Thanksgiving, Time for Family and Friends

Thanksgiving is a time for togetherness... it's an occasion to be spent in the warm and loving company of family, loved ones and friends enjoying turkey roast and pumpkin pies with them. Thanksgiving is also an opportunity to renew the ties that bind us with the ones we love... it is a time for remembering, cherishing and being thankful for all the good things you have been blessed with. So it's time to say 'Happy Thanksgiving'

Just two more weeks, friends! I'm sure you are almost done with your thanksgiving preparation. Good, if you have sent your thanksgiving invitations and done with the thanksgiving feat planning. But have you ever spare a thought on coming up with some special attraction? How about some great Thanksgiving movies?

Here's a list of the top ten Thanksgiving movies:

• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
• Alice's Restaurant
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• The Ice Storm
• What's cooking
• Tadpole
• Pieces of April
• The Myth of Fingerprints
• Hannah and her Sisters
• Home for the Holidays

Keep the Thanksgiving spirit scaled held high with some of the fun filled Thanksgiving movies.

Thanksgiving Turkey Low in Stock in Food Bank!

With Thanksgiving approaching fast, I am sure you're ready to roast your thanksgiving turkeys. But have you ever spared a thought about the down trodden section of the turkey population? Kate Lombardo, the Executive Director of Food Bank says that Food Bank Lower Fairfield County in Connecticut is running a shortage of turkeys for this Thanksgiving. While the food Bank had 1400 turkey at this time in 2006, this year it has only five turkeys on November 2nd in the late afternoon to distribute to needy families for Thanksgiving. “Oil is up”, said Lombardo and with this slumping economy the past donors are not as generous this year. With the present stock of only 5 turkeys the agency has to go a long way to meet the need of 3000 turkeys for Thanksgiving 2007.

Send Turkey Day eCard

If you've already prepared the Thanksgiving budget, then it's for sure that you have also chalked out the Thanksgiving dinner plan or Thanksgiving party plan. Whether you know it or not, it's now the perfect time to spare a thought over the Thanksgiving Invitation issue. Otherwise you will be too late and may end up with mess in haste, when it comes to the Turkey Day. Just follow a few simple steps to mark a name of yourself in the hearts of your special Thanksgiving guests.

• Decide how many people you can afford. Considering your pre-formulated budget and the space are of utmost importance.
• Make a list of the guests that you want to invite to join you at your Thanksgiving feast.
• Decide whether you want to include kids in your Thanksgiving party or adults only. If you are going to invite kids you may have to be very selective regarding food and make necessary arrangements for some games and fun.
• As soon as you've prepared the list, give it a second glance as you may want to exclude somebody or replace somebody with any other person.
• Spare a thought on Thanksgiving invitation cards. This is the most neglected part of the story, despite of its immense importance. No point wasting time good idea to invite people online using the pre-designed invitation e-cards. and money in making your own invitation cards, since it's a
• Choose the one that suits your Thanksgiving celebration theme and see what wonder you can make by this. A suggestion I would have is the following FREE website www.Evite.com. They have some invitations and e-cards

How to Make Thanksgiving Wreath?

You can have a lot of fun on Thanksgiving. But more fun comes with the planning rather than the event itself. It doesn't matter whether it's making a plan for Thanksgiving decorations or Thanksgiving dinners or other Thanksgiving activities. So, I was thinking about making stuff like special thanksgiving decorations today.

How do you make a Thanksgiving wreath? It's not all that a big deal. But it's really an awesome idea to make a thanksgiving wreath by yourself because it saves you a lot of money. Plus you'll be ready for Christmas!

Requirements:

• Grapevine wreath
• Glue gun
• Glue Flowers (Artificial cloth sunflowers should be your choice)
• Ribbon Indian corn (Plastic corn that you can find in the local craft stores)
• Wood Pine Cones (You can get these at your local parks. Just pick the medium ones)
• Plastic pumpkins (Sizes should not be uniform, but pick the small ones.)
• Stuffed animal (You can find these in the local craft stores. Small to medium ones would be the perfect pick)

Direction:
Step 1: Start off with the grapevine wreath. Attach the small stuffed bears on the wreath first so that you will have an idea what else to put and where to give it an elegant look. You can glue a small piece of wood onto the wreath to fix the bear onto the wreath. Fix the bear in such a way that it doesn't fall off the wreath.

Step 2: Fix the pumpkins onto the wreath by gluing them well so that they don't fall off.

Step 3: Fix the sunflowers all around the wreath in a way that it gives a very decent look. If you want you can use other flowers along with the sunflowers. But then, you need to pay extra attention to the color combination.
Step 4: Give final touches by using the ribbons. Make some of the beautiful bows all along the circumference of the wreath or you can make one large bow.

You are now ready with your beautiful Thanksgiving wreath. Place it on your entrance to greet your special Thanksgiving guests.

Thanksgiving Recipes: Pumpkin Pie

A Thanksgiving feast is incomplete without food, wine and ofcourse pumpkin pie which adds the final touch of sweet but zestful splendor. Take a look:

• Perfect Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin
• 1 (14 ounce) can Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust

Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Whisk pumpkin, EAGLE BRAND®, eggs, spices and salt in medium bowl until smooth. Pour into crust. Bake 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F and continue baking 35 to 40 minutes or until knife inserted 1 inch from crust comes out clean. Cool. Garnish as desired. Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.

• Pumpkin Toffee Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust
• 3/4 cup toffee baking bits
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 3 eggs

As you can see Thanksgiving is a day when you can have a lot of fun if you plan accordingly. This entry was extremely rewarding for me and I am planning on having a great time myself. I do have many things to give thanks to but the one thing that I am more thankful for is, the opportunity to be here at this time writing this message and be able to be of help. Thank you so very much for all your support.

Please don’t forget to comeback next month for great information.