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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Thanksgiving Poll
I'm starting to feel in the holiday spirit and looking forward to eating my fill on Thanksgiving Day guilt free, so here's a friendly poll to along with the holidays:
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food?
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions?
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting?
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving?
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood?
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Re: Thanksgiving Poll
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? homemade gravy and mashed potatoes or Green Bean Casserole
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? Not really. I do usually put up my Christmas decorations on Thanksgiving weekend.
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? On Thanksgiving day we are staying local and going to my MIL's for dinner. I'm bringing what she dubs the "American" thanksgiving food of turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce we'll MIL and my SILs cook more Spanish dishes (rice & beans, pork, plantain salad, etc.). The day after Thanksgiving I'm going up to MA to visit my grandmother with some leftovers and my aunt and uncle as well.
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? At MIL's there is 12-14 of us, at my Aunt's usually 6-8, and just 3 of us at my grandmother's.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? Looking at the Toys R us big toy book while my mom, grandmother, and aunt cooked in the kitchen...the smells were devine and dreaming about the toys I might get for Christmas was fun.
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Green Bean Casserole, Cheesy Potato Casserole & Butternut Squash! Couldn't just pick one..
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? We do themes, such as Pajama Day where obviously everyone dresses in their finest night time clothing, There was a year we did ultra formal,etc. We always play board games/group games, and we always play a game of football.
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? We are supposed to be going to my mothers house, which is four doors down in my condo complex, LOL. My MIL will be joining us at my mom's. We have issues with my father and my FIL so we won't be seeing them at all!
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? Usually about 25, we have a large family.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? Playing football with the boys cause I was the only girl
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Green Bean Casserole, Cheesy Potato Casserole & Butternut Squash! Couldn't just pick one..
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? We do themes, such as Pajama Day where obviously everyone dresses in their finest night time clothing, There was a year we did ultra formal,etc. We always play board games/group games, and we always play a game of football.
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? We are supposed to be going to my mothers house, which is four doors down in my condo complex, LOL. My MIL will be joining us at my mom's. We have issues with my father and my FIL so we won't be seeing them at all!
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? Usually about 25, we have a large family.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? Playing football with the boys cause I was the only girl
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? baked ziti, lasagna, and my mom's sweetpotato and apple caserole....plus ALLLLLLLLLLL the desserts!
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? with my parents, they always make pigs in a blanket, nothing anything real set in stone though
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? the usual 2 day event that all holidays are- both sets of parents live in another state, but relatively close to each other, so one set gets the holiday, then the other set gets the day before or the day after.
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? somewhere between 8 and 12
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? yup, the year my aunt asked my mom to "pass" her a sweet potato. my mom pproceeded to send it down the table Hail Mary Football style, my aunt ducked, and it fwonked into the wall behind it and then slid down the wall leaving an orange streak before it landed in a sweet potato lump on the floor, where my aunts 2 Bichon's proceeded to eat it!
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Greenbean casserole and fudge
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? It is the only holiday we do with my dad's family
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? Going to my parents. Two years ago we did the "his family meet mine" at Thanksgiving ..and now its a tradition for the ILs to all come.
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? ummm...40? My mom is insane.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? My cousins all knit and they'd have contests to see who could finish something first. They all still bringing their knitting. (3 sisters)
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What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Pumpkin Pie
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? Not really
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? The In-Laws are going to my parents house.
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? This year it's 6...gotta love a small family, that's DH&I and all the Parents.....we're both only children.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? Not really, we never had big dinners, it was always just the 3 of us.....now 6.
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What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? My grandmother's Uneeda Bisquit stuffing and my Mom's sweet potatoes with marshmellows on top
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? Not really, unless you count watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade every year.
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? We will be traveling to Cape Cod to celebrate Thanksgiving with DH's Aunt and family. The day after Thanksgiving we will drive back to CT to see my family.
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? It varies from year to year, but usually around 15-20, give or take.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? Watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade with my family before helping cook dinner.
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Green Bean Casserole and Pumpkin Pie
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? We don't do dinner until about 5:00 and then between dinner and pie we head to the movies
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? This year my parents and sister will be heading from Ohio to CT to enjoy the holiday with us.
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? In my family its always small, just the 5 of us (mom, dad, DH, and my sister). When we are with DH's family its really big, 20 - 25 people.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? Nothing that specifically stands out. I always love to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Mashed potatoes and stuffing
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions?
Not really.
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? We are going to my cousin's house
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? Ugg like 40- no joke
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? Going to the movies with my cousins to see Beethoven
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Probably Stuffing or homemade cranberry sauce!
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? Not really, divorced parents made traditions hard to establish, but the "kids table" really sticks out in my mind!
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? After the football game, I will be going to my grandparents, DH is working so I will only stop at my father's
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? There isn't really a 'usual'..... anywhere from 5-10!!!
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? Watching Its a Wonderful Life while bouncing back and forth to the kitchen to watch my grandmother cook and my dad carve
Hope everyone's holiday is wonderful, can't believe its only weeks away!
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What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Pie! But I definitely pig out on everything else as well.
Does your family share any special Thanksgiving traditions? Not really. On the day after Thanksgiving though DH's family goes to pick out their Christmas tree.
Will you be traveling for Thanksgiving/staying home/hopping from in-laws to your family/ or hosting? Unfortunately for the first year since we started dating, we're splitting up for Thanksgiving. I have to work the day after Thanksgiving, so I'm staying here with my family and DH is going to Boston to be with his family.
How many people usually dine with you on Thanksgiving? About 12-16 typically.
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving memory from your childhood? After we were all too full to even move, us kids (cousins) would sit at the Dining Room table with all of the store flyers and circle stuff for our moms and grandmother who go shopping on Black Friday.