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Thanksgiving Poll
As we approach Thanksgiving this week... thought it would be nice to hear what everyone is doing!
1) How many days do you have off this week?
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving?
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else?
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend?
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday?
6) name 5 things you thankful for.
Re: Thanksgiving Poll
I'll start!
1) How many days do you have off this week? 3, I used a vacation day for Wednesday, and our office is Closed Thursday and Friday.
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? Our first married Thanksgiving! We will be sharing Noon time meal with my side of the family with my Aunt and Uncle and my Grandparents. Then around 5-6pm we go to my in laws and my sil and have an evening meal with them.
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else? Yes
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? DH took off Black Friday with me this year, and we will be organizing our house and getting our Christmas decorations down and set up and whatever else comes our way this weekend. Hopefully relax!
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? Nothing in particular for us yet other than our meals and then DH will be starting a tradition this year of putting up our Christmas decorations Black Friday and that weekend (as long as he continues to take off that Friday)
6) name 5 things you thankful for. My husband, our family, our friends, our house, our jobs and plenty more things of course!
1) How many days do you have off this week? 2 days
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? Dinner at my mom?s and dessert at Dh?s aunt?s
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else? Yes but I am also making baked ziti since DH doesn?t like turkey
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? Possible a little shopping Friday morning but we are planning on painting our kitchen and tiling a backsplash
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? My family takes a short hike around the lake after dinner
6) name 5 things you thankful for. My son, my husband, our loving families, our good health and that we both have jobs in this touch economic time.
Good poll for a Monday afternoon
1) How many days do you have off this week? 2 - Thursday & Friday
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? At Home with DH. I'm cooking dinner for us and having my step-mom & step-sister over. I wanted one low-key holiday without all the normal chaos!
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else? Yep - it wouldn't be thanksgiving to me without the bird!
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? Putting up my x-mas decorations. I have some home projects that I want to finish up too.
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? No traditions for us.
6) name 5 things you thankful for. DH, a JOB!, our home, good health, friends & family.
1) How many days do you have off this week?
2 1/2, we're closing at noon on wednesday
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving?
dinner at DH's grandma's
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else?
you bet! though my aunt and uncle always make homemade ravioli, but we won't be there this year
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend?
driving to my parents', my mom is having our family's thanksgiving on saturday
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday?
going through the black friday ads at dh's grandma's
6) name 5 things you thankful for.
my husband, our family, our friends, our health, our jobs
1) How many days do you have off this week? 2, just Thursday and Friday
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? At home in PA
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else? Turkey and all of the wonderful sides
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? Friday my mom is cooking and we might go cut down their Christmas tree on Saturday.
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? I love how for the dinner at my mom's house we all help cook and spend time together.
6) name 5 things you thankful for. DH, my family, my house and all of the work we have put into it, my health, and making progress with my research
1) How many days do you have off this week? Technically one. I only get Thanksgiving Day off but I had an extra Vacation day to take so I'm taking Friday off as well (something I NEVER do due to the OT we usually get around Thanksgiving)
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? at my house with my husband and mom.
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else? traditional turkey. Wouldn't have it any other way
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? Just hanging around the house and reading, spending time with my mom. Possibly shopping some but I don't need to.
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? Don't really have any.
6) name 5 things you thankful for. My husband, My cat, my family, my job and my books. Yup, I'm thankful for my books!
1) half day on Weds, Thurs, Fri and the following Mon and Tues (I'm a teacher and thank God for hunting season starting next week!! haha)
2) Thanksgiving will be with DH's family, we do Thanksgiving with my family Saturday because of my Dad's work schedule
3) traditional turkey
4) We'll be with my parents and sister for the weekend including Black Friday.
5) It's our first Thanksgiving married, so none right now, but I'm hoping we can find some time Thursday afternoon/Friday morning to decorate for Christmas.
6) DH, house, job, family/friends and our kitty
1. 3 days! Love it! (Work only gives us 1, but I took 2 comp days)
2. Spending it with DH, SIL, and SIL's BF (DH is working 6a-6p, so it'll be a late one!) Making dinner and watching the parade/other holiday movies with SIL
3. Traditional Turkey!
4. MIL and other SIL are coming down to hang out with SIL #1 and I and decorate/bake cookies
5. Watching the parade while eating cinnamon rolls and drinking hot chocolate?
6. That DH & I have such great jobs, that DH graduated the police academy, that we have our families, that we've got eachother and our dogs
, that I've got great friends, and a nice warm roof over my head!
