Happy Friday! Hope you've had a great week. We have had a good one here. I've been looking forward to sharing my Thanksgiving favorites with you all week. I know that decorating for Thanksgiving is not the popular thing to do, but I will always and forever put out turkeys and pumpkins in November.
It just feels right for November. I've been collecting cute turkeys for years. Trust me. There are a lot of not cute turkeys so you have to do a little hunting. My collection has grown over the years and I look forward to pulling them out every November. I'll link as many of my favorite things as I can at the bottom of this post.
We have yet to decide what we are doing for Thanksgiving. Indiana is having a big spike in COVID numbers so we are trying to be careful. My top priority is keeping the kids healthy so they can stay in school. We'll probably wait until the final days before Thanksgiving to make our plans. That feels very 2020. Wait and see :)
No matter what we'll be having turkey with all the trimmings and focusing on all the things we are thankful for.
Let me show you my Thanksgiving favorites - turkeys and pumpkins sprinkled everywhere. The best turkeys are at the very end of the post. Don't miss them!
Thanksgiving in the family room:
I couldn't resist including a picture of happy, jumping Leo in this tour. Real life :)
A fun Thanksgiving memory. Our 1st Thanksgiving. We lived in Utah and we went on an adventure by ourselves instead of flying home for Thanksgiving. We drove from Salt Lake City to San Francisco. We toured the whole city, wandered into a cute little restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner and went to watch Notre Dame play at Stanford. It was our first holiday all on our own and we quickly learned that we'd always be happy to celebrate the holidays as long as we were together.
Thanksgiving in the kitchen:
I added in turkeys and pumpkins where I could. I love having holiday plates for the kids to use. They're used to me swapping them out monthly or seasonally. When I served Olive's breakfast on a turkey plate yesterday - she said "YAY! It's time for turkey plates!" That made all of my decorating efforts totally worth it.
Thanksgiving for the kids:
We love these books. I put a holiday book basket out for every holiday. The kids love these specially selected books and get really excited to see them come out every year.
We have a running list of things we're thankful for on our chalkboard. We take turns adding things each day.
We can't be the only ones swimming in leftover Halloween candy...
Tell your kids to make a Thanksgiving turkey out of candy. My kids loved it. They had so much fun coming up with the perfect candies for wings, feathers, eyes, etc. It was a really fun, free activity since we had everything on hand.
Do you decorate for Thanksgiving?
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You do such a great job making everything so special for your kids - I wish I had even half of your creativity! I love reading your posts!
ReplyDeleteYour decor is so cute! I’m glad to see T-giving decorations! I still have pumpkins and leaf garlands out. I need to keep my eye out for some cute turkeys too. Where is your fave place to buy them?
ReplyDeleteTruth: I spent three days this week decorating for Christmas, and when I got done I sighed as I realized I missed my fall decor! Ha! I love Thanksgiving decorations and I'm so glad you are enjoying yours! :) Love that picture from your first Thanksgiving - what a sweet memory. <3
ReplyDeleteThat's so much fun when kids notice your efforts to make a holiday fun. Or when you're feeling lazy, and they ask "Where is such-and-such tradition?" Then you know you can't let the tradition die. ;)
ReplyDeleteI love fall and Thanksgiving decor. But this year I didn't decorate because our garage was a mess...
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