Are you ready for Thanksgiving this year? Organize your holiday season now so that you can enjoy more time savoring the season with family and friends. Use our new The Holy Mess Printable Thanksgiving Planner to make this holiday your best one yet.
With this beautiful planner, you will enjoy the busy holiday season organized and efficient instead of stressed and scattered. Meal prep will be organized by the hour for the big holiday meal, and you will have plans for your Black Friday (or Cyber Monday) shopping ready to go.
What’s awesome about this planner is that you can save your plans and use it again next year, so you don’t have to re-invent your meal plan and shopping list every holiday.
The Holy Mess Printable Thanksgiving Planner
The Holy Mess Printable Thanksgiving Planner includes the following:
Daily Thanks One Word Journal – Focus on what really matters this season.
Offer Thanks – Important ways your family will plan to give back this season.
Guest list – Be prepared for the big meal and holiday gatherings.
Cooking and Baking – Get one step ahead by planning exactly what you will make.
Thanksgiving Advanced Prep Schedule – You’ll be so much more efficient if you do as much advanced preparation as possible.
Thanksgiving Shopping List – Go to the store organized.
Thanksgiving Day Hour by Hour – Plan ahead so your guests are not waiting for hours for the turkey to finish!
Black Friday shopping plan – Use this to plan your shopping for Black Friday or Cyber Monday and save time and money.
The Holy Mess Printable Thanksgiving Planner
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What’s your best tip for organizing your Thanksgiving celebrations? Post it in the comments below.
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My family has expanded over the years. I work as an Advocate for developmentally- and physically-disabled young adults. Some of “my” kiddos have been my clients for a decade; blurring boundaries becomes a reality in a very small town in a rural county. My husband and I have provided these kids with the most stability they’ve had in their lives. