Saturday, November 14, 2009

Thankfulness


This week I would like each of you to discuss the following in a 3 to 5 sentence paragraph.

Thanksgiving is a family time, yet families celebrate in different ways just as families are different. Describe your family's traditions whether that means eating out or having a family gathering or traveling. Some families always watch a parade or a football game; some decorate for Christmas (not me!). Some attend a prayer service. How do you spend the day? How do you show your thankfulness?

46 comments:

  1. My famly terdition is to go to grandmamas house an hav a thanksgiving party ang then when its dark we do fireworks.

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  2. Me and my family send the whole weekend grandma's house. Then on thanks giving morning we go to Ensworth high school and play football. We call it the Turkey Bowl. Then we go back to my grandma's house and have a big feast. That is what I am thankful for.

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  3. My family and I always take turns going to Alabama or Kentucky.This year we are going to Kentucky for
    Thanksgiving.We always watch football games and Thanksgiving parades. We always talk about school.I love eating with my grandparents and my couins and say thanks.I love Thanksgiving.

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  4. 1. The first thing I do on Thanksgiving, is in the morning I go with my mom and in the living room I watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Then after the parade is over we get all the food prepared. We invite my brother,and my grandmother on my dad's side. Sometimes we go to my grandmother's in Knoxville and have dinner with them. This is how I spend my Thanksgiving!

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  5. My family and I usually go to my great aunt's house to celebrate Thanksgiving. Firt when we get there we say hi to eveyone and after that me, my brother, and my cousins go down to the playroom and play pool and play around in the woods outside. Once we get back inside we go up to the kitchen and say the prayer then we start getting our food. After we are done eating we go outside for pictures and to play a little more. Finally when it gets dark say goodbye to everyone and go home.

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  6. I go to the dinning room table and I eat our home cooked Thanksgiving dinner. Then we go around the table we always go clockwise. Then we say our blessings.

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  7. My family goes to my Grandaddy's house. We eat lunch about 2 pm. We eat turkey, ham, potatoes, mac-n-cheese, and many other things. Then we go outside and play football. We also like to eat a lot of desserts.

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  8. Our family does a lot of different things for Thanksgiving. If we celebrate with my Mom`s side of the family, we go to my great aunt`s house and visit with relatives that we don`t get to see that often. We stay there for the day. The food is so good there! It is fun seeing my cousins that I don`t get to see that much.

    If we celebrate with my Dad`s side of the family, we go to my grandfathers house in Gatlinburg and celebrate two things, my cousins birthday and Thanksgiving. We love to watch the new Chistmas movies that come out on Thanksgiving. This year, we are going to see A Christmas Carol. We cook a whole lot of food while we are there. Instead of waking up early like a lot of families do, we sleep in because our family loves to sleep.
    When we go home, we start decorating for Christmas. One of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving is how much food you get to eat. I love Thanksgiving so much!

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  9. Wow my post is long! :)

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  10. On thanksgiving my grandparents come to my house and then we all cook at my house. wile were cooking we watch the football game.Then after were done cooking we go outside and we play a football game ourselves. After we play the football game we sit down and eat.Then we decorate tne Cristmas tree and thats what we do for thanksgiving at my house.

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  11. My family goes over to my Grandma's house for Thanksgiving. My grandma cooks for like, three straight days! I eat like 20 lbs. of stuffing and turkey! Then,my mom and dad, Aunt Barbara and Uncle Stephen, grandad, all of my cousins and siblings[6 not including the baby:)],and Uncle Billy all go down the street to Forest Hills Church (right next to my grandmas house) and have a game of kickball (the kids always win!). Thats my favorite part of the day. Finally we go over to our family friends house, the Karshenas. I eat tons there too,so I go home and see the highlights of the football game. Such a busy day!

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  12. My family celebrates Thanksgiving by going to my aunt Cindy's house. We also celebrate by playing Guitar Hero, Bingo, and the Wii. Then we go to my dad's side of the family and we eat more turkey. My thankfulness is shown on Thanksgiving by saying prayers before we eat.

