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We the people of The Potter’s School love our Thanksgiving holiday and here’s why (beside the fact that there’s no school!):

Erin Meekhof (Woodridge, Virginia)

One of my family’s Thanksgiving traditions is to make pumpkin pie for dessert and eat it with cool whip, a once-a-year treat. Another one is, the weekend after Thanksgiving, we go and pick out our Christmas tree. It really makes it the holiday season. We usually all help my mom make the food, and my dad always cuts the turkey. Philip, my brother, wants to cut the turkey every year, but my parents always say no, understandably. Before Thanksgiving dinner (which is actually lunch) we go around the table and each person has to thank God for at least one thing. For our actual dinner, which could be called supper, we always eat a simple meal with fruit and turkey sandwiches, a light meal since we are all still so full from the Thanksgiving lunch.

I think that my favorite [tradition] is helping my mom cook everything. This year, since I am older, I’m going to help bake the pumpkin pie (one of my very favorite desserts) and maybe the turkey and other dishes. I really like cooking. I think the tradition of how helping my mom cook got started because it’s such a family holiday, and there are so many things to cook. What could be a boring chore is really quite fun when everyone helps.

Rebecca Corrin (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania)

1) We always have family or friends over.

2) We always have a turkey, sweet potatoes, green beans, rolls, pumpkin pie and some other stuff.

3) We usually always try and say one thing we’re thankful for.

My favorite would probably be having friends and family over.  It’s always a time of togetherness and I feel especially thankful to have a family!  It mainly started when we would just invite family over for Thanksgiving.  Pretty soon it ended up being a yearly thing, which is awesome. Thanksgiving is an awesome holiday and one where we can truly count our many, many amazing blessings.

Emily Renken (Blue Earth, Minnesota)

At Thanksgiving, our tradition is to not have a tradition. We use the break to enjoy each others company; my dad is gone most of the time traveling for work, and my brother is at college. I love spending time with my family. When we moved to Blue Earth, and my dad started traveling, he just wanted to stay home on holidays. Often times we will go to my grandma's house in St. Paul, usually taking advantage of the after Thanksgiving sales.  

If we stay home, we all pick a side dish of our choice and those picked with the turkey make our Thanksgiving meal. We go to church on Wednesday night and spend time thanking our wonderful Creator. All in all, it is a time of thanking God for our family and the many blessings God has provided.

Jonathan Williams (West Virginia)

Well, we eat turkey!  At one point, we used to go to Nashville to celebrate with our grandmother, but she's moved here now, so that tradition's dead.  Now, we have both grandmothers up (both grandfather's are gone) and we have a large dinner.

I liked going to Nashville, because I have some cousins up there I'm quite fond of, and I'm going to miss going up there every year for Thanksgiving.

Samantha Young (Northfield, Minnesota)

My family always spends Thanksgiving with my mom’s side of the family. We generally eat our big Thanksgiving dinner somewhere between 12:00 and 2:00pm, but before we’re allowed to dig in, everyone seated around the table has to mention something that they’re particularly thankful for that year. After stuffing our faces we hang out with family for the rest of the day—playing games, watching football, strategically planning the next day’s Christmas shopping escapades, or just talking.

Another fun, and probably more unique, tradition our family has developed actually takes place on the Friday or Saturday directly following Thanksgiving—the annual Christmas tree hunt. Bundled up against of the frosty Minnesota chill (and sometimes snow), the entire family visits one or more Christmas tree farms in search of the “perfect” tree. Following much debate as to what height, width, color, and type of pine needle constitutes a “perfect” tree—there’s ten of us, here, so this can take a while—we finally choose one, cut it down, bring it home, and set it up to be decorated within the next week or so . . . or whenever Dad can get the Christmas tree lights from last year untangled. Though finding a tree would generally be considered a Christmas tradition, because of the timing of this event my family has always associated it with the Thanksgiving holiday.

Honestly, I’d have to say the food [is my favourite tradition]; perhaps not a unique tradition, but still an ever-so-ingenious one. I mean, we’re talking mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls, salad, black olives, fruit, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin or peach pie smothered in Cool Whip to top it all off. Plus, for the entire next week you get to enjoy the most amazing of foods whenever you want as you eat up the leftover turkey and side dishes.

 

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