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Martha Stewart Thanksgiving
Posted By: Cindi
Date: Monday, 20 November 2000
Martha Stewart will not
be dining with us this Thanksgiving. I'm telling you in advance,
so don't act surprised. Since Ms. Stewart won't be coming, I've
made a few small changes:
Our sidewalk will not
be lined with homemade, paper bag luminaries. After a trial run,
it was decided that no matter how cleverly done, rows of flaming
lunch sacks do not have the desired welcoming effect.
The dining table will
not be covered with expensive linens, fancy china or crystal goblets.
If possible, we will use dishes that match and everyone will get
a fork. Since this IS Thanksgiving, we will refrain from using the
plastic Peter Rabbit plate and the Santa napkins from last Christmas.
Our centerpiece will
not be the tower of fresh fruit and flowers. Instead we will be
displaying a hedgehog-like decoration hand-crafted from the finest
construction paper. The artist assures me it is a turkey.
We will be dining fashionably
late. The children will entertain you while you wait. I'm sure they
will be happy to share every choice comment I have made regarding
Thanksgiving, pilgrims and the turkey hotline. Please remember that
most of these comments were made at 5:00 AM upon discovering that
the turkey was still hard enough to cut diamonds. As accompaniment
to the children's recital, I will play a recording of tribal drumming.
If the children should mention that I don't own a recording of tribal
drumming, or that tribal drumming sounds suspiciously like a frozen
turkey in a clothes dryer, ignore them. They are lying.
We toyed with the idea
of ringing a dainty silver bell to announce the start of our feast.
In the end, we chose to keep our traditional method. We've also
decided against a formal seating arrangement. When the smoke alarm
sounds, please gather around the table and sit where you like. In
the spirit of harmony, we will ask the children to sit at a separate
table. In a separate room. Next door. Now I know you have all seen
pictures of one person carving a turkey in front of a crowd of appreciative
onlookers. This will not be happening at our dinner. For safety
reasons, the turkey will be carved in a private ceremony. I stress
"private" meaning: Do not, under any circumstances, enter
the kitchen to laugh at me. Do not send small, unsuspecting children
to check on my progress. I have an electric knife. The turkey is
unarmed. It stands to reason that I will eventually win. When I
do, we will eat.
Before I forget, there
is one last change. Instead of offering a choice between 12 different
scrumptious desserts, we will be serving the traditional pumpkin
pie, garnished with whipped cream and small fingerprints. You will
still have a choice: take it or leave it.
Martha Stewart will not
be dining with us this Thanksgiving. She probably won't come next
year either. I am thankful.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Pilgrim manners for
Thanksgiving
Posted By: sharont
Date: Sunday, 19 November 2000
One of the fun things
we always do one evening meal before thanksgiving day is a Pilgrim
manners meal. One time we read a book that said that not only were
pilgrim children not allowed to talk at the table, they had to stand
at the table and ate after the father was finished. So we eat, with
the kids standing and quiet, one meal by candlelight. Sometimes
we also tape a small space similar to the very small space they
were allowed on the boat to the living room floor and they have
spent the afternoon in the space, the rest of the room was the "water"
so they had to stay in the boat. Also, our snack that day was only
bread and water. Afterwards we left the tape on the floor for 66
(?) days, the amount of days the pilgrims were sailing to America.
Of course we tied this in with making a number line and moving the
boat along it everyday. We will be doing the stand up meal next
Tuesday, by candlelight of course!
Found the book!
Posted By: sharont
Date: Monday, 20 November 2000
It is from the book ...If you sailed on the Mayflower by Ann McGovern. It says,
*children ate standing at the table all through the meal. It was
good manners to leave your hat on while you ate. You could not say
a word at the table unless a grown up spoke to you first. It was
good manners to eat with your fingers. There were no forks in Plymouth
and only a few wooden spoons. Clam shells were often used as spoons.
You would use the same knife to cut the meat that you use to cut
the wood. In some homes, the cooking pot was put right on the table.
Into the pot would go your clam shell-or your fingers-to take out
your food. Your plate would probably be a piece of wood called a
trencher. One side was flat.*It goes on to say that after dinner,
the men and women smoked their pipes!! You might be able to get
this book at your library, it is quite fun to read!
Fall table decorations...
Posted By: Dawn H.
Date: Monday, 30 October 2000
We had our new youth
pastor and his wife for dinner yesterday and I tried this. He was
really *impressed* with it!! LOL Kept checking out how I did it!
Anyway, core out some
apples, dip them in lemon juice to keep them from turning brown
and place a tea light inside. I took the tea light out of the metal
b/c it looked kinda tacky. Then place them on your table with Indian
corn, little pumpkins, nuts, whatever you have on hand. You could
even dip leaves in paraffin and place them around it as well.