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  13. I am going to my cosins house this year. (Tallahasee FL)I am having Lunch this year I am so happy.We hang out,chat,and mess around,relly have fun.I get chess pie!!!!!!!!!!!

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  14. I spend my thanksgiving with my family.We all sit down and have one big meal,my mimi makes cornbread and a big turkey.After we eat, we go in the living room and talk.I look forward to thanksgiving every year.

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  15. I spend my thanksgiving being with family.The best thing about being with family is that you give thanks.At my family's thanks giving dinner its a tradition that we eat alot of turkey and dressing.I look forward to thanksgiving every year .

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  16. For Thanksgiving my family gets together at my house or my mom anut's house.Everyone talk for a while,then when everyone gets there we eat.After that all the play while the talk. They leave one by one and once the party is over.That is what my family does for Thanksgiving

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  17. For Thanksgiving every year we switch between South Caroilina and here. We watch the football game on Thanksgiving. Then if we are in South Carolina we go see Santa.

    We say a prayer then, we share how we are thankful for each other. Then, we dig in!!!! Then we spend the night then leave the next morning.

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  18. I celabrate Thanksgiving by going to a grandparents house.We like to watch the Macys Thanksgiving day parade.We also watch football.I love to eat turky,dressing and mashpotatoes.I also like to play video games with my uncle.That is how I spend Thanksgiving.

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  19. We spend our Thanksgiving is we watch a little bit of football and then we always watch Charley Brown Thanksgiving.My whole family comes over and we celibrate together.My Grandmother always makes huney ham and turkey.My great Grandmother make chicken casserole and banana pudding.YUM!I love Thanksgiving.

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  20. Well for Thanksgiving my family always goes to my Granny's house. My Granny makes the best turkey ever! We always swich channels from the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Titans football game. Before we eat we go around the table and say what we're thankfull for. That's my family Thanksgiving!

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  21. For Thanksgiving day I usually go to my grandparent's house on my Mom's side of the family. My grandmother always cooks the lunch. She is such a good cook! Of course we have turkey,but we also have rolls,dressing,corn,potatoes,and green beans. After that we watch the football game. Those are some things I'm thankful for on Thanksgiving day.

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  22. I will spend Thanksgiving Day with lots of family and friends. We will have a big meal and visit. My cousin will be home from Boston College so I am excited to see her! Friday, we will head to Maryville, TN to see my other Grandparents. We will help them decorate their tree and spend the weekend together. I am looking forward to the holiday!

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  23. My family hunts for turkey instead of buying the turkey. I always go to my mom`s parents` house first and then my dad`s parents house. The best part of it is we have a great time.

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  24. The way I celabrate my Thanksgiving is by meeting at my Grandmom's house.By that time we either wait till are family or friends get here or run some arens for my grandad.After evereyone shows up me and my cousins go outside and play until it's time for us to go in.When it's time to go inside we all setille down to eat.

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  25. The way I spend Thanksgiving is by going to my cousins house.Then we have chicken and turkey,mashpotatoes,mac and chese thats what we eat. Then we all go out side and take a picture.Then we play a game of football,then when we get dun we all have some desert.Then we all play some board gamesand whatch football.Then after a long day we all go home.

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  26. Here is what my family does on Thanksgiving if we don't go out of town.First, on Thanksgiving morning my sister and I like to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.Later that day,we go to my grandparents house.We always have yummy food such as ham,potato cassarole,corn,and lots more good food. That is what my family does on Thanksgiving.

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  27. Every year on Thanksgiving morning my Mom and I wake up at 5:00 to make the turkey stock. We always get the recipe from Rachel Ray's magizine. It takes five and a half hours just to make, but we make the other food the day before. After everyone comes we always watch Charlie Brown while we eat. After that we talk and laugh and talk about the blessings we have. That is what my family does on Thanksgiving.

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  28. Every morning on Thanksgiving my Mom and I watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Also,every year at Thanksgiving my whole family goes to my grandmother's house to eat.Sometimes other relitives (like my cousins) come over too. My Mmi makes the best food!I love her rolls. Also we sing a song that tells what we are thankful for. We say our blessing before we eat. Even after we are finished eating we still sit down and talk. My brother and I usally go and play with my cousins. My Mimi also already has her Christmas decorations up. So we get to enjoy the pretty lights. That's what my family and I do on Thanksgiving.

