We thought it would be fun to ask our Vision Software team to share with us their family’s Thanksgiving traditions. Please enjoy the responses (edited for privacy) as much as we do!!
- “On Thanksgiving Day my extended family gets together that morning to run/walk in a local 5k fundraiser. After the race, everyone comes over to my house for a Thanksgiving lunch feast. Running/walking in the 5k lessens the guilt of pigging out at lunch time!”
- “I always make homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast. My daughter has helped cook lunch since she was one. We always start the meal by everyone saying what they are thankful for and after lunch we always do a trivia game, and the winner gets a nice prize. Then we do the plastic wrap game and watch the competition and fighting begin. LOL”
- “Well, my mom always had the traditional turkey dinner every year. Nothing particularly different about it – my mom isn’t a make it from scratch kind of girl. I still go to my mom’s house for Thanksgiving dinner in my child home – I know how lucky i am to get to do that again this year!
- Always turkey and stuffing are the tradition here, mashed potatoes, acorn squash, beans, pumpkin pie, butter tarts. We (me) always made the 20 lb. turkey on the BBQ regardless of the weather! After dinner, it’s a fun evening of multiple tables playing euchre!”
- “My family’s Thanksgiving tradition for 50 years is going to the Detroit Lions football game. After the game, dinner was at my parents’ house. Tradition has changed a little in the last 15 years, we still go to the game but, now we tailgate downtown, making Thanksgiving breakfast, then walk over to Woodward Ave. to watch America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (Detroit parade) then on to the stadium to cheer on our LIONS! #ONEPRIDE”
- “About 30 people come to my house on Thanksgiving! LR’s Long Island Ice Teas are enjoyed, as well as the “May I” card game!”
- “When my grandma was still around, we would typically go to her house and every year the family would work on putting together jigsaw puzzles.”
- “We don’t really have any Thanksgiving traditions in my house. One thing that might be considered a tradition is that my sister and I always listen to Christmas music and make homemade bread the day before Thanksgiving.”
- “My sister and her husband usually have it at their house; he grills the hams & turkey on a smoker grill. It’s usually a combination of his family & hers. Thanksgiving night, my sister’s son’s in-law have us over to their home for dinner. It’s nice because we get to see their traditions as well. They go all out with china place settings, cloth napkins, several forks & spoons, etc. Then when we are finished, we go back to her house and plot out the next day’s shopping!!!”
- “We typically go over to my dad’s house early to cook/watch football. My sisters and I cook, and the guys usually watch football/nap🤣. We usually play family games after we eat.”
- “We don’t really have any. We just go over that morning to help finish up cooking and setting up. I said we, I meant me-LOL. It’s always both sides of the family.”
- “We just go to my daughters for the meal with all our kids/grandkids. We don’t even eat turkey sometimes! In the past, Mom made turkey, noodles, mashed potatoes, etc. We ate until we couldn’t fit another bite! LOL – and a nap on the living room floor.”
- “Every Thanksgiving, my mom makes my grandmother’s (Granner’s) dinner rolls! They’re the best, of course!”
- “We always watch the Macy’s parade, enjoy a nicer or fancier breakfast, always ham instead of turkey for dinner and ALWAYS my mom’s sweet potato casserole (the southern way with caramelized brown sugar and pecans on top).”