Thanksgiving Traditions

[ChristineCMoore]

Do you do anything special besides eat a big meal, watch football or put up your Christmas stuff on Thanksgiving?

My family sets one chair aside, drapes a flag over it and when we have family over seas or serving during wartime we add their name to the table setting. There is something about an empty chair at a family table that makes giving thanks for the everyday things so much easier.

[Jessica2627]

That is a wonderful tradition !!

We don't do too much, just make sure we say what we are thankful for a we say our grace holding hands as a family.
We watch football and take naps and then do a leftover plate later in the day or evening before bed. We stayed stuffed !!!

[coachwife2004]

My hubby and daughters and I go volunteer thanksgiving morning until around 1200 we've been doing it for three years now we love it then our whole family gets together and eat then we go play dodge ball outside there's just something great about trying to jump around and being tooooo full : ) we've been doing that for almost 10 years now good stuff

[Kristie]

Where do you volunteer?? Back home different families in our ministry would cook double or more and we would deliver to shut ins at noon. It was sooo much fun! I would love to find something here to do before our meal.

[dcsmommy]

We always watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and It's a Wonderful Life. We also each have to tell what were thankful for. I would love to take my children to volenteer somewhere. I think they would get a lot out of that.

[Tawnya]

Around 20 years ago when my parents were still married we lived around San Antonio. My dad would go to the base and pick up three trainees in bootcamp who couldn't go home for Thanksgiving. They only let people who live 20 miles away go with their families. If we ever live in S.A. again I would love to pick up this tradition. I invited the in-laws for Thanksgiving this year (before I knew I was prego) I've been so sick I told my husband it will probably be his first year cooking. I'm defiantly gonna give it a good try though.

[Avasmommy]

Originally Posted by ChristineCMoore

Do you do anything special besides eat a big meal, watch football or put up your Christmas stuff on Thanksgiving?

My family sets one chair aside, drapes a flag over it and when we have family over seas or serving during wartime we add their name to the table setting. There is something about an empty chair at a family table that makes giving thanks for the everyday things so much easier.

Oh my gosh Christine that made me cry! But it's such a good idea and so sweet. I am very fortunate this year because it is the very first year in a LONG time that we have our whole family at home. And by that I mean nobody in my family is deployed this holiday season . We don't do much, I cook and Scott watches football. He tries to help, but it just doesn't work out, he's not a very good cook.

[ChristineCMoore]

Originally Posted by Avasmommy

Oh my gosh Christine that made me cry! But it's such a good idea and so sweet.

Lauren, the worst part is the prayer. My dad is a poet and probably should have been a preacher or politician. He's never said grace without the whold room saying Amen either choked up or bawling. I'm almost tempted to ask Tommy to say it this year.