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Are you celebrating Thanksgiving?
If so, what's your favorite part of it?
What's your favorite/ signature dish?

I love thanksgiving. We are grateful to God. There's not a lot of commercialism. Family comes together. Some years we are scattered, I like those years less ...

Christmas has become so commercial. Even Easter is getting polluted. Thanksgiving is still relatively pure.

Bootstrap wrote:I love thanksgiving. We are grateful to God. There's not a lot of commercialism. Family comes together. Some years we are scattered, I like those years less ...

Christmas has become so commercial. Even Easter is getting polluted. Thanksgiving is still relatively pure.

Agreed. I was telling my family how I wish there was an alternate spelling for cultural Christmas.
I.e. for all the unbleivers who take part in the too-fun-to-miss holiday festivities of December 25th.

KingdomBuilder wrote:

Bootstrap wrote:I love thanksgiving. We are grateful to God. There's not a lot of commercialism. Family comes together. Some years we are scattered, I like those years less ...

Christmas has become so commercial. Even Easter is getting polluted. Thanksgiving is still relatively pure.

Agreed. I was telling my family how I wish there was an alternate spelling for cultural Christmas.
I.e. for all the unbleivers who take part in the too-fun-to-miss holiday festivities of December 25th.

Christmas = X-mas or The Holidays or Yuletide
Merry Christmas = Happy Holidays or Season's Greetings
Christmas Tree = Holiday Tree

Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it.

KingdomBuilder wrote:Are you celebrating Thanksgiving?
If so, what's your favorite part of it?
What's your favorite/ signature dish?

Yes.

Time off work. We are planning to go see family & friends that we haven't seen for a while. I'm thankful for my new(er) van to travel in. Reconnect, get updated by each other. Converse. Watch my little children play with their cousins that they hardly know.

I'm not sure what my favorite food is. I like the all our traditional meal - turkey (dark meat!), ham, mashed potatoes & gravy, sweet potatoes, little bit of cranberry sauce, sweet corn, rolls, invariably someone makes a really good salad, coffee, pumpkin & pecan pie, cider.

I'm planning to see my cousin I see just once every year or two. My aunt and uncle will be in town too. I have a very small family, and my cousins, aunts and uncles, brothers and sister represent 3 nationalities, so we don't get to see each other too often.

I also look forward to visiting a different church next weekend near Cincinatti. Does anyone know of plain Anabaptist presence beyond the Washington Co.-Franklin church in Washington Court House, OH or the German Baptists in Dayton?

We usually celebrate Thanksgiving with my brother, it's a tradition we've only missed once or twice in the past 38 years. But we'll miss it again this year as we are going to visit our future in-laws at Singing Creek for Thanksgiving, along with the Michael Harris clan.

Thanksgiving turns into a family reunion of sorts for us and we do give thanks for each other. We try to avoid the commercialized Thanksgiving that promotes overeating, Black Friday shopping, etc.

Those that travel from a distance will bring their culinary skills and buy the necessary ingredients locally. Most of the dishes are homemade.
Staples
-mashed sweet potatoes
-ham from a local farmer
-wild turkey that we've hunted and prepped. If turkey is scarce, we hunt deer for roasted venison.
-garden corn and greens
-pecan pie and pumpkin pie (pumpkin bought from local farms)

The older children hunt turkey or deer with the adults. The younger children stay at the house and help scoop pumpkins, peel potatoes, make lunch and other chores. It becomes an anticipated rite of passage to be able to go with the hunting party

ken_sylvania wrote: Christmas = X-mas or The Holidays or Yuletide

The "X" in X-mas (still pronounced "Christmas") is a taking into our alphabet the Greek "Chi" which looks like "X", the first letter of "Christ". To me it emphasizes Christ.

JimFoxvog wrote:The "X" in X-mas (still pronounced "Christmas") is a taking into our alphabet the Greek "Chi" which looks like "X", the first letter of "Christ". To me it emphasizes Christ.

Thanks! I hadn't known that.