Parent Coach Susan’s Holiday Traditions

Posted by Susan Epstein on November 25th, 2008 at 04:44pm

I have to say that next to Passover, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love getting together with family without the “gifts”.

I usually look for a story or quote to read at the table before we eat. We stay at the table long after the food is gone and tell stories and jokes. My dad who is 87 tells the best jokes and I swear some of them I have never heard before and others we beg him to tell again and again.

The menu:

• Turkey of course with mom’s stuffing.
• We like real cranberry sauce, not the kind in the can but the real deal.
• Creamed baby onions.
• Candied sweet potatoes made with maple syrup! Yum
• Apple pie.
• A couple of bottles of great wine.
• Pre dinner…it’s usually shrimp and my dad’s famous cocktail sauce.

If it’s cold enough we light a fire in the fire place.

This year we’ll call the kids on skype and maybe have a virtual meal with them…they are in
Germany…

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