Good morning and what a beginning to a fabulous week! Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I know all of you are looking forward to a short work week and spending a long weekend with your family and children. Thanksgiving is such a fun, wonderful, and overall exciting time of the year. This holiday often offers great food, even better time spent with family members, and begins to usher in the sights and sounds of Christmas. Oh, how I love the holidays!
In honor of Thanksgiving week, this blog post will be dedicated to all things Thanksgiving: a recipe or 2, some fun, family games to play around the table, a seasonal craft for your kiddos, and some activities to participate in for Thanksgiving weekend, around the Metro. Soooooo, let's get started:
Okay, so as this is my first Thanksgiving where I will be cooking the turkey (usually my mother and aunts hold that grand honor), I began stressing out late last week, looking for a simple turkey recipe that I thought I could handle. If any of you, like me, have kitchen/cooking anxiety (especially when it means cooking an oversized bird in your oven for hours upon end), then this is the perfect turkey recipe for you and me - simple and requires minimal ingredients. Thank you Food Network:
Good Eats Roast Turkey
Okay, so I'm sure you all have your Thanksgiving, traditional sides, but I also wanted to share a bit of a non-traditional side that my family enjoys each year at our Thanksgiving fiesta! Due to the fact that no one in my family (except my husband) enjoys that cranberry sauce out of a can, my family took a new twist on cranberries, and now makes this delicious recipe each year:
Cranberry Fluff Salad This is a fabulous recipe, and it doesn't make that strange slopping sound as it falls out of the can!
Okay, so dinner is made, turkey is done, and the meal is almost ready to go on the table. As you prepare the finishing touches for the meal you wonder how you will incorporate the old "tell us at least one thing you are thankful for this year" conversation into your Thanksgiving meal. Well, here is a great idea. All you need is some newspaper, a white table cloth, and colorful felt tip pens. Cover your table surface in newspaper and then lay down the white table cloth. With the felt tip pens, have each member of your family write somewhere on the table what they are thankful for this year. Then, when you are all seated, take turns reading off the items that are closest to where each person is sitting. This is a great way to encourage conversation, and puts a new spin on stating what each of you is thankful for.
Of course, we can't leave the children out...and as we all know, they are always the first ones done at the table, ready to move on to the next fun thing, while the adults wish to sit around and visit, or perhaps simply talk while they digest the copious amounts of food that they just inhaled. Haha...well here is an easy craft to set up ahead of time, that you can send the kids off to complete while the adults at Thanksgiving visit, catch up, and clean up from a fun meal:
Spoon Pilgrims
Okay, last but not least, I would like to provide you and your family some activities that may be going on Thanksgiving Day and the few following days, around the Oklahoma City area. Many of you may have relatives in town for the weekend, or are enjoying the first weekend in a long time, together with your family. Here are some great activities to enjoy with your family and others:
Thursday:
-Start off at 8:00 am with the Edmond Turkey Trot
-7:00 pm is the Norman Library Music Connection at the Norman Library
-10:00 pm begins the All Night Madness at the Outlet Shoppes in OKC
Then on Friday:
-at 12:00 pm visit the Express Edmond Outdoor Ice Rink
-3:30 pm is Scuba Santa at the Oklahoma Aquarium
-6:00 pm is the Holiday River Parade on the Oklahoma River
On Saturday:
-at 11:00 am is FREE crafts for Kids at Lakeshore Learning Center
-12:00 pm is Chesapeake Energy Snow Tubing at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark
-5:30 pm Christmas Lights are Up on the Farm at Orr Family Farm
There's plenty to do this Thanksgiving weekend. For more info visit the Metro Family Magazine's online calendar at: http://www.metrofamilymagazine.com/Calendar/
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone. Enjoy the holiday and enjoy your kids!
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