Todays is:
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, your blog challenge is to write about your Thanksgiving traditions. Do you take a walk after dinner? Do you hit the movies? Do you have very specific dishes that you make yearly? Was there a disaster when you broke tradition one year? Who does the cooking? Who cleans up?
Hope you join in and post a link to your blog in the challenge thread when you are through!
Here is my answer (thanks for patiently waiting -LOL)
Growing up in a large family - we always got together for holidays and I miss that now that I live so far away.
Just about everyone had a special item that they were expected to bring to the get together. My sister Rita made the pumpkin bread and coleslaw. My sister Vivian made the bean salad. My brother in law Larry and neice Jennifer made home made rolls. My Mom was the baker - in charge of cakes, candies and pies and the Deviled Eggs. Now that she is gone, that has fallen to various family members - but none can make it like Mom.
When it is just DH and I and the kids, we traditionally invite the neighbors on either side of us, and any of the Sailors that have no place to go. I make Turkey, Spiral Cut Ham, Mashed potatoes, gravy (I have to have the neighbor help with the gravy & potatoes as I can never get them right) Deviled Eggs, Pumpkin Bread, Cranberry Sauce, Corn, Rolls and for dessert Lemon Meringue Pie Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Pie Apple Pie :) No one leaves hungry - but writing this post has made me hungry LOL.
