Aside from thanksgiving dinner

[jessica31876]

what are your thanksgiving traditions? We usually go out an hour or so after we eat to a park and walk off some of the food. Not sure if my husband is up to it this year because of the accident on Sunday. If not we will probably just go rent a movie. We have a doctors appt on Friday for x-rays so no shopping or anything

[Mandy]

We always watch the Macy's parade, have dinner and afterward nap. Then that evening we'll usually watch movies.

[kscwgirl]

we watch the Macy's parade and football. That evening we watch the Plaza Christmas lights come on and play cards after dinner. Friday we shop. At 4 am. :)

[Sharon Kay]

When it's HIS side of the family:
...they eat as fast as they can (dessert included) and everyone takes off...fil falls asleep in front of the tv (and you can't change the channel) and mil works crosswords...and I become extremely B-O-R-E-D...so I will be bringing my brand new laptop!...that will keep me busy.

When it is my side of the family....we eat...taking our time...then we clean up and play some board games or cards and watch QVC (my mom's addiction)...then we have dessert and play some more games and maybe watch a movie.

My sides is so much more fun!

[jessica31876]

Friday we shop. At 4 am. :)

Very brave!! I wont be up til probably 9:00 LOL

[Sharon Kay]

we watch the Macy's parade and football. That evening we watch the Plaza Christmas lights come on and play cards after dinner. Friday we shop. At 4 am. :)

Yikes! 4am...won't see me out in those crowds!

Plaza Christmas lights...wouldn't be the JC Nichols Plaza lights would it?

[jessica31876]

that is why we started making our own dinner at home because I could not stand going to my husbands family's house and I dont really have much family left. We invited a few people who do not have family nearby to come over but they probably wont.

[jessica31876]

I do not think I've ever watched the parade. We dont usually have the tv on most of the dayWe always watch the Macy's parade, have dinner and afterward nap. Then that evening we'll usually watch movies.

[AnnieBananie]

We always have Thanksgiving at my mom's... she and my grandma make a huge meal, we watch us some football or whatever, play whatever game my grandma's currently addicted to (she got us hooked on Phase 10 last year), then we eat, clean up, and then DH and I leave to go hunting through Sunday night and the kids stay with my mumma... bless her heart.

[jessica31876]

Ohhh fun!! You hunting for deer? I have been craving some but nobody in my husbands family has gotten one this year. My son almost had one last year but his uncle was in the way. We are looking a t alarge piece of property that we can buy for 4000 dollars here locally that is loaded with deer (and hogs but my hubby hates hog meat)

We always have Thanksgiving at my mom's... she and my grandma make a huge meal, we watch us some football or whatever, play whatever game my grandma's currently addicted to (she got us hooked on Phase 10 last year), then we eat, clean up, and then DH and I leave to go hunting through Sunday night and the kids stay with my mumma... bless her heart.

[Sharon Kay]

We always have Thanksgiving at my mom's... she and my grandma make a huge meal, we watch us some football or whatever, play whatever game my grandma's currently addicted to (she got us hooked on Phase 10 last year), then we eat, clean up, and then DH and I leave to go hunting through Sunday night and the kids stay with my mumma... bless her heart.

Phase 10 is fun...hey we haven't played that in months! We'll have to pull it back out...thanks for the reminder!

[kscwgirl]

Yikes! 4am...won't see me out in those crowds!

Plaza Christmas lights...wouldn't be the JC Nichols Plaza lights would it?

Yes. But on the tv. I'm not brave enough for those crowds, not even for David Cook. :D

[AnnieBananie]

Ohhh fun!! You hunting for deer? I have been craving some but nobody in my husbands family has gotten one this year. My son almost had one last year but his uncle was in the way. We are looking a t alarge piece of property that we can buy for 4000 dollars here locally that is loaded with deer (and hogs but my hubby hates hog meat)
Yep, whitetail. DH hunted last weekend and only got a very small buck-- he was the only one in the camp who got anything. We've been looking for some land ourselves (in WI)... prices are so great, why not!? :)

[jessica31876]

eventually we plan on selling our property here in Orlando and moving to West Virginia. I want a large piece of land in the middle of nowhere!!Yep, whitetail. DH hunted last weekend and only got a very small buck-- he was the only one in the camp who got anything. We've been looking for some land ourselves (in WI)... prices are so great, why not!? :)

[AnnieBananie]

Oh man, DH and I swoooon for land in the middle of nowhere! We thought it would be "fun" to live smack in the middle of a major city... yeah... not so much. *snort*

[jessica31876]

