weather you're about to celebrate thanksgiving, or if you've already celebrated it, what are some traditions on thanksgiving you and your freinds/family do every year?

i'm 31, and for as long as i could remember, we've never had rolls for thanksgiving. not because we don't like them, but because we always forgot them in the oven and by the time anyone remembered about them, it was too late. they were goners. burnt to a crisp in the oven.

two years ago i actually got to break this "tradition" and i made the most beaitful golden brown rolls anyone gad ever seen. and i've been boasting about it ever since.

Every Thanksgiving before we eat, we go around the table and say what we are all thankful for! It's really neat to hear all the things my family are thankful for! :D

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Recently, my husband smokes a turkey every year for his family's gathering, but my grandma used to host when she was alive and made sooooo much food! Rolls, stuffing, green bean casserole, creamed corn, pies, etc. SO MUCH! I miss her Thanksgivings. Her tradition was having all of us kids go through the Toys'R'Us and JC Penney catalogs and circle what we wanted for Christmas.

The night before Thanksgiving my family and friends attend "The Bonfire" held by the high school we used to attend. It serves as a pep rally of sorts for the big football game the next day, though we never cared about the game itslef. We just like going to see a massive pile of wood being lit on fire. There's a big parade with the high school band, a lightning ceremony, and then it usually is lit for the rest of the night.  We usually stay for an hour or two before going to Olive Garden that's nearby. The only time we don't go to the bonfire is if there's an active or priorrainstorm, because then it's a horrifically muddy mess. XD

Most of my immediate family used to go to Florida every year and we couldn't because I had school and now work, so we used to go to my mom's cousin's house every thanksgiving since they were local and also stayed in town, so it would always be just be a few of us. We used to have a sleepover every year and after thanksgiving dinner all of us kids used to go through the ads for black friday and then our moms would leave at midnight to go black friday shopping, armed with our christmas lists and we would pull out the hide-a-bed in the living room and watch christmas movies and eat leftovers until the wee hours of the morning. Now we usually go to my in-laws for a proper Thanksgiving lunch, but my husband and I usually buy a premade thanksgiving dinner from the store to be able to have leftovers during our Christmas movie binge on thanksgiving night.