Getting to know us ? 11/25/08

[ddavis860]

So, are there any holiday traditions for this holiday at your house?

 

[ddavis860]

We watch movies all day while I cook. We aren't big into sports. Then we eat in the "dining room", which only happens for special dinners. They rest of the year it's just a room to dust...maybe

This year I'm trying a few new dishes though, so it isn't going to be same ol' same ol'

 

[PrincessNancy96]

We have traditions that I don't even think the kids realize are traditions..
1. Mommy cooks all day!
2. Kids set the table
3. Mommy runs DH out of the kitchen routinely trying to taste test all my food! Hello, I cook and I cook well!
4. We watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
5. We watch FOOTBALL or any sport really
6. Usually eat about 1pm (than leftovers for dinner whenever you fix your plate; mommy goes off duty @ 2:30pm when the dishwasher is running!)
7. play a game in the evening w/ the kids

I'm sure there are some more...I just love this time because it's just us and we tend to have a lot of conversations and quality time for one another!!!

 

[YoYoAurora]

Oh yes!

After Thanksgiving dinner is over, it's officially Christmas music time!

My father wouldn't allow us to play Christmas music before the end of Thanksgiving dinner. Dad's gone now, but I keep up his tradition!

My older sister and I used to have the Christmas music ready to go and raced to see who got to turn it on first once Dad gave the go ahead!

In the afternoon, we'll settle down with a movie and enjoy a relaxing afternoon. I'm thinking maybe we'll watch Fantasia!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Cracker Barrel, baby.

We let them do the cooking and cleaning up.
The boys will watch sports & MIL and I will put up Christmas trees. Yes trees. She usually has 4, some times 6. Inside.

 

[SusieStone]

Before I sold my parents house, we would make grapevine wreaths after lunch on Thanksgiving day. My dad would have already to cut the vines to burn them in the ditch. I would then get cypress and holly with berries to decorate the wreaths.

What I have been doing for the past 6 years is gone so this year we are at WDW.

Do you think I can come up with some stuff next year and tell Stone that is the way we have always done it?

I always put up the Christmas trees on Black Friday. This year I won't be there.

 

[rlovew]

Our traditions have changed since we are never at the same place. Most years we watch football after dinner but it depends on who we are with. Even as a child our traditions depended on where we were living. Some years we ate with family but not the years we lived in Hawaii. It is probably one of the only holidays we didn't have much of any traditions for- other than mom making the pies. But I don't live close enough to get her pies now.

Rebecca

 

[WDWMom]

We have a few traditions for thanksgiving. My parents always come across the state to visit us. This year my older brother (44) is coming too. His ex has his son and had nowhere else to go.

DH and DS13 always watch the Lions while mom and I cook. DD and DS12 hangout where ever. Grandpa plays on the computer. Mom and I will track the BF ads and decide on where to go and what time in the morning. The evening is usually playing euchre (a card game) or watching TV.

 

[bearbear]

I have to cook and that is pretty much the tradition.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I have to cook and that is pretty much the tradition.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

I forget DH and the kids have to climb in the attic to grab the 25 totes of Christmas stuff too... We put our trees up that weekend... This is the first weekend in years (3 travel team basketball boys) that we have the weekend off... so I can decorate for 2 whole days... so I can do it in spurts when I get frustrated on scrapping...

 

[DisneyIsTerrific]

Where we are at Thanksgiving usually changes. For years we would spend Thanksgiving week at WDW and go to Disney Quest on Thanksgiving Day and have pizza for dinner. But DH got burnt out on spending that much time at WDW so this will be our 2nd year of not going at Thanksgiving. Last year we were at MIL's for dinner, but this year we are staying home and having dinner with just the 3 of us. We just had the ENTIRE family here a week ago for DS's birthday.

The only traditions we have that we still do is that we spend the day together as a family and we (mainly me) put up the Christmas decorations this weekend.

I'm sure football watching will be happening and we'll play board games and watch movies as well. It'll be a fun time to make new traditions.

 

[Raenstoirm]

We have many and yet none.

90% of the extended family gather at the largest house that is centrally located (was my house when I was a kid (then we moved to a town house), Aunt's house (then she moved so she is no longer in the middle), cousin's house the last few years)

We do Buffet style. All the food is set up in one room (usually the dining room) and we use one long table in the largest room in the house (usually the den)

We watch the parade, or at least the end to see Santa

We play board games as a huge unit till all hours

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

We watch the Parade and then Miracle on 34th street, Black and White edition, eat, and scour the black friday ads to see if there is anything we want.

 

[aroyer]

Ours is hodge podge, but some are becoming more of a tradition than others. We will lunch with DH's family and then head to my parents house. Then there is THE game for us- University of Texas vs. Texas A&M, that will be watched- everyone watches. Then the newest tradition is midnight shopping at the outlet malls- its so much fun! The kids sleep at my parents house and those that want to shop, SHOP!!

 

[JohnsonsLoveDisney]

Our's varies as well. We always do pies the day before. So i need to get the kitchen picked up. It all depends on who we are spending it with, my moms side or my dads side. we usually have dinner with one and dessert with the other. But the last few years we havent with my moms side.

So this year, im hosting my parents, sisters, family friends etc. Dh and my dad will watch football, DH likes the Lions, its the one game of the year he watches, he's a Redwings fan but we dont get a lot of hockey on this coast. The girls usually watch the parade. then after dinner we watch Polar Express, look through the ads and figure out where we are going and what time DH has to get up to stand in line for me.

 

[New England Eeyore]

No traditions since it seems every year is different. We used to go to my grandparents' or whichever of my aunts was hosting but we haven't done that for the past couple of years since DH has to work every major holiday now. Last year I brought DH dinner in the middle of his split shift, but this year he actually has a straight shift that is over at a reasonable hour so we're having dinner at home with my Dad. I decided since I don't even like turkey, and the men don't care we'd just make what we like instead. We're having steak tips.

Well - one tradition - since we've been in this house we always put up the Christmas tree sometime during Thanksgiving weekend. This year it's Sunday.