We are 3 days, 7 hours, 52 minutes, 40 seconds, and counting away from Thanksgiving!!!! I am so excited to see the Hall family and celebrate our Thanksgiving/Christmas together.The Halls have a lot of great traditions that we enjoy every year. We usually arrive at Mimi and Pappy's on the day of Thanksgiving so the minute we walk in the door our mouths start salivating from all the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen. Carol(Mimi) always makes a pre-dinner appetizer plate with sweet pickles, cinnamon cucumbers, olives and other yummy things that we snack on while we visit and finish the cooking.The table is always filled with the traditional Thanksgiving foods and everyone eats more than their fill while having a lively conversation about past Thanksgivings and what stores they want to shop at on Black Friday.The Hall Thanksgiving would not be complete if we didn't watch the Cowboys play. Everyone gathers in the living room and sits around talking and playing while the game is on.Sometime that night we exchange our Christmas gifts and then it is time to make a plan on what stores to go to and what to get. We all get a chance to look through the adds and dream about our purchases.Shopping commences early the next morning and by 8:00 am we are all back in the kitchen for a hardy Hall breakfast.There are so many other fun things that go on during our short 3 and a half day stay but this seems to be the standing tradition on Thanksgiving and the day after. I am so thankful to have married into such a fun loving family who is truly thankful for each other and what they have.
Nice play on words. :) sounds like a great time. We sang O Come Let Us Adore Him in church yesterday and had our church thanksgiving dinner so that made me think of Doug and singing that song at meadowlark all the time.
ReplyDeleteIt already sounds like you have had a blast and you haven't even gotten there. Can't wait to hear all about your "Hall-oday" Fun Fun coming your way.
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