Celebrating Your First Thanksgiving Day with a Spouse

If you are celebrating your first Thanksgiving together with a spouse, you probably want to make it as special and memorable as can be while sharing your first Thanksgiving Day together. Here are some wonderful tips to help make your first Thanksgiving Day together with a spouse run smooth and one you both won't forget.

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Talk to your spouse and find out what family members you both are going to invite as well as your friends. Make a list of all your friends and relatives on both sides that you would like to invite. You can make your first Thanksgiving together small or large, which ever you desire.

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Make some Thanksgiving invitations or you can even try to use evite.com, which has some great Thanksgiving evite invitations. This is a perfect way to invite your family and friends over for your first Thanksgiving with your spouse. They will be happy to celebrate Thanksgiving with the new couple.

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Make a Thanksgiving menu list that includes, drinks, appetizers, turkey, gravy, stuffing, sides, and desserts with your spouse. Next, make a shopping list and start looking in the papers and clipping coupons as you begin to approach Thanksgiving. There are many items for your Thanksgiving meal that go on sale at this time. Make a list of all utensils and pan that you will need for cooking. Be completely prepared. You may even want to make a list of the times you are going to prepare you meal.

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Ask you spouse if there are any traditions that he or she might have while they were growing up. You may want to incorporate your spouse's traditions with your traditions and even make some new ones. Thanksgiving Web has some great ideas for Thanksgiving traditions that include, Thanksgiving Day prayers, Thanksgiving Day turkey, Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day Parade, and more.

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Decorate your table with a Thanksgiving Day festive theme. Disney Family Fun website has some very cool projects for you to make for your Thanksgiving Day tabletops. Some of the crafts for Thanksgiving Day include corn-print place mats, harvest linens, Indian corn napkin rings, and more.

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If you are cooking, ask your spouse to take care of the guests while you are preparing everything as well as entertaining family, friends and any children. Have your spouse be the host for drinks before dinner and making sure all the appetizers are available for everyone to eat.

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If you need some help on how to make a turkey, you can go to Videojug.com and you can see a video on how to make a crispy, golden roast turkey. They will tell you everything you will need and exactly what to do.

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Are you looking for recipes and ideas for stuffing and sides? FoodNetwork.com has some very delicious Thanksgiving recipes that you may want to try. Some other websites that have great recipes are RecipeZaar, or Disney Family Fun website.

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Are you looking for some Thanksgiving Day games or activities for the children that are going to be there? A Kids Heart website has some fun games that include turkey swap game, pin the snood on the turkey game, turkey and dressing, and more. If you are looking for coloring pages for the children to color for Thanksgiving Day, you can find some great Thanksgiving coloring pages at the Disney Family Fun website. They also have printable Thanksgiving Games and Activities that include Thanksgiving Day Bingo that would be fun for everyone.

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After your family and friends leave, plan a quiet evening with your spouse relaxing in front of the fireplace and watching a Thanksgiving movie. Some movies that would be good for Thanksgiving Day are Planes, Trains, and Automobiles starring Steve Martin and John Candy, Miracle of 34^th Street starring Edmund Gwenn and Maureen O'Hara, Pieces of April starring Katie Holmes and Oliver Platt, Home for the Holidays starring Holly Hunter and Anne Bancroft, and What's Cooking? You may even want to wait for November 24, 2009 when there will be new movies releases on DVD including Angels & Demons starring Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer or Four Chritmasas starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. If you would like to see all the DVD releases for November, you can check them out on theMovieInsider.com.