Im not really in the middle of Orlando. Actually Orlando is just the closest city to me but it is not far enough out for me. I want to be somewhere where the closest neighbor could be a mile away. Oh man, DH and I swoooon for land in the middle of nowhere! We thought it would be "fun" to live smack in the middle of a major city... yeah... not so much. *snort*

[Mandy]

I live out in the middle of nowhere in a very small town. The population is around 2000 now I think. Land here is EXPENSIVE though. You used to be able to get it for $1k per acre. The going rate now is about three to seven times that much. :mad:

[jessica31876]

we bought an acre where we live (well my husband did a little before I met him) for less then 20,000 and now just down the road there is a place going for 65000 for about the same amount of land. It went all the way up to about 150,000-200,000 for an acre of land with a mobile home on it at one time where I liveI live out in the middle of nowhere in a very small town. The population is around 2000 now I think. Land here is EXPENSIVE though. You used to be able to get it for $1k per acre. The going rate now is about three to seven times that much. :mad:

[Darcy Baldwin]

Since this will be the first time we've been home for T-day in years (we usually went to stay with my grandmother and spent the evening bored.to.death), we'll begin to create our own!

The boys are going to snuggle in bed and watch the lame Macy's parade (sorry - I just hate it anymore...the stuff in front of the store is lame to me - I miss the real parade), while I finish up preparations. Then we'll head to the nursing home to take my grandmother lunch and visit We are going to my Dad's for the afternoon to hang and eat and play a bit. Then we'll probably come home, play a few games of Battleship (DS#1 got it for his bday), and I'll take down Thanksgiving/fall decorations as we watch a movie together.

[lizzyfizzy]

hold my new niece.
cook.
watch parade.
hold my new niece again.
cook some more.
eat.
yep. hold niece.
clean up.
watch some football.
play some games.
and again w/the niece.
watch a movie.

that's about it.

[amystoffel]

It's all about football and guitar hero here!!! We got the new one, it should be pretty sweet!

[jessica31876]

Lizzy you should have lots of photo ops tomorrow with your new niece...its been so long since we have had a new baby in either my or my husbands family. I love having a little baby around. They are soooooo cute!!

[lizzyfizzy]

Lizzy you should have lots of photo ops tomorrow with your new niece...its been so long since we have had a new baby in either my or my husbands family. I love having a little baby around. They are soooooo cute!!

i know. i intend to take a ton of photos and show you guys! she is sooooo gorgeous!!!

[jessica31876]

nobody here watches football...well except my weirdo daughter LOL. I dont know how she got so interested because I dont like sports and neither does my husband. She will be at her boyfriends family's dinner sometime after we eat here so she will probably watch some football there.

[juliemarie]

I live out in the middle of nowhere in a very small town. The population is around 2000 now I think. Land here is EXPENSIVE though. You used to be able to get it for $1k per acre. The going rate now is about three to seven times that much. :mad:

That's just what its like here too Mandy. In 2001 land was around $1,000 an acre, and now its $7,000-$20,000 an acre. Most of the county is a 5 acre minimum unless you are inside the city limits. But the hunting is wonderful, although we hunt on the national forest land sometimes.

[jennpage]

This year we will have dinner at noon at my dad's. We will pig out then loaf around and visit. Then we have dinner at in-laws in the evening. Other than that nothing special. Will go to the Lighted parade the day after. Will not go into the crowds to shop that day though lol.

[Stacey42]

Since we are home this year, there are no actual traditions apart from the "lecture on proper restaurant behavior" before we go to dinner, but the kids hear that one every time we go out to eat. :)

At my folks we watch the macy's parade and football and take a long walk after an early dinner & then come back and then there is the traditional watching of the first Christmas special,usually the Grinch on DVD. we'llprobably do that one this year as well.

I live in the middle of nowhere.:) 25 acres, with 'beautiful view' and hardwood timber that can be sold is $350,000. 9 acres with stream and some hardwood & old cemetary on property is $230,000. One house 220sq ft house on 5 acres is also $250,000.

Land in west virginia isn't too bad, so much of it is sheer hillside & so hard to build on (not that that has ever stopped anyone in my family)

[jessica31876]

My best friend goes up to West Virginia every now and then. Her dad lives in Chelyan (I think that is how it is spelled). Im thinking it is near Charleston. She always talks about how beautiful it is and I have other friends who lived there and moved here to Orlando and they say the same thing. I know alot of people like visiting Orlando but living here is awful. I want to live somewhere like Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia or Virginia

[nesser1981]

Well, I'm working, but DH will watch football.

[jessica31876]

awww that kinda sucks :-( hope it isnt to long of a night for youWell, I'm working, but DH will watch football.