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THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS SHARED BY GRANDPARENTS

Traditions are defined as  the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.  Our Thanksgiving traditions are created from memories and gatherings of people sharing their blessings. Thanksgiving traditions

When I was growing up, I remember that my mother cooked and baked for days preparing foods for Thanksgiving.  I believe that I can still feel the warmth in our home and experience  the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen.  One of the Thanksgiving traditions our family observed was that everyone came to our house to eat.  This included grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends.  Continue reading THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS SHARED BY GRANDPARENTS

THANKSGIVING FUN WITH THE FAMILY 2015

This year my North Carolina family was able to come to our house for a few days over Thanksgiving.   My husband came home from his deer camp for the day.  We had the traditional Thanksgiving dinner  followed by a lot of activities.

The weather was very nice so I took the opportunity to do some outside Christmas decorating on the Friday after Thanksgiving.  The boys (age 3 and 6) wanted to help me.  We needed to take down the fall decorations first so that kept them busy for a while.  The 3 year old wanted to get it done quickly, so he decided that he could do it by himself.thanksgiving, fall decorationsfall decorations, thanksgivingfall decorations, thanksgiving
 Whoops!!! They were a little heavy.
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THANKSGIVING LEFTOVER IDEAS FOR 2

Thanksgiving dinner is over and the food was delicious. If you fixed a downsized meal you may not have a lot leftover, but why not enjoy the food that  you do have. A colorful, light salad that tastes so refreshing after a heavy Thanksgiving dinner. Great way to use leftover turkey.thanksgiving, leftovers, cobb salad 

The Caribbean-Turkey Cobb salad is a refreshing, light salad that is a total escape from the heavy Thanksgiving foods.  This recipe makes 1 salad so you can adjust to make the number you want by how much turkey is leftover.

 
 

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GRANDPARENTS SHARE THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS

Thanksgiving traditions are created from memories.  

Traditions are defined as  the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.  I was thinking of my Thanksgiving  traditions and asked a few of my friends to tell me about theirs.

When I was growing up I remember that my mother cooked and baked for days preparing foods for Thanksgiving.  I believe that I can still feel the warmth in our home and experience  the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen.  Everyone came to our house to eat including grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends.  My father and the men in our family always liked to deer hunt so they were out in the morning doing that.  After dinner we drew names for our Christmas gift exchange.

When I was in high school we moved to the country and for several years the same tradition continued.  My mother decided to try  hunting and enjoyed it so she started going out herself.  Over the years as my brother, sister and I  grew up and had our own families we were not always able to be together.

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