"Cate" > wrote in message
...
> "Cineabeagle" > wrote in message
> ...
> > It's my least favorite holiday because we are a family of non-talkers.
> Besides
> > decorating the Christmas tree or watching TV (or having several
> cocktails), can
> > you think of anything that would be entertaining before / during / after
> > dinner?
> > Do you have any "fun" traditions?
>
> I suggest board games or non-board ones like charades, but if yours is not
a
> family of game players, it might feel forced. Last Thanksgiving we had a
> rollicking game of Cranium at my in-laws'. We split up the couples and the
> expertise so no one would feel left out. There are singing, charades, and
> drawing options (something for everyone) and we mixed up the generations
for
> the teams. I lost the game-winning question when my DH's 83 year-old
> grandmother and 12 year-old cousin, my teammates, didn't recognize my
> humming of the Beatles' Yesterday.
>
> But what I'm really writing to ask is do you really decorate your
Christmas
> tree on Thanksgiving?
>

Depending on the weather, we decorate on Thanksgiving, inside, outside, or
both.