Great Poll!
1) How many days do you have off this week? Just Thursday and Friday
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? I make breakfast for my immediate family (8 of us). We spend dinner at my SIL parent's house
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else? Turkey and all the trimmings. The only bad thing about not eating at my parent's house is no left overs
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? Friday I am having breakfast with 2 friends from high school. Saturday is my annual outlet shopping trip with my mom.
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? Making breakfast for the family. Saturday my mom and I always have a shopping trip to the Lancaster outlets.
6) name 5 things you thankful for. My family, friends, pets, good health, and education.
1) How many days do you have off this week?
I am off tonight, I will be working 7pm-7am Tuesday & Wednesday & Friday night. (It's my "holiday off" and best case scenario I will be leaving work at 730 am Thanksgiving morning. Technically I am "off" but I have to work 7.5 hours that day... blah!)
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? Working until 730 am, waking up DH and making the 2.5 hour drive to Clinton County to see our families & eat at 3 different houses. (In other words exhausted! haha. Nothing like being up for a minimum of 36 hours and having 3 helpings of turkey... tryptophan and lack of sleep are not a good combo!)
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else?
DH's father and step mother do traditional, my family does traditional, DH's mother and her parents do like a meat platter thing which is fine because by the time we get to their house more food is the last thing on our minds!
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend?
If I am not delirious, DH and I will hit up the outlets in Lancaster at midnight on Thursday and then I will catch up on sleep until I go into work at 7 pm Friday night. We are heading to Baltimore this weekend for the Steelers vs Ravens (go Steelers!!!)
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday?
We don't really have any Thanksgiving traditions. I used to like the holiday but I haven't enjoyed it since I became an RN. I find it exhausting and wish I didn't have to stay up all day to do the family thing but then again last year I had to work Wed & Thurs night and we couldn't go home and that sucked too...
6) name 5 things you thankful for.
DH is up and walking again! (stupid broken ankle), spending time with my aunt this past weekend, DH & I have good jobs and are hoping to buy a house this year, family and friends I will get to see this holiday season, I have a pile of books to read whenever I find the time!
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? we will be at my aunt and uncles with 40 of their closest friends and family........
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else? traditional
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? BF will be spent visiting my BIL, the weekend will be spent relaxing and doing work
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? many of the traditions we've done are over since there aren't any young kids anymore
6) name 5 things you thankful for.
my husband, my family, my dogs, my friends, my husband's job
1) How many days do you have off this week? 2.5 or so (leaving early sometime tomorrow depending on what I have left to do)
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? going out in Shippensburg for a bar crawl Wed night, lunch at ILs then hanging out with friends all afternoon/evening at their "bar" (wood and cinder blocks in the garage set up as a bar - it's an awesome tradition and so much fun!)
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else? turkey and ham both places
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? all the girls go to some little shops in Chambersburg, Carlisle & Shippensburg to spend time together but avoid the rush
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? Wed night bar crawl (it's our closest group of friends so no matter how lame it might be, it's always so much fun - I missed it last year bc I was pg so I'm excited about this year) and turkey ball - which might not happen this year bc of rain (and I also missed last year
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6) name 5 things you thankful for. my husband, his new company and partners (just started 3 mos ago and everything is going very well so far), my wonderful baby, our health, that we have survived this terrible economy pretty unscathed.
1) How many days do you have off this week? 2 days
2) How are you spending your Thanksgiving? we are going to my mom's for dinner, then to the in-laws for desserts.
3) Do you have the traditional turkey dinner or something else?we do a traditional turkey dinner
4) How are you spending your Black Friday and Weekend? i might go shopping on Black Friday, not sure yet. Sunday we are going to my mom's for my brother's party before he leaves for boot camp.
5) What is a special tradition you have at the holiday? every year we go around the table and say what we are thankful for.
6) name 5 things you thankful for. my daughter, my husband, our family, our jobs, our health, and a lot more.
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