We hear mostest countries have a day to give thanks. It usually has something to do with harvest time, when farmers and gardeners give thanks for bountiful crops, so we all eat a lot. In the United States of Abearica, our day is called Thanksgiving, and it is always the fourth Thursday in November – tomorrow! We had beary good crops this year, but it is more than that. God takes beary good care of us, so we like to have a special day to thank him.

Most of the tradition, now, has to do with eating lots of stuff and watching parades (cuz we celebrate Santa's arrival) and football games. Tomorrow is the firstest time, since we've been born, that our Eagles are gonna play football on Thanksgiving.

Now making lots of things to eat requires lots of preparation. Our turkey was bought on Monday to give it three days to thaw before roasting it. Of course, we also bought all the other ingredients for the meal on Monday, too. That meant we all had to figure out the menu to make a shopping list to get everything we don't already have.

Here's our menu:

Thanksgiving Menu

Roast Turkey

Gravy

Brown Rice Stuffing with Apples, Raisins, & Walnuts

Baked Carrots Apples and Onions

 Fresh Green Beans Almandine

Brussel Sprouts

Sweet Potatoes

Mashed Potatoes

Cranberry Sauce

Pickled Tomatoes

Biscuits

Pumpkin Pie

Hotdogs

Does it look like too much to eat and beary fattening? It really isn't! The hotdogs are for us, and the rest is mostly veggies on the side. Mommy and Daddy need to watch what they eat, so we make beary big portions, to add the leftovers into aluminum containers, for easy dinners. We have our first leftover dinner the next night, a'cuz it's just so good the first night. Then Mommy divides the rest into as many dinners as possible, leaving the bones to make turkey soup and turkey stock. Even the pumpkin pie is sugar-free and low calorie. Daddy's diabetes test shows low readings the next day, a'cuz they have small portions of everything. (We, of course, have big portions of everything, and we eat the turkey hotdogs! Kehehehehehe)

Since it's a lot of cooking, some of it can be made today. Daddy helped Teddy make homemade cranberry sauce with orange peel and juice. Yummer! Mommy helped Spaulding make whole-wheat biscuits. They are so good nice and warm with butter on top! Yummer!