Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  Yes, Mom, that is what today is here in the United States!  We have learned a lot about Thanksgiving in the USA, why it is celebrated, and it's typical traditions!  Did you know it all started here in New England, where we are right now!?  Awesome, huh!??

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S. , Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season...

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621.  The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, and was attended by 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.  The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

Awe, Mom, there was SOO MUCH food!  There is a "traditional" menu, but each family is different.  But, if you want to stick to tradition, most Thanksgiving meals consist of the following items, in some fashion:

Our only problem was which one of us was going to operate the fork and which would handle the knife!  LOL!  

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Ooops!  Excuse us!!!