.
We had a lovey Thanksgiving but JB has a very bad head cold so he hardly ate. He is feeling miserable, poor thing.
We created the traditional Thanksgiving tree last week and we all named and wrote down all the things we have been grateful for this year, with Seth being the number one blessing in our lives for 2008!
This reminds me that I have some apple pie to finish so let me go....