Stuff I Do
Nov
17
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Some families make it a tradition to watch the Thanksgiving Day parades. Others watch football or get a game going in the backyard. My family makes videos. Not just regular videos. Silly videos. We’ve elevated the personal home movie to a level of hilarity – well, we think they’re hilarious – that rivals anything we could watch on television.
It always begins innocently.
“We should make Amy a birthday video. We’re all here…we haven’t seen her for a while. It’d be better than a card.”
“Yeah. Hey, wouldn’t it be fun to make it a rap video?”
And that’s how it starts.
One year, we were inspired by Julia’s extreme sock monkey play and spent nearly the entire holiday making a “sockumentary” about my sock monkey-making hobby (with Jules starring as my product development department).
So, our plan for this post was to show you how to make the baked apple recipe we cooked up last week. Then Julia suggested that we make it a cooking show (starring her, of course). A few wouldn’t-it-be-funny-ifs later, we made this.
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Our Thanksgiving Family Traditions are a bit whack! LOL
The men (dad and brother) are always in Guernsey county at the cabin hunting and getting ready for gun season, so they are not home on Thanksgiving day.
The women (mom, grandma, me -and sometimes aunt, etc) are home in Akron, Ohio (when I lived there I was there too)….and we go shopping on Thanksgiving…Big Lots, Walgreens, Kmart, whatever is open. Then we go to Dennys……always Dennys…..every year. That’s where we have the turkey dinner on thanksgiving day.
Weird I know but that’s how we roll.
That was adorable and my birthday video will go down in history as one of the greatest birthday gifts OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!
Getting together at the grandparents.
We take a trip to a cabin the woods and just relax…no hustle, no bustle.
we watch the Macy’s parade on tv
WE EAT! That’s about it… oh, and then take a long nap. Is laziness considered a tradition?
Our Thanksgiving day tradition is to get together with as much family as we can sometimes that means two dinners in one day but the eating is not the important thing its the family
After we stuff overselves with food we all go for a walk and then come back and play some board games.
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The only tradition that we have is to spend the whole day together as a family. We eat, watch tv, games and things like that. We are just thankful to have each other and take the whole day to show it.
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Get together and have dinner around the large table is my favorite tradition.
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We watch the macy’s day parade every thanksgiving and football and then go to my aunts
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Fancy china and the Macy’s Parade when we’re with my family, a zillion guests and football when we’re with my husband’s family. We should probably make some of our own, huh?
I tweeted too – http://twitter.com/#!/triplezmom/status/5670609547694081
Also, I forgot to mention how awesome this video is.
We will invite a different family we know from church every year and have them over for dinner.
Every year, after dinner, we play Bingo with our 10 Grandchildren. All year we collect dollar store bargins, free samples, etc. and save for the prizes. The Grandchildren have fun playing Bingo, and are excited over the prizes they win.
We eat, then we look at the ads for Black Friday and decide who is going where and getting what for whom, then we eat pie, then we take a nap, then we eat more, then we go home and go to bed. It really is a lot of gluttony!
My family and I go to my Mom’s house, eat the Thanksgiving feast, watch football and all end up napping all over the house. Trust me, with over over 15 people taking turkey naps all over the house, it isn’t always easy to find a good nap place.
Sitting on the table eating.
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My mom and sister and I go shopping on black friday, just the 3 of us.
Honestly, there is too much change going on to really have any traditions. Each year seems to be different.
Oh….just thought of one. Always read the big paper with all the sales for the following day!
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We like to play a few games of cards after dinner with our whole family. Then we have our dessert!
We like to make all the traditional foods…turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, mashed taters, etc and invite over everyone we know who doesn’t have anywhere else to go for the holiday.
Since our family has gotten so tiny in recent years, it’s just about some yummy food and a good movie!
It’s about dressing up just a little and enjoying good food and each other
Our tradition is to go to my Aunt’s house. She loves to cook, and loves being in charge of the Thanksgiving meal. So we just talk and hang out there, and eat great food.
i have seen several vids for this promo so far..
your little”sneak” cracked me up..it was me!
we are doing chinese..don’t ask..then day after a traditional meal.
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Our tradition is to help with dinner at a half way house. Having a late dinner at home for ourselves
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We all meet at my house and anyone who has no where to go comes too.
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The men all go hunting early in the morning and dinner is ready when they get back. Then we all sit around rubbing our bellies.
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Hubby and I go for a ride in the classic car to the lake
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We get together with both sides of the family over the weekend for dinner and football. Love the time off and family time.
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Overall, we have a very traditional Thanksgiving dinner with one exception…for a first course, my mom always makes her Matzo ball soup….a favorite in our family!
Our tradition is to just gather around with some family, eat wonderful food, and be able to enjoy each other’s company.
We get together early for breakfast then everyone hops in to help start the dinner. Love it!
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We used to always do a huge Thanksgiving meal with all the family but since my Dad passed away we don’t do that much, this year we’ll just have a nice little dinner at home
Our Thanksgiving tradition, every year me and my sister take turns hosting the Dinner at our homes. Where all the family show up to enjoy great food. Generally after the dinner we gather up and go look at Christmas light.
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Meeting my husband at the oven several times a day to kiss him on his cheek. Love Thanksgiving!
i would say turkey but one year we had ham..gasp i know..my mom will never live it down..but we always have her apple pie and squash haters casserole
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I think our family Thanksgiving traditions are fairly typical. What family is able to get together (not so easy with everyone living in different states) gathers for a large dinner of turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce. Since travel has always been involved, usually there’s a sleepover where the adults talk late into the night and the children run around and have a blast (typically later into the night than the parents prefer).