Thanksgiving Turkey Candies
Posted By: Debi
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2000
Here is a treat that
is fun for kids to make. I have used these along with a namecard
on my Thanksgiving table.
Buy:
Oreo cookies (regular,
not "double stuff"
chocolate chips
cherry cordial chocolates (or a similar shape filled chocolate from
See's)
small "red hots"
candy corn
Chocolate frosting
Twist apart the Oreo
cookie. (Do not eat the frosting!). Lay the cookie with the frosting
on the table. Place the cherry cordial chocolate onto the Oreo (frosting
will hold it in place). Use chocolate frosting to cover the other
Oreo half and place it to one side of the chocolate candy at a slight
angle. This makes the tail. Press candy corn into the frosting around
the "tail" in a half-circle (feathers). Add chocolate
chip eyes and a red hot for that little dangly red thing on the
turkey's chin (don't laugh, I really don't remember what it is called...).
Enjoy!
Traditions
Family Get Away!
Posted By: Mary Leggewie
Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2000
We used to go away
every year to with Robin's parents and his cousin. We rented
cabins in a beautiful natural area. Played cards every night
and did NOTHING! It was wonderful.
Now that we live
in a similar area, we have family here!
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Camping!
Posted By: JanB
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2000
We did several 'new'
things last year. My DH always has to work on Thanksgiving, so last
year we decided to go camping the weekend before and do Thanksgiving
out in the wild! We took a smoked turkey breast and all the trimmings,
cooked over an open fire, it was absolute heaven! We are definitely
planning on doing it again this year!
Tree of Thanks
Posted By: Dawn H.
Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2000
We put a *trunk* made
out of paper on the wall. Then I cut out all kinds of paper leaves
from yellow, orange and brown construction paper. Then each night
during devotions or when someone thinks of something, we write down
something we are thankful for. I always start the tree with Jesus
and each immediate member of our family. One year I wrote "Andrew
being potty trained!" It's neat to see what the kids come up
with.
We do this too
Posted By: TN Lizzie
Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2000
and then make a book
in December. We glue our leaves on paper and add photos of the kids
standing in front of or under the tree. Great fun to go back and
see what we were thankful for in previous years!
Cooking
Be sure to visit our
recipe board and check for
dates of posts around the holidays for ideas.
Cooking for a crowd?
Here's my tip! Cook in ADVANCE!
Posted By: Mary Leggewie
Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
I used to buy those already
done dinners you just reheated when it was crazy (when I had babies!)
and we had company. Now I cook the turkey a day ahead. If you don't
want to do that, you could cook all the extras the day before. I've
found that I can do the mashed potatoes, prep the green beans, do
a fancy Jello salad, etc the day before, and it takes a LOT of stress
off of me! Plus you don't have to get up at the crack of dawn to
put in a turkey on that LONG day!
UPDATE! The new "hot
ticket:" I discovered OVEN BAGS! You stuff the turkey, put
it in the bag and forget about it! No basting! No mess, either,
because you set the bagged turkey in a pan and the mess (and juice
for gravy) stays in the bag!!!
DELEGATE!!!!
Posted By: TN Lizzie
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2000
If you're invited, you
bring SOMETHING!
This way, the host family
has the meal at their house, prepares the Turkey and the drinks.
Everyone else brings everything else!
Of course, the women
congregate in the kitchen after the meal, while the men become comatose
in the living room until someone tosses in a football~ then it's
outside until someone discovers that we've forgotten about dessert!
Turkey disasters
Posted By: sharont
Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2000
Yes--be sure you take
the little plastic bag of stuff out of the turkey before you cook
it. Being a self-taught cook, the first year I did the turkey, I
left the bag in when I cooked it thinking it was some kind of self-basting
stuff. Nobody wanted to eat the turkey because they were afraid
of getting some kind of toxic poisoning!!Little did I tell them
I had dropped the turkey on the floor too before I cooked it because
of buying one of those flimsy foil pans!!! Ahh, such are the memories!!
CRAFTS
Handprint Pumpkin Patch
Posted By: TN Lizzie
Date: Monday, 23 October 2000, at 3:56 p.m.
** Handprint Pumpkin
Patch **
Need:
Orange, green and brown washable paints
Paper
Markers
Directions:
Apply Orange Tempera
Paint to the palm of a hand. Press palm onto paper. Repeat process
until desired number of "pumpkins appear" (It's okay if
they overlap) Using index finger & Green Tempera Paint, make
stem. Then use fingertip to create leaves near the stem. Use the
soap and water to clean up hands. Let project dry! Optional: You
can make just one pumpkin print, and then cut out a square around
it and mount to a piece of burlap, and attach a piece of magnetic
strip to the back!
I
love the fall! Want to share how you all preserve leaves?
Posted
By: Kelly
Wednesday, 26 September 2001
Do you iron them between
wax paper? Dip them in melted wax?
