That's so cute!

Dad should be happy there are no pictures.

A few years back, I went and sat on the couch after eating. My dh sat next to me. According to the picture my son took, the dog joined us next and we were all there sleeping.

Not a tradition, but many decades ago, one of my younger sisters had us all laughing. We were taught table manners, and were not allowed to kneel on the chairs. One Thanksgiving, after the turkey part of the feast, my sister (age four) knelt up and was reprimanded by my mother. Her reply -- "But Mummy, my tummy won't bend!".... =)

I can't think of any Thanksgiving tradition we have, aside from a very long walk after the carb heavy meal.

The tradition in our house is the meal, and we break out the special Christmas mugs for the whole holiday season for mulled cider during the afternoon and evening. My kids love all that ceremony, and the aroma and flavor. When I was a girl, my father would carefully spare the wishbone to set aside to dry out for wishing in a few weeks. He would hang it over the end pipe of the dining room radiator for drying purposes. He loved to have 2 of us kids make a wish with it after dinner while he was sitting with mom over coffee. And then Mom would make her so delicious turkey frame soup for all of us. It was my favorite soup.

We were a strictly " not Christmas until Thanksgiving is over" family -- but, once 7:30 pm or so rolled around, it was break out the Christmas music, and everyone piled into the car to go see the Christmas lights lit downtown for the first time.

We also always went to church on Thanksgiving Day (and Christmas Day); but now it is not easy to find a church that has a service on the holiday.

Now my daughter and I do one of the local runs on Thanksgiving morning.

Every year I give the grand-kids a Christmas countdown candy calendar on Thanksgiving and on St Nickolas day (Dec 6th) they get a little Christmas candy and Christmas PJs.

Food may be fun but I agree with the importance of church service on that day. After all it is a day to thank the Lord for all the blessings He has given us. Fortunately our church always has services for T-day.

dh and the grands play the horse race game...(includes a lot of change)

As kids, we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the morning. We always had a half a grapefruit with a maraschino cherry in the center with breakfast. The March of the Wooden Soldiers with Laurel and Hardy was always shown in the afternoon and we watched it while impatiently waiting for dinner. After dinner, all nine of us piled into my aunt and uncle's pink Chrysler and drove down Main Street to see the Christmas lights.

When DGS1 was about 9, I decided to fix Scottish roast pheasant for Thanksgiving dinner instead of turkey. I told the family in advance. At his school, the week before Thanksgiving, the students were to share some of the foods their family would be eating for Thanksgiving dinner. DGS1 raised his hand and proudly said that his grandmother would be preparing Scotch roasted FERRET! My daughter sent a note to his teacher assuring her we were not dining on roast ferret, Scottish or not!

We go run 5 miles in The Garden Of The Gods before coming home to shower and eat. Dh & I laugh and talk, catching up on our week. There are usually several other couples on long walks that happily yell to us to slow down were making them look bad or some other jesting....it's a fun time.

I've never slept after a meal, regular or holiday.

Several years ago, I started a "tradition" that I appreciate. After our feast has settled and afternoon dessert is over, my family hangs the Christmas wreaths and puts up the outside decorations for me and my grandkids get out the tree and decorates it. I am so thankful for their help.

No traditions but this is how we spent one Thanksgiving back in 1971.

Jody usually works on Thanksgiving. One year we wanted to go out to eat for Thanksgiving, but we didn't have enough money. So we decided to take the boat shrimping and make one drag, sell the shrimp and go out to eat. It was just Jody and me on the boat, Three Brothers.

We made a drag....caught a lot of shrimp....couldn't stop and come in, so kept shrimping. At the end of the day, we started for the dock. Of course, when we got there, the fish house (who we sold to) was closed. So we unloaded the boat, iced the shrimp and put them in the cooler. Three Brothers was a big boat but it was so rough that day. I remember still feeling like we were still rocking and rolling on the waves when I got on the dock. Very tired. We had about $1200 in shrimp, but no one to pay us until the next day. On the way home we found a convenience store that was open, and bought two turkey tv dinners. That was our Thanksgiving. (Ahhh....to be young again!!)

Marilyn, cute story-turkey TV dinners I love it!

When our 2 girls were young & still lived at home we would eat our turkey dinner around noon. We then would put up the Christmas tree after it was decorated we would watch "Miracle on 34th St."

Swear after the fact that we will NEVER eat like that again