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  29. Every year we come to Athens,Alabama to celebrate thanksgiving. We eat turkey every year (of course). I chase my little sister and my little cousin (which is a girl) Riley. That's alot that we do but at the end, we all say THANK YOU!!!

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  30. Me and my family spend the hole weekend at my house with my moms family,and some with my dads family.When most of the guest arrive me and my Uncke Sam go out side to shoot some hoops and then we go play call of Dudy 4 for about 30 mintues.
    Then when its timy to eat we all come to the dinner room at bow for the pray.Then we eat for bout 45-1 hour then me and donald duck (unly Sammy)go to ythe base ment to shot some pool.That what i like to on my Thanksgiving!

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  31. The first thing I do on Thanksgiving is... I go in the living room in the morning to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade with my family.We usually do not decorate too much for Thanksgiving.All we do is hang around the house 'till it's time to go to my Grandma's house where we eat Thanksgiving dinner and give thanks.That is what Thanksgiving is about.

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  32. The first thing my family does on thanks giving is gather at my gandparent's house on my mom's side of the famly.I then I eat my first dinner. Then I meet every one on my dad's side of the family. Then we play a game of basketball. After that I eat my second dinner. Then all the kids play a huge game of hide and seek in the woods. Then I go home. Then when I'm gone all the adalts clean the house up toegether.

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  33. For my Thanksgiving I am going to go to Gatlinburg. My grandparents are also going with me. I am going to 'Apple Barn' to eat for Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving Day I don't know what my family and I are doing so I'm guessing we are going to shop and ride the sky lift. The way I show thankfulness is being thankful for my family and the stuff I have.

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  34. For Thanksgiving my moms side of the family comes to our house.Mom always has the parade on.If I feel like it i might help mom cook. We stuff ourselves then play the wii. Sometimes we go outside and play football.That night when everybody leaves we start getting down the Christmas decorations.

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  35. Well every thanksgiving I give a giftcard and a turkey to people that go to my church that are in need of one

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  36. Every thanksgiving we go to our aunts and uncles for lunch.And our grandparents for dinner.we have a huge feast and all of our relatives come over.It's really fun.That is what I am thankful for.

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  37. I do not have any Thanksgiving traditions, but this year I'm going to Florida with my dad to visit family.When we are there we will watch football, and eat lots of turkey. Every Thanksgivig I always make sure to eat a lot, even though I always regret it. I'm planning to have a great Thanksgiving!

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  38. My family gets together at my grandparents house.Some of my cousins come from Mississippi. My other cousin's family come From Arkansas. We sometimes eat the turky my grandfather or brother killed.

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  39. My family doesn't have any traditions for Thanksgiving, but most of the time we have relitives over. Sometimes we play football in the front yard. Then my family and I have a prayer before dinner. After everyone left last year, we started getting ready for Christmas.

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  40. Sometimes me and my family go to Miami,Florida or we stay home and my grandparents come and we eat turkey.Then we watch football after that talk and mess around.Then we go to our rooms and get ready for bed and go to bed.

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  41. Every thanksgiving my relatives come to my house for thanksgiving and my birthday. My mom always makes her thanksgiving dinner. Then after all the thanksgiving stuff we do my birthday stuff like the cake, the presents, and then we just visit and all go home.

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  42. Every Thanksgiving is somtimes diferent for me But we always watch a football game together. Then we eat a lot of turkey. After that we usaly sit around and talk for like an hour. then every body leaves very slowly. And that is my Thanksgiving.

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  43. Well I wait till my grandparents arrive and we eat and talk me and my brother play ball and no I dont set up for Christmas only AFTER...

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  44. My family does Thanksgiving different every year, but normally we eat a lot. Then we talk about assorted stuff. Then we stay up late and play games, and watch football games.

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  45. On Thanksgiving we sleep in, and go to a restaurant with my grandparents and my aunt and uncle. We come home and watch football, and play board games and Wii. We also talk about the blessings we have and take a nap. I am very thankful for my family.

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