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Foods are the traditions that hang on no matter how many moves we have made. A pork roast, cornbread dressing, sweet potatoes, asparagus, glazed carrots, sweet and sour cabbage, and A sour cream pound cake, cheesecake or a pie, and some kind of cookies or bars. Lots of good conversation, and the packing up of leftovers to be sent home with all who come.
Eating delicious food, hanging out together, watching a good movie or football, and sometimes we start decorating the Christmas tree.
We don’t really have a tradition. We hang out with family. And just enjoy the time.
Having a wonderful dinner and enjoying spending time with my family. We always like having pumpkin pie & pecan pie as our traditional desserts.
Our family just gets together for a day of fun and eating and just loving to be together.
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Just lots of food and chatting with the family!
Family tradition = everyone from all over meets at Grandma’s house for a Vietnamese-American Thanksgiving Picnic on the living room floor. That means someone brings turkey, Dad makes the honey Ham, grandma’s chopping a roast pork, while everyone else preps the sides.
Can’t believe Thanksgiving is only a few days away! Yikes!
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We always wake up to hot apple/rasberry/ blueberry turnovers fresh from the oven( usually around 9 am).. turn the tv on and watch the parade over at my moms, at this point we would then help stuff celery and dates with peanut butter and cream cheese, put finishing touches on pies and sides, and I always got to put the marshmellows on top of the sweet potatoes.. and always snuck a few french onions from the greenbean casserole.. after family arrived (usually grandpa and aunts and uncles) and a few strays that didn’t have anywhere to go for the holiday, we’d pile onto the 3 tables and say a blessing for our meal and then eat eat and eat… and then we’d all pile into the living room to watch old home videos of from when we (my sisters and I ) were kids and show them to my kids now and then we watch Santa Claus the movie (not the Tim Allen version) to signify the beginning of the new holiday that was coming up..
When I was younger and growing up our thanksgiving tradition was that my father would be gone deer hunting and wouldn’t be home with us having Thanksgiving dinner and he never spent one thanksgiving with the family. And now that I am older and married with my own family we dont really have a tradition other than food related things, I do all the thanksgiving cooking & cleaning up, we always have; Turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, corn, rolls & homemade cheesecake for desert. I think the most important thing is that we are all together on Thanksgiving, my husband doesnt hunt so I dont have to worry that he is off in the woods shooting deer like my father was. Thanks for the great giveaway
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My family always gets together and cooks the Thanksgiving diner, then enjoy the day together, all stuffed and ready for much needed naps.
Your daughter is adorable and your husband is a good sport!
I usually cook the Thanksgiving meal for my family every year and we watch the parade while I prepare the meal. After our dinner my husband and son watch the football games.
This year I may actually get a chance to go to the Macy’s Day Parade in Manhattan, as we had our celebration early this year! I can’t wait!
For the past 20 plus years we have always take our nephews bowling on Thanksgiving night. Now that they are adult men we thought they would want to skip the bowling but they still would rather going bowling with us old timers than going out with their friends.
Our family gets together and we have the traditional Thanksgiving meal that we all work together to create and we spend time talking and working a Christmas puzzle together.
No real tradition here, I have to work, before I leave I will stuff Tom and put him in the oven, (remember Tom is the turkey) My husband and son will leave to go hunting, I will come home from work, finish fixing the rest of the meal, my daughter and grandaughter will come over, she will help me finish, then when the guys come home from hunting we will eat, clean up the mess and just veg out doing absolutely nothing.
Our main tradition is that everyone gets to request what food they want – even if we end up with five different kinds of potatoes!
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Our traditions are pretty simple – share a great meal and hang out playing games and talking.
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My aunt and I go shopping the Monday before and have lunch while we are out.
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Thanksgiving has always been a time for us to spend time with family..not always at the same house.. not always the same family members but one thing that is a ALWAYS the same..We cook great food, have great conversations and we NEVER forget to go around the table and tell what we are most thankful for during the year. I love to hear what everyone has to say.
I hate to be a USA cliche, LOL, but I love the fact that we watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Thanksgiving morning while cooking!
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Unfortunately, we no longer have any family traditions for Thanksgiving. Our family has scattered across the country, the older folks are all gone now, and sadly, we just all do our own thing.
I really enjoy the fact that my wife and I stay home and don’t travel. It is usually just the two of us or a few friends and NO family! LOL
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We have family game night after eating Thanksgiving dinner.
We always rent some great movies to watch in the evening!
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My family’s Thanksgiving tradition is getting together for a big Thanksgiving feast. Thanks for the contest! codisweepstakes2 (@) gmail(dot)com
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The men in the family get together in the morning to play their football “Turkey Bowl” while all the women stay home in the kitchen trying to get dinner together.
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Our family’s traditions begin Thanksgiving Eve, by kicking off the holiday season- seeing Santa at Bass Pro, eating out and going to see Christmas lights. Then we spend Thanksgiving at home or my MIL’s and watch football! Fun, fun! Very cute!
We play football if we are hosting at my home. If we are at my in-laws, we go swimming (they have an indoor pool) and use the sauna afterwards.
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Our only consistent tradition is for the whole family to be together on Thanksgiving. We alternate who will be hosting and new members bring new recipes and traditions.
We love to make pies together before dinner! suelee1998 @ gmail.com
We always go on a walk between dinner & dessert. (Some years are colder than others, but we bundle up).
Thanks for the contest.
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