Country Acres - November 19, 2021

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1. What are your favorite Thanksgiving holiday traditions? 2. What do you hope your children remember about Thanksgiving when they have families of their own?

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3. What is your favorite

Thanksgiving dish and how do you prepare it?

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1. We get together with our kids and grandkids and we celebrate turkey day. We get together as a family and meet up in Florida every year. We have two daughters down there and the rest of the family packs up and heads down there. The day after Thanksgiving, we go to the Hog Waller Mud Bog and go four-wheeling. 2. That family is important, and a very, very special meal and giving thanks. 3. We have turkey and dressing prepared outside

of the bird. My wife prepares it and I eat it. 4. We have a high noon meal and then just lounge around. At the Florida property, we just sit around the pool and enjoy. 5. Four kids and four grandkids and my wife. It’s very special to get one-on-one time with the family; otherwise, it gets to be a herd and it loses the whole punch.

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5. Who do you join together with for Thanksgiving?

6. How early do you launch into Christmas preparations at your home? Any Christmas traditions that follow immediately on Thanksgiving weekend?

6. My wife has the house decorated by Halloween and the gifts are already wrapped under the tree. She likes to be ahead of the curve. She gets on edge if it’s not done. Having it done early keeps everyone calm as we prepare for the holiday.

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Amy & Darren Michaelis with Lyla, Cora & Hailey Michaelis M & M Lumber | Paynesville 1. Getting together with our family, eating lots of delicious foods, watching football and taking a snooze on the couch, and for Amy, it’s also checking out the Black Friday ads. Amy and her dad love to shop so they always make a daughter/dad day and go shopping Black Friday – not the crazy get up at 4 a.m. and stand in line shoppers but they still like to get out and find some deals. Our family has two Thanksgivings, one with each side of the family, so a few days after the first, we do it all over again and eat some more delicious food, watch more football, take another snooze and, after a full belly, make a trip across the road to the local golf course and we walk through the woods looking for golf balls. Some years we can’t do the hunt because there is snow but the years we can we collect five ice cream pails of balls. 2. We hope that they remember the togetherness and time spent together. Thanksgiving is a time to really focus on what you are thankful for and what really matters to you, and to have it all in one place on Thanksgiving is really special. 3. This question is impossible to answer- it is ALL so good! But if we had to pick our favorites, Amy’s would be the potatoes – prepared any kind of way, whether it be traditional mashed, cheesy, or sweet. We

sometimes make a sweet potato crunch casserole with sweet potatoes, brown sugar, pecans on top and lots of butter. Darren’s favorite is traditional green bean casserole which is always a staple dish on the Thanksgiving table. And, of course, the kids love the pie. 4. Thanksgiving is usually an all-day affair, we eat around noon, watch football, nap, eat again and then end with Black Friday shopping or golf ball hunting. 5. Our family gets together with our parents and siblings. We both come from pretty small families so we can all usually fit around the table – with the exception of the kids, they get to sit at the kid table. It’s important to include our families because they are the people you love most. 6. Well, Christmas happens early at the Michaelis household. I actually have all my decorations and tree up, I put them up the first weekend of November. I used to wait until the day after Thanksgiving, but with 2020 being the year it was I decided to switch it up and put it up early that year and it just stuck, I think from now on I will always put it up early. The decorations take a long time to put up so the longer we get to enjoy them the better. We also love to sit in our living room with our kids in the glow of our fireplace and lights and just relax. There is nothing cozier and it makes us happy. So, we do what makes us happy. edge if it’s not done. Having it done early keeps everyone calm as we prepare for the holiday.

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