Is your Thanksgiving going to be good or not?
953038
Everyday is a good day, Thanksgiving is like every weekend dinner on Sunday after church in my home. All the family come together. God bless****
783555
Try to make the best out of a situation you know is not going to be pleasant. Your the better person. However, don't take any shit either, stand up for yourself if it should get out of control.\nWish you a "Happy Thanksgiving Day".\nGod bless
725825
It's about giving Thanks for the things we have. To be cherful and be together with family and friends. To share what we have with other's who do not have so much. It's about the feeling you get when you help some one out of troubles. It's when you feel the love that comes from spreading the cheers. That is what Thanksgiving is all about.
732519
Lighten up, Link, I suspect Happy Holidays is pretty appropriate up until Thanksgiving - after Thanksgiving, I'm expecting a big, fat\n\nM E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S  ! ! !\n\nBy the way - you have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
738720
Thanksgiving for me is a 2-3 day marathon of cooking and baking for my friends and family(my door is open to everyone on Thanksgiving ,I tell every one to bring their Appite) It is a time for rembering those long ago Thanksgivings when me and my father would kick Mom out of the kitchen and cook up a feast, just the two of us.....now that he has passed on I carry on our tradition by making Feast for all who come to my door\nIt's a time of rembering with great fondness my grandfather who loved this time of year, with all the leaves showing their color...it's a reminder to take an extra moment to be Thankful (and be aware) of the beauty of Nature around us.\nIt's a time to enjoy and re-connect /catch up with  with family and friends, some who we haven't seen in a while.\n....and the left overs Wow...sometimes I have a lot!...I make up dinner plates and freeze some of them for quick microwave dinners  and I give some  to neighbors (or co-workers) who may not have anyone... and were too shy to come over to my house.....and of course all who come get something to take home even if it's only a pie or some baked goods.
790158
This is one of those holidays that seems to tear my families (my fathers side and my mothers side) apart.  My father is Cherokee and my mother is *mostly* Welsh.  Many of the Christians in her family talk about how wonderful the 1st Thanksgiving was, while my fathers family talk about the murder that happened.\n\nPearly Gator, please read up.  Or watch the History Channel.  The truth is out on this one... be thankful, for whatever it is you think you should be thankful for... but at least be honest about it.
858535
Oh yes, I'll be having turkey.  In fact there is one very nervous turkey in my back yard, picketing!!! (sign says, "Pork, the other white meat.)\n\nI like turkey, but if it is dry it can taste pretty yucky.\n\nGood luck.  If you were coming to my house I'd give you your pepperoni pizza and eat the turkey myself.\n\nPeace.
743093
Right after Thanksgiving
941350
It depends on how close the couple is...I would take it to the heart in my case but that is because my boyfriend and I consider each other family and his family is my family and my family is his family...the point is, we are all very close so yeah, if he said that it would hurt me.  We are having 2 thanksgivings this year, we are not cooking at our house but my side of the family is having turkey dinner around 4 or 5 and his side of the family is having it around 8...so we are going to starve all day and eat at both families houses.  A little off the subject but all the talk of thanksgiving got me thinking about it, sorry.
