my favorite thanksgiving day food has to be yams, and i will be spending it with my grandparents. I am thankful for my nephew who does nothing but brightens up my world, and my parents who always try their best to make me happy

I love mashed potatoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boston Market's Macaroni and Cheese, I can probably skip the turkey and eat that instead if I have to, that stuff is the best in the world :3

I will be spending Thanksgiving at my house with my family, and a lot of my new extended-family. I'm definitely thankful for being born as an American. I have been much more appreciative of just being an American while I have been in this class as I am learning about the many problems other areas of the world are having which make most of our problems look relatively insignificant. I am also very thankful for Coach Mounce letting me play Varsity Basketball here, the week I moved here during the Summer. It changed what would have been an extremely awkward first day of school into a semi-awkward first day of school because I allready knew so many people through my sport.

I am the type of person that eats all day every day, I am looking forward to everything on the table at Thanksgiving.

Every holiday, my cousins and I drink a bottle of Apple Cider all night. That's how we celebrate!!!

 

I am thankful for my family and the sacrifices that my parents make for my brother and I. We aren't big on tradition because our extended family lives far and my dad moved away for work but I still appreciate the time we get to spend together around food and a full day of movies and football.

Thanksgiving = awesome-tastic.  A holiday centered around family, food, American-ness, and thankfulness - that's like the Cav Quart-fecta of Fabulous.

My extended family always goes to my aunt's in Pasadena. She and my uncle are selling their house, so this will be our last Thanksgiving there.  sniff.  It is suprememly fantastic now because my cousins all have kids my kids' age, so there are at least nine kids under ten running around (sometimes people bring friends with kids, so there can be even more).

All of the cousins make their favorite side dish.  I am the mashed-potato-bringer and my husband usually makes apple pie.  There are a bunch of vegetarians in the fam, so sometimes there is weird stuff like nutloaf (meatloaf-like, but with nuts), but it all usually tastes good.  Except the inevitable tofurkey.  NOT recommended.

As with most Thanksgivings, I am supremely thankful for my amazing family, my inspiring friends, my extraordinary students, that I get to work here in this place I love, that I am an American, a citizen of the greatest country and the greatest beacon of freedom in the history of the world, that human rights like free speech and expression and voting and dignity - just dreaming about which is an act of bravery for many people in the rest of the world - are part of our birthright and our heritage, that I am fortunate enough on Thanksgiving and any other day to have a table full of delicious eats, a house in which to place that table, and family and friends that can freely travel to share it with me.

Anyone else doing the '30 Days of Thankfulness' on Facebook?  I am having to double up most days because I am thankful for so much, I'm going to run out of month before I run through my list - and I'm thankful for that, too!