Do you say grace/pray before Thanksgiving dinner?

[sawyerthedestroyer]

If you don't, what do you do before eating? Just start serving? Go around the table and say what you're thankful for?

I need ideas because we're not really the praying type, but we're hosting this year and starting dinner without some kind of...statement just seems wrong.

[Deleted]

Rub a dub dub
Thanks for the grub

[joenali]

Good food, good meat, good god, let's eat.

[blueballoon]

Nope. We just start digging in.

[rosiedozie]

Nope, we just start eating!

[pixelpassion]

No, unless we're with MIL's parents since they usually like to say grace.

[hopecounts]

We do but we're religious.
As for alternatives why not just a simple statement of we're so glad to have you all here with us and are thankful for you all. Lets eat!

[dragonfly08]

We sit down and dig in. Sometimes the girls want to say what we're thankful for, but it's not a "formal" kind of thing, and we're usually handing around food at the same time.

[bonquiqui]

No, I am not religious.  Even though my parents are Catholic, they are not the out loud kind of praying type.  

[cbwm1]

Only if my grandparents are there.

I think we pray at H's Grandma's house?

I'm athiest, DH is agnostic. So if it's just us, we do nothing.

[speckledfrog]

We do if my dad is hosting. The WORST is having to go around the table and say what you are thankful for. Thankfully we rarely have that. We just thank everyone for coming and then dig in.

[lilafowler]

Nov 17, 2013 18:02:47 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Rub a dub dub
Thanks for the grub

STFU. I always say the little grace and end with this. We're always at my parents and we have a very casual meal.

Lol

Better than at MILs who says a long grace and always ends with "and thank you Jesus for dying on the cross.". Appetite killer

[sewf]

H likes going around and saying what we're thankful for.

My family prays, but it's just from years of Catholic church. Only a few family members still identify as Catholic, but it's kind of in honor of my grandma, who was VERY Catholic. But it just sounds so robotic, and I'm no longer Catholic, so I just bow my head.

[Deleted]

We go around and say something we are thankful for that happened that year. Granted, we only have six attendees max so it doesn't take long.

[lilafowler]

I will also add that my aunt is an honest to goodness real nun and she always cracks up at this!

[eb777888]

No, but we're agnostic, so obviously do not.

H's family is very religious and they do and we respect that.

[UMaineTeach]

we don't, but our meal is more causal; where not everyone is seated at the same time or the same place. We don't say grace before regular meals.

usually my mom or grandmother hosted, but one year my great-grandmother/great-aunt hosted. We never really ate with them before and I totally took a roll and started eating it when it was said we were going to say grace. I held the bite of roll in my mouth and squished up the rest of the roll in my lap through the prayer. oops.

[eb777888]

Nov 17, 2013 18:09:08 GMT -5 @amoosed said:

We go around and say something we are thankful for that happened that year. Granted, we only have six attendees max so it doesn't take long.

I like this. I think we'll start that tradition this year!

[Jalapeñomel]

No, we just eat. 


I did growing up though. 

[papie]

We just say "enjoy everyone!" And start digging.

[RoxMonster]

It depends who we are eating with. If it's my family, we just dig right into the food lol.

With H's family, someone says grace and often times, we have to go around and say what we are thankful for.

[hisno1girl]

We say grace before every meal and do something a little more meaningful on Thanksgiving.

[juliagoulia]

My mom does at her house, and all my in laws do. We do not. We just eat.

[flutterfly]

Yes, my grandfather always does at holiday dinners.

[kaybee85]

Nov 17, 2013 18:02:47 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Rub a dub dub
Thanks for the grub

Yay God. 

[Deleted]

Nov 17, 2013 18:15:31 GMT -5 kaybee85 said:

Nov 17, 2013 18:02:47 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Rub a dub dub
Thanks for the grub

Yay God.

No.

I'm not thanking any god.

I'm thanking the person who prepared the food.

[kaybee85]

We used to until one day when we were all ... Sooo, none of us go to church or anything. Let's just call it a day.

[kaybee85]

Nov 17, 2013 18:18:13 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Nov 17, 2013 18:15:31 GMT -5 kaybee85 said:

Yay God.

No.

I'm not thanking any god.

I'm thanking the person who prepared the food.

Ah, I see. "Yay God" was always how my grandpa ended that one. 

[Deleted]

The truth is I say nothing.

I just thought that rub a dub dub business was funny.

[moolarkey]

We do but then we have a short prayer before every meal we eat at home, we do not pray when in restaurants etc. Our family tradition is to hold hands during the prayer.