I am going to try the
wax thing this year with the boys. We are going to be compiling
a big bark, seed, leaf collection. I can't wait to go hiking!
Did I say I loved fall?
Kelly
Response
#1
We've
ironed leave between waxed paper and......
Posted
By: Roxanne
Wednesday, 26 September 2001
...then hang it in a
sunny window. When the light shines through the leaves, it is absolutely
beautiful. Have fun!!!!!!
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I
could use some ideas for fall crafts here is what we've done
or are doing...
Posted
By: suzi
Thursday, 27 September 2001
Today we made a
frame with small twigs and limbs that fell after the storm
the other night. Our yard was loaded with these. I thought
we would make a wreath by tracing different leaves on to construction
paper and then cut them out and glue into a circle. This way
ds will have a fall wreath for his room.
I could use some
other creative ideas.
Thanks,
Suzi
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Thanksgiving
Dinner...
Posted
By: Donna in IN
Friday, 28 September 2001
The kids have announced
they are tired of turkey - WAAAAAA! - and want something else. We
have ham for Christmas so could someone suggest something else?
Thanks!
Response
#1
Cornish
game hens....
Posted
By: Allie
Saturday, 29 September 2001
or duck. My aunt has
been making the cornish game hens for a couple of years. Dh, our
first Thanksgiving together, did the duck...but maybe you could
find a better recipe than he did, it was kind of greasy.
Response
#2
Prime
rib or beef tenderloin or a standing rib roast
Posted
By: julie
Saturday, 29 September 2001
or something like that
- fancy and expensive that you just don't have every day.
Response
#3
You
know what we do, Donna?
Posted
By: julie
Sunday, 30 September 2001
We make everyone's favorites.
DH wants turkey, dressing,
etc (I just roast or smoke a turkey breast instead of whole turkey)
DS wants chili with cheese
and fritos
DD wants dumplings
DS wants hot dogs
We always have everyone's
favorites. Everyone is "thankful".
Response
#4
Corned
beef, potatoes, carrots, cabbage
Posted
By: Cathe
Wednesday, 3 October 2001
We like this. And it's
much less work.
There are just the four
of us. I really dislike holidays where I spend all day in the kitchen
alone while the guys get the holiday.
Response
#5
Re:
Thanksgiving Dinner...
Posted
By: Julie in WA
Monday, 8 October 2001
My mom used to have placecards
at the table. On each card, it said, "I'm thankful you're..." Before
dinner, we went around and filled in the sentence. We didn't use
our names, but was easy enough to figure out who wrote what *s*.
It was a great way to express and receive thankfulness.
Response
#6
Lasagna
Posted
By: Liz
Monday, 22 October 2001
My mom made great lasagna
and we had it for Christmas after we were sick of Turkey. It always
seems Christmas-y because of the colors to me.
Thanksgiving
placemats (fall leaves & wax paper)...
Posted
By: Mary Leggewie
Friday, 2 November 2001
A friend came over the
other day and brought us a pretty "framed" photo and I think it
would make a great placemat!
What about taking fall
leaves and placing them between two sheets of waxed paper and ironing
them (between thin towels so you don't mess up your ironing board).
Then make a frame out of construction paper.
I don't think that dinner
plates placed on these placemats would be hot enough to mess up
your tablecloth, do you?
My friend even had little
shreddings of old crayons in with the leaves. If you pick crayons
of fall colors, I'll bet it would be pretty, especially if you live
in an area where you can't find fall leaves!
"Tree
of Thanks"
Posted
By: Mary Leggewie
Friday, 2 November 2001
We do this too and it's
been really nice.
I think this year we'll
add some Bible verse leaves!
Response
#1
We
do this too!
Posted
By: TN Lizzie
Friday, 2 November 2001
I've used masking tape
to make a tree trunk on the wall, and I've used a piece of fabric
as a backdrop.
I've also used a real
tree limb, stuck in plaster of paris, so it stands up like a trunk.
We start ours on Nov.
1 and add "Thankful" leaves in November, and "Name of God" snowflakes
in December.
Response
#2
We
are making a "Jesse Tree"
Posted
By: Michelle T
Friday, 2 November 2001
I don't know all the
details, my friend Ruth is planning it. But it is made out of felt
of many colors and we put Scripture verses on it and it is for Advent.
After next Tuesday, I'll have more details. Maybe even a photo!!
Response
#3
We
do a turkey of Thanks...
Posted
By: Pam McL
Sunday, 4 November 2001
using a LARGE pinecone...adding
construction paper feathers for things we're thankful for. It looks
cute and it doesn't take up much space. I wanted to do the tree
this year for a change, but I just don't see a nice place to put
it with all the fresh paint on the walls here this fall. (Assuming
we're talking about the same tree--paper trunk--construction paper
leaves.)
