Our Thanksgiving celebration started days before the Thanksgiving Day, with visiting with friends and family, lots of grocery shopping, cooking and eating. I didn’t cook much, just helped out in the kitchen a little bit. Our Thanksgiving meal is mostly deep fried turkey, ham and lots of American food shared by family. I am so glad that it didn’t turn out as stressful as most celebrations tend to be – at least not for me !

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2009 Thanksgiving Day, From left: Gussie Dog, Grandma Sally, Me, Grandpa Leonard, Daddy, Matthew, Uncle Les, Uncle Tom and Aunt Collen

We’ve been back in ALabama for a couple of days now. It is good to be home… but today, hubby’s off to work, already missed lunch and had been busy welcoming the coming back cadets! Yes (sigh), vacation’s over! We are back officially!

Matthew Pirate, Photo taken Nov 23, 2009 by Grandma Sally, Edits by Daddy

We have been chillin’ here in Florida since Saturday! Just busy going about the Thanksgiving rush – cooking, shopping, socializing and more! Matthew is having a blast monopolizing all the attention from everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving, all! Be safe and have fun!

We have been here in Florida for the Thanksgiving Holiday since Sunday. Hubby had a week long vacation from the school and as planned, we travelled from Alabama to Florida to be with his parents and relatives for Thanksgiving.

It has been good days so far, preparing for that big feast. I really had nothing much to do since we will be guest at his Aunt Rosie’s Thanksgiving feast, and Mother-IL and Bro-IL Tom have pretty much planned out as to what to bring to the feast.

So we are here just chilling and sampling Tom’s baking and cooking delights, which are very appetizing! So the pounds hubby happily lost from his job in Alabama, he will most probably gain them back a week of being here. As for me and Matthew, I am just happy to gain as much pounds as we could.

“It’s not so much what’s on the table that matters, as what’s on the chair.”
– W.S. Gilbert

This Thanksgiving, I look forward to good food and good company.

We will be going to Florida for thanksgiving. This will be our first thanksgiving with hubby’s family. I look forward experiencing the Thanksgiving tradition they have. And also just relaxing. It will be a week long vacation for us.

I hope there isn’t anyone in Florida who dreads us coming over.

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Our Thanksgiving feast is composed of deep fried turkey, stuffing, sourthern greens and pumpkin pie. Yummy! Happy Thanksgiving! 

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I only knew about Thanksgiving when I got married. It’s a US Holiday that starts on the 4th Thursday of November until the weekend. Family gathers to have a meal together. There’s a whole history behind this, which I have learned from the history channel.

My husband has always taken the lead in the thanksgiving meal preparation. He cooks the turkey, prepares the potatoes and whatever we have planned for. Last year, he deep fried the whole turkey. We enjoyed the deep fried turkey better than the baked one. So he is doing it again! Also, we will be having pumpkin pie for the first time. I’ve never eaten a pumpkin pie before so this should be interesting.

We usually have the thanksgiving meal at about pass lunch time. After that, there’ll be so much turkey leftover,, that we will be eating everyday for the rest of weeks that follow. I always tell my husband to get a small turkey since it’s just primarily me and him consuming it. But he always comes home with the biggest turkey he can find. In time, I have managed to be creative in the preparation of turkey leftovers. I have tried adding it to spaghetti, to making adobo out of it, and there’s always turkey-sandwich option.

What’s another exciting thing about Thanksgiving, other than the usual 4-day holiday, is that during the Thanksgiving Weekend, we start decorating for Christmas. We start putting up the Christmas tree and all the trimmings. In the Philippines, our family starts decorating for Christmas in September. In the past year of our marriage, I have been very insistent to follow that tradition but my husband wouldn’t let me. He wouldn’t let me decorate for Christmas in September when Halloween and Thanksgiving is still coming. It does make sense though! What would the Halloween-costumed Trick-r-Treaters think when they come to our house that’s already in Christmas mood?! They’ll think we’re strange Christmas freaks!

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