My brothers and sister and their children and grandchildren. A great photo-op and I only have to drive 22 miles.

Ah, the in-laws…or outlaws. Whatever.

Home with my parents with brother/wife from DC.  Traditional turkey and fixings.  A peaceful, joyous time.  Unlike other holidays in other venues where both of us felt like The_Archer_of_the_Forest. 

May we all recognize the many blessings God has given us - even when we don’t see them as blessings at the time!

Just immediate Family this time.  Daughter is home from college, and there was a possibility she might bring a friend home for the holiday (but that didn’t work out).  The turkey is in the oven.  Had a good time last night setting up for “the day”.

We had an invite to spend Thanksgiving with the in-laws, but thinking daughter might have a guest, we declined.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Jim Elliott
Florida

My wife and I are visiting daughter, son-in-law, and almost two year old granddaughter in Bristol UK. Traditional US Thanksgiving in a place of other traditions!  Blessed Thanksgiving to all!

Ken

I rode my mountain bike up a mountain for the annual turkey ride with about 400 other mountain bike riders.  Now I’m about to have a recovery drink provided by a local brewery before my wife and I go away for a mini vacation.  Next year I’m going to get my parish to sponsor the beer for the turkey ride.  I think it will be a great bridge event.  As far as I know I’m the only pastor out there.

I came home to Battle Ground, Washington from school in southern California for Thanksgiving. I’m spending the holiday with my immediate family (parents and brothers). Unfortunately I had to bring home a mountain of study material so there hasn’t been too much relaxing going on.

This year, Zhang Li, one of my son’s teacher from Qing Hua University in Beijing, is teaching at Yale. She came home with him yesterday, so we have a guest from China, someone who has never seen the whole Thanksgiving spread and for whom, this edge-of-winter world is very strange.
 
  Does anyone know if other countries have official Thanksgiving days? Are they common or are we alone (more or less)?  Larry

I know Canada has a Thanksgiving, It’s the second Monday in October.

The origin and history of Thanksgiving Day in Canada is different from the American Thanksgiving. Whereas the American tradition talks about remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The geographical location of Canada is further north as compared to the United States therefore the harvest season falls earlier in Canada.

This year it is just the five of us gathering in Summerville, South Carolina.  It is great to have Abigail home from College and Selimah home from private school in New York.

We worshipped at Saint Paul’s Summerville this morning and heard a solid sermon from Doug Gray on the importance of memory and its connection to thanksgiving.

#8 LM
Grenada apparently, but for different reasons.

In the UK we have no official holiday - the closest is Harvest Festival in which we thank God for his bounty, something which works on a number of levels.

Larry: Canada observes Thanksgiving, but on the second Monday in October. Shorter growing season, earlier holiday.