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e, like Snoopy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stuart the Minion, or SpongeBob Square Pants floating majestically high over the crowds.This year’s parade will feature 16 giant character balloons, 26 floats, 32 novelty and heritage inflatables, 12 marching bands, 700 clowns, and eight musical performance groups, and begins at 8:30 a.m.2. Breaking the turkey wishbone for good luck is another hallowed American tradition. Two people grasp either end of the wishbone, make a wish, and snap the bone apart. Whoever ends up with the biggest part of the wishbone will have their wish come true!3. Feasting together with your family, significant others, and closest friends in a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal is the centerpiece of Thanksgiving.Most people opt for the familiar turkey with gravy, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, and vegetables. Vegan substitutes abound, like green bean casserole, tofu, or mock turkey substitutes.Biscuits or rolls are in plentiful supply both before and after the main meal, and pumpkin or pecan pie for dessert is always a tasty and popular crowd-pleaser.4. The Thanksgiving Day nap after all that food is almost a tradition in most American family households. Stuffing ourselves with all these delicious dishes produces an almost irresistible sleepy torpor.Part of this is because turkey is well-known for containing tryptophan, which releases chemicals like melatonin that make you sleepy. It’s all part of the old gorge and snooze reflex.5. For most people, watching football on TV is a very integral part of the Thanksgiving Day experience. The

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re is always an abundance of both NFL and usually college games as well.Even if you don’t like football, it is still a very comfortable time-honored tradition and the TV is usually on all day in the background. It provides a buzz of comfort and routine and people check in and out at different times.If you have a lot of younger kids, many families like to have a pick-up game in the backyard or street to run off some of that youthful energy. The Kennedys were famous for their holiday touch football games.5. A relatively new tradition is Friendsgiving, where young adults like to gather together with their besties and share the traditional Thanksgiving meal, especially if they are away from home. Or let’s face it, if they just don’t want to hear a stereotypical drunken uncle rave on about politics.6. Another relatively new tradition is shopping and planning to shop for the ubiquitous and insanely popular Black Friday after Thanksgiving sales.Prices are slashed and stores are packed, sometimes at the stroke of midnight and sometimes even earlier. Some families regard this new tradition as the perfect nightcap for a day of family fun.Many communities also like to give back at this special holiday time by staging food drives, hosting or helping out with Thanksgiving dinners as volunteers at food shelters for those less fortunate.Thanksgiving is all about being grateful for what we have and celebrating the joy of being together with our favorite people on this special holiday.Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Celebrate and enjoy. We are all connected…</article></body>

Do You Have a Favorite Thanksgiving Tradition You Always Follow

Almost everybody does, it is a special time for thanks and gratitude-savor the joy

No matter where we live, or who we are, we all have certain holiday traditions that we all observe faithfully on different holidays.

Thanksgiving has been around so long we have had time to develop many holiday traditions, some individual and some so popular they have near-universal appeal to both young and old.

What are some of yours?

Thanksgiving has so many traditions associated with it! It is a time for giving thanks, expressing our love, sharing, and caring.

We all usually gather together with those nearest and dearest to us for a traditional meal with our family and loved ones, attending a parade, shopping, or volunteering to help the less fortunate.

Some of the more popular Thanksgiving Day activities include…

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It is one of the most popular holiday traditions in America and is viewed by millions on TV and thousands in person every year.

They watch on TV or flock to NYC to watch the colorful parade live and in living color.

It’s famous for its giant inflatable balloons of popular icons of our culture, like Snoopy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stuart the Minion, or SpongeBob Square Pants floating majestically high over the crowds.

This year’s parade will feature 16 giant character balloons, 26 floats, 32 novelty and heritage inflatables, 12 marching bands, 700 clowns, and eight musical performance groups, and begins at 8:30 a.m.

2. Breaking the turkey wishbone for good luck is another hallowed American tradition. Two people grasp either end of the wishbone, make a wish, and snap the bone apart. Whoever ends up with the biggest part of the wishbone will have their wish come true!

3. Feasting together with your family, significant others, and closest friends in a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal is the centerpiece of Thanksgiving.

Most people opt for the familiar turkey with gravy, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, and vegetables. Vegan substitutes abound, like green bean casserole, tofu, or mock turkey substitutes.

Biscuits or rolls are in plentiful supply both before and after the main meal, and pumpkin or pecan pie for dessert is always a tasty and popular crowd-pleaser.

4. The Thanksgiving Day nap after all that food is almost a tradition in most American family households. Stuffing ourselves with all these delicious dishes produces an almost irresistible sleepy torpor.

Part of this is because turkey is well-known for containing tryptophan, which releases chemicals like melatonin that make you sleepy. It’s all part of the old gorge and snooze reflex.

5. For most people, watching football on TV is a very integral part of the Thanksgiving Day experience. There is always an abundance of both NFL and usually college games as well.

Even if you don’t like football, it is still a very comfortable time-honored tradition and the TV is usually on all day in the background. It provides a buzz of comfort and routine and people check in and out at different times.

If you have a lot of younger kids, many families like to have a pick-up game in the backyard or street to run off some of that youthful energy. The Kennedys were famous for their holiday touch football games.

5. A relatively new tradition is Friendsgiving, where young adults like to gather together with their besties and share the traditional Thanksgiving meal, especially if they are away from home. Or let’s face it, if they just don’t want to hear a stereotypical drunken uncle rave on about politics.

6. Another relatively new tradition is shopping and planning to shop for the ubiquitous and insanely popular Black Friday after Thanksgiving sales.

Prices are slashed and stores are packed, sometimes at the stroke of midnight and sometimes even earlier. Some families regard this new tradition as the perfect nightcap for a day of family fun.

Many communities also like to give back at this special holiday time by staging food drives, hosting or helping out with Thanksgiving dinners as volunteers at food shelters for those less fortunate.

Thanksgiving is all about being grateful for what we have and celebrating the joy of being together with our favorite people on this special holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Celebrate and enjoy. We are all connected…