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Hey All!
It’s hard to believe that the holidays are already here! I love this time of year as it allows me to spend time with my family. As Thanksgiving quickly approaches, I often reflect on how we like to spend our Thanksgiving.
It’s always been a family tradition to wake up and watch all our favorite Holiday Shows on television. We then like to start cooking early as we like to start eating early. We are one of those families that likes to eat all day on Thanksgiving. It’s the one day where we make dishes that we don’t have often. We don’t make the traditional Thanksgiving foods. We make pastelillos aka empanadas and…
Arros con gandules and often times we make Pernil aka roasted pork thigh. We do make Turkey, but it’s not seasoned in a traditional way. We put olives, garlic, and sazon to season our turkey. We can’t forget that we also make Pan De Muerto and cheesecakes.
Besides the food, seeing all the family we don’t get to see year round is one of the best parts of Thanksgiving. I love having a house that is filled with laughter and chatter over our family recipes. It’s nice to have that love and support in our house for the holiday.
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We spend Thanksgiving with friends and famiy eating and watchin football.
I put my turkey on to cook in the morning and go to work. When I come home my house smells wonderful and then I make my side dishes. The kids and husband watch the parade and football and christmas movies all day and snack on meats and cheeses. We are thousands of miles away from our loved ones but we make the day special by serving all the favorite family dishes from when my husband and I were growing up.
I spend Thanks giving day cooking spending time with family and enjoying good food with family .
i spend it at home
We usually spend the holidays at home.
We spend thanksgiving with both sides of our family. we go to my grandparents- so thankful they are still here- first, and then to my husbands moms house.
My whole family comes to my house for Thanksgiving
We like to gather around the table and say what we are thankful for.
We spend it with my sisters family – good food and board games at night!
We get to spend thanksgiving with both families sice they live within walking distance! 🙂
We go to a big family dinner and then later to a bonfire!
We usually switch off every other year so we can spend Thanksgiving with my fiance’s family and mine.
Having dinner with my family.
I usually spend Thanksgiving with my sister and her family!
I usually go to my brother’s house for Thanksgiving.
I usually spend Thanksgiving with family at home. Last year, however, we changed things up and went to Miami for the holiday and ate a turkey dinner at Boston Market. This year, we will just be eating at home and watching some football!
We are spending Thanksgiving at home together as a family
We usually spend Thanksgiving at home with my family.
We spend Thanksgiving at home.
We spend it with parents or in-laws
Is a very nice tradition as we gather with friends and family and each one gives a special thank you, we had dinner and listen to music very much!
I’m the cook for my family and my parents. I love cooking the biggest turkey I can and after eating love reading the circulars for all the stores for black Friday. Happy Holidays.
I will be cooking for my husband, kids and grandkids. I cant wait!
i plan on going to my grandmas
WE either go home to my parents or spend it at our house.
We spend it at my aunts house.
I spend it at my parents house.
I will be spending Thanksgiving at home alone.
good food, family and parades
I Spend Thanksgiving At Home Cooking And Hosting My Family.
we either travel to my parents or eat at my in-laws
I spend it at home with my family. We have a big meal, which my daughter does all the cooking and usually watch a lot of tv.
usually cook dinner and spend it with family then we go hit the stores for some shopping!!!!
We either spend Thanksgiving with my dad’s side of the family or my husband’s parents & siblings. Who we are with greatly impacts what we do on Thanksgiving, but there is often some kind of game being played.
We spend it cooking, eating and watching football with family.
We always spend Thanksgiving gathered around the table with family and friends…usually at our home 🙂
I spend it with my parents and mom’s side of the family.
I plan on spending it with my family at my parents house!
Have to work this year.
were hosting it with family and friends this year!
I watch the road race and spend the afternoon with family.
We visit immediate family members and spend the evening with my family at my aunt’s where the kids eat and play together we watch the remainder of football, play board games and plan for black friday
Usually we stay home and we cook together and spend time with friends and family and eat together
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at my aunts house we have the whole family over and we eat and talk the whole time
Lots of cooking and good conversation 🙂
spend it with family
I spend it at home and my in laws too watching tv
It will be spent at home with my family.
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i spend it with my family.
We go to my hubby’s aunts house with all the extended family for a big meal.
Like most families we are scattered across the country, so the extent of celebrating with many of our relatives is not much more than mailing them a present or card and maybe a phone call on Christmas day. For the members of the family that live in the area we all celebrate individually with our households and then get together at one of our homes later in the day for a traditional family meal.
i usually Having dinner with my family
Dinner with my family. Thats amazing party. Dance,drinks and to much food.
We spend Thanksgiving at home.
I always spend my Thanksgiving cooking! Even on the one year that my oldest daughter decided she was going to host Thanksgiving, she asked if I could come over to her house and stay Wednesday night to “help” – I STILL did all of the cooking (except for the two dishes she normally cooks and brings over on Thanksgiving) – But then I get to have my family and friends over and see how much they appreciate the yumminess, and we’re all so happy to be together – it’s all worth it!
We always go to my Grandparent’s house.
It depends on the year. This year I had my thanksgiving dinner with just my husband and some Mexican food. It was fun.
my family and I all got together at our parents house and enjoyed good food and family conversation
We always spend with family. And after dinner everybody takes a nap. 🙂
We spent thanksgiving this year with my extended family, sometimes we spend it with my husband’s family. Either way it’s always nice to get together.
Usually spending it eating way too much and lots of talking and laughter with family.