I will be away from my computer for a few days so I wanted to go ahead and upload a new background for Thanksgiving!! I will always remember going to grandma's house and seeing her large table ladened down with food of all kinds! Everyone in the family brought more than one dish so it was a meal to feed a queen and her court! The turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, candied yams with nuts on top (Aunt Brenda makes the best in the world!), peas, butterbeans, creamed corn, fried chicken, slaw, turnip greens, cabbage, rolls, cornbread, tea, koolaid, and the desserts!! YES!!! YUM!!! ALL of it was homemade!...coconut pie, coconut cake, pecan pie, red velvet cake, peach cobbler....The list can really go on...We had a large family and we made sure everyone was full before the day was over!
I did a give away last November for my daughters birthday but this year I want to do a Thanksgiving Give Away! Post and tell me your favorite Thanksgiving memories and I will put you into the giveaway. Go to your blog and post about it and come back and post with a link to that particular thread on your blog and your name will go in again. I wont check your blog unless you have come back and posted here with that link.
I will be picking up the prize this weekend. I will post a photo of the prize next week.
The drawing will take place on my birthday... Nov 21! This will give me a week to get your gift to you in time for Thanksgiving.
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My best Thanksgiving memory is from 1994 when I picked up my grandma and drove her to the place where we were all having Thanksgiving dinner. It was the first time I had picked her up for something like this and it was a pretty long car ride for her. My daughter was there and only 3 years old at the time. I was pregnant with my son who would be born in January. My grandma passed away in early December, never having seen my son. It was a good Thanksgiving because it was one of the last times I saw her. She asked me to name my son a certain name, and so I did end up giving him that name as a middle name - because she asked and it meant a lot to her. That's me Thanksgiving memory.
My Dad, and my sister both have birthdays in November, so every year my Mom made a Thanksgiving early on their birthdays, so we could spend Thanksgiving Day at my Grandmothers.
All my aunts and uncles and cousins were there, with tons of food and all us kids would go and play in the barn until time for dinner. It was the best!!
oh I have so many good thanks giving memories, I think last thanksgiving was a good/memorable one, but only because I made my first turkey....it was also the day I found out I was expecting my deer sweet Hazel
a more thanksgiving-y memory, My freshman year of college my parents didn't want to buy me a ticket home since Christmas break was just three weeks after that, its far to dangerous for me to drive by myself 600 miles, four passes, and all that ths time of year, and I wanted to work on some term papers and stuff. My friend, Aimee asnd I made our own dinner, with turkey breasts instead of the whole bird. We watched the Parade in her dorm room and did a little homework (we were both nerds, no wonder we are still best friends!) and then went to my dorm to cook. Each of us made two of our must have dishes (I made my familys dressing and fruit salad, she made her fruit salad and cresent rolls, then we made I think corn. We both ate ourselves silly cooking and eating the meal we made that we crawled on top of the pool table and laied there daydreaming for a while before going back to her room (after of course cleaning up) and watchign movies!
I always enjoy the baking of the pies each Thanksgiving. It's also fun to see the kids hovering around in the kitchen trying to sneak a piece of food, even now that they are mostly all grown up.
My best Thanksgiving memory was when I gave bone marrow to a little girl and found out right before Thanksgiving that it had saved her life, It meant so much to me, and it was wonderful to know that I had helped somone.That Thanksgiving was very special!
Micki
Awwww, here we don't celebrate thanksgiving!So I have no memories of that and unfortunately I haven't been to the USA around thanksgiving.But I have with one christmas.
I will post it on my blog anyway and hope you will get many visitors!!
Greetings from your dutch friend Stempelientje.
I was just looking at some pics on my computer the other day when I opened the ones from Thanksgiving 2oo7. It really cracked me up to see the faces of my 2 youngest grandson tasting some new to them foods. It was their first Thanksgiving dinner. They sure did love the sweet potatoes!! Even the other two loved my cooking then. These past few weeks I've got the pleasure of cooking their dinner and over heard Katelyn asking her mom why they were having yucky stuff for supper lately. Guess they don't appreciate having all those vegetables on their plate. Guess I had better fix them Turkey pizza or tacos for Thanksgiving this year if I expect any of them to eat it.
Last year has some great memories for me too.
well i dont have a specific one but i always remember going to grandmas and eating at the kids table and it was always a great time with a ton of family and just good times. then i remember being really excited the first time i got to sit at the grown ups table and the whole time i wished i was sitting at the kids table in the kitchen lol
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