Citizen
Magazine article: "Plymouth Crock." All about Plymouth Plantation
and its politically correct challengers
Posted
By: Mary Leggewie
Friday, 9 November 2001
It was written a few
years ago by Doug Phillips, but worth a re-read as we near Thanksgiving.
Plymouth
Crock--Citizen Mag (a Focus on the Family publication)
http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics/articles/2004-11-04_002.aspx
Response
#1
Re:
Citizen Magazine article: "Plymouth Crock." All about Plymouth Plantation
and its politically correct challengers
Posted
By: Amanda Bennett
Friday, 9 November 2001
Great article, Mary!
Thanks for pointing it out -- serves as a wonderful reminder that
people are working so hard to rewrite history.
And from a well-spoken
patriot only 200 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims:
Daniel Webster, 1820
"We have come to this
Rock, to record here our homage for our Pilgrim Fathers; our sympathy
in their sufferings; our gratitude for their labours; our admiration
of their virtues; our veneration for their piety; and our attachment
to those principles of civil and religious liberty, which they encountered
the dangers of the ocean, the storms of heaven, the violence of
savages, disease, exile, and famine, to enjoy and establish. - And
we would leave here, also, for the generations which are rising
up rapidly to fill our places, some proof, that we have endeavored
to transmit the great inheritance unimpaired; that in our estimate
of public principles, and private virtue; in our veneration of religion
and piety; in our devotion to civil and religious liberty; in our
regard to whatever advances human knowledge, or improves human happiness,
we are not altogether unworthy of our origin."
Blessings,
Amanda B.
Pilgrim
Hall Museum
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/
Please
share with us what your favorite books for Thanksgiving/Pilgrims
are...here are mine...
Posted
By: Mary Leggewie
Friday, 9 November 2001
We always pull these
books out at Thanksgiving:
Sarah
Morton's Day by Kate Waters
Samuel
Eaton's Day by Kate Waters
Tapenum's
Day by Kate Waters
The kids love these books
and the photos are GREAT!
Amazon carries them...please
use our affiliate links.
Response
#1
Here
are a few of our favorites:
Posted
By: Amanda Bennett
Friday, 9 November 2001
William Bradford:
Plymouth's Faithful Pilgrim, by Gary D. Schmidt
Squanto
and the Miracle of Thanksgiving, by Eric Metaxas
Eating
The Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners, by Lucille
Recht Penner
Three
Young Pilgrims, by Cheryl Harness
Faith Unfurled: The
Pilgrim's Quest for Freedom, edited by Sheila Foley
So many good books, so
little time! I look forward to seeing other people's favorites,
too.
Blessings,
Amanda B.
Response
#2
Stories
of the Pilgrims...
Posted
By: Debi
Friday, 9 November 2001
Stories
of the Pilgrims by Magaret Pumphrey
For fun:
A
Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting (A really funny twist!),
'Twas
the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey
Molly's
Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
We also enjoy the books
already listed!
Response
#3
Molly's
Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
Posted
By: TN Lizzie
Wednesday, 14 November 2001
Molly is a turn of the
century Jewish immigrant girl from Russia. She lives in a small
town, where no one understands her, and other children make fun
of her clothes, and accent and her ignorance of American customs.
In November, her classmates are appalled that she has never heard
of Thanksgiving. But as we get to know Molly better, we, and eventually
her classmates, realize that this child, who left her country and
moved to America so that she and her family could practice their
religion without fear is no different from the first pilgrims.
By the time they reach
second or third grade, most children have heard the story of the
first Thanksgiving many, many times. This is a wonderful way to
renew the meaning of the story for them, by reminding them that
people are still coming to American for the same reasons they came
hundreds of years ago.
Response
#4
Here's
a few from a friend...
Posted
By: Martha Robinson
November 9, 2002
The First
Thanksgiving Amazon
/ ChristianBook
-- a Step-Into-Reading book.
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving, Amazon
/ ChristianBook
by Eric Metaxas
A Pioneer Sampler Amazon
/ ChristianBook
N.C.
Wyeth's Pilgrims, text by Robert San Souci
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving Amazon
/ ChristianBook
by Louisa May Alcott
What
about favorite Thanksgiving movies? (We'll do Christmas in another
thread later on).
Posted
By: Mary Leggewie
Friday, 9 November 2001
Charlie
Brown's Mayflower is fun.
Response
#1
I
always associate the Wizard of Oz and Charlotte's Web with Thanksgiving
Posted
By: Julie
Sunday, 11 November 2001
That is when they would
air when I was a child.
Response
#1
I
read this at the end of Thanksgiving dinner....
Posted
By: Allie
Saturday, 24 November 2001
boy, did it get the attention
of my public school cousins! LOVE his stuff!
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