926639
Depends on where I'm at, if I'm at my place or my parents' place, or if I'm at my aunt and uncle's place.\n\nAt my uncle's, I think we get there in time to go to Thanksgiving services(my uncle's a Lutheran minister), then on Thanksgiving itself, it's the usual football and feast thing. Although I can't recall if they have the turkey, as it's been quite a few years since we've been there for Thanksgiving. Prayers are said, of course, heh, that's to be expected considering my uncle's profession.\n\nAt my parents' place, there's no going to service. I'm not even sure if the church my parents attend even has one. I think around here, some do, some don't. I think their church may just have the Thanksgiving service the Sunday before. Uncle's church is bigger, probably why they have the service. Parents' church is smaller, maybe that's the difference.\n\nOh well, when I'm at their place, there's no services at any rate. Usually prepare the turkey and feast, the guys of the family watch football or play video games on the computer, and we sometimes watch the parades. Macy's has kinda gone downhill for me since I was a kid, so sometimes we watch at my mom's, sometimes not. Pretty simple. Prayers are said at the meal, as well as saying what we're thankful for.\n\nMy place, there's no services(I'm an atheist). I'm up at 5 or so to get up, dressed, and work on the bird. Hubby-to-be and I aren't fond of football, so we don't watch that. Might watch a parade if any of them are any good, otherwise he flips channels or puts a movie in while I'm working on the food.\n\nFor the feast, no prayers are said(I allow individual people to pray, but I don't do group prayers like at my uncle's or parents'). I tend to put more importance on what we're grateful for than WHO we're thanking. I also tend to pass out and go to sleep once the meal's done. I think Dad and the guys end up watching football.\n\nSometimes we do family games like play cards or dominoes during football or the afternoon when we're not all so stuffed and sleepy.\n\nThanksgiving for us is usually more about the food and family, though the more religious members of my family tend to put the religious angle into it. I don't do that personally. Like I said, I tend to put more focus on family, food, and being grateful that we're even still alive from one year to the next, rather than religion.\n\nGood luck on your report! :)
809915
Congratulations and best wishes to you! Yes, I was able to count my blessings this Thanksgiving as well despite the fact that I lost my father just 3 months ago. Although I am single and have no children, I was able to spend Thanksgiving with my mom, two brothers and thier wives and my 3 nieces and nephew.
968673
Thanksgiving Day is traditionally a day when family gather with friends and strangers.  We celebrate what we are thankful for and mostly for the freedom that our forefathers fought so hard for. It is a tradition in my family that after the blessing on the food, everyone gets to say 1 thing they are thankful for and they can't repeat a response that another has already made.  We start with the youngest and move to the oldest. It builds awareness in our family of what we are grateful for.
935363
Well after all the fall housekeeping is done, the silver polished and the good stuff brought out and the table is set and the shopping is done...then there is the baking, the peeling, mashing, the stuffing to make.  Next comes cleaning the bird, stuffing and baking it.  All the while you feed people snaks, keep the kids quiet and busy, set the table and call everyone  for the carving of the turkey.  As you have struggled  to get everything on the table hot and all at oncet...the men don't show up because it is the last quarter of the football game and the score is 12-12 and they are in a state of high anxiety and won't move from the set and yell to you ...."wait a minute...it's the last quarter and the score is tied" and you stand there with the done bird on the tray and think ...why do I put myself through this year in and year out?    When it is all done and over with and everyone has stuffed themselves with pumpkin and apple pie, had a walk,  and about to take a nap...you realize the only one that has been kind and thankful for you and all your effort is the faithful family dog.\n\nSo my dear, if you have never done this annual tradition, don't start.  Book a table at a nearby resturant and save yourself a lot of work and enjoy the day off.  Don't forget the doggy bag for the family pet.
729766
no I stayed in bed\nnice and warm HA HA\nI have gotten upset this year with all the commercialism of a holiday, and it has started several weeks ago, they forgot all about Thanksgiving and went right from Halloween to Christmas SELLING, to see how high they can get their bottom line, sell no matter how they do it, they are even extending people credit so they can charge more than before, as long as they just buy, and buy...hey what ever happened to the holiday itself?\nOH well maybe it is just me...\nno I stayed in bed...\nthank you for asking\n\nsmile\ngood luck
950138
Thanksgiving is about Thanking God for the GIFT of having those who care about us and are willing to give us a helpful hand (and share the bounty of the harvest) when we need it most.
848477
I like the white meat. If you cook the turkey right, the white meat will not be dry.\nI just ate my turkey and it was delicious! Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving!
942885
Thanksgiving is not the time or place to discuss unpleasant things which all of us as human beings are guilty of at one historical time or another. Get some perspective, people. No one is saying that untoward things did not occur, but like the accidents on the six o'clock news, it does not need to be discussed when eating a nice dinner in commemoration of the Harvest and safe passage to a new land. No the truth does not hurt, it is just that there is a time and place for everything.