Thanksgiving Traditions

sikk50 · 11-18-2010, 09:27 AM

Every year since I can remember we have the priests (usually around 3-4 priests and a brother or two), and their usual cook (good friends with my mom, Korean imigrant and has no family state side), and a couple family friends or my friends if they have no where to go.

I love have the priests over, we do it for Easter and Christmas as well. They often have nowhere to go for dinner and they always give Chong (their cook) the holidays off. This started the year after my grandma disappeared, she had always wanted to do it, so my mom started as a rememberance thing.

Additionally we have two quirky little traditions. First we have a white table cloth we use only for Thanksgiving, we use perminant pens designed for cloth, and everyone present writes their name on the cloth and maybe a little note and the year. I think the oldest name was my grandmas last year, 1993. Its getting pretty full now. The next is after everyone leaves we sit down as a family, usually one of my friends is there by now, and watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation to kick off the Christmas season.

*Saddly I'm not going home for Thanksgiving this year. My parents will be coming up here and we will be having dinner with my Aunt and Uncle.

11-18-2010, 09:27 AM	#11
sikk50 Just Bored Really... Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Andrew Location: The Jefferson State Posts: 2,084 Trading: (13)	Re: Thanksgiving Traditions Every year since I can remember we have the priests (usually around 3-4 priests and a brother or two), and their usual cook (good friends with my mom, Korean imigrant and has no family state side), and a couple family friends or my friends if they have no where to go. I love have the priests over, we do it for Easter and Christmas as well. They often have nowhere to go for dinner and they always give Chong (their cook) the holidays off. This started the year after my grandma disappeared, she had always wanted to do it, so my mom started as a rememberance thing. Additionally we have two quirky little traditions. First we have a white table cloth we use only for Thanksgiving, we use perminant pens designed for cloth, and everyone present writes their name on the cloth and maybe a little note and the year. I think the oldest name was my grandmas last year, 1993. Its getting pretty full now. The next is after everyone leaves we sit down as a family, usually one of my friends is there by now, and watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation to kick off the Christmas season. *Saddly I'm not going home for Thanksgiving this year. My parents will be coming up here and we will be having dinner with my Aunt and Uncle. __________________ "Not a Headache in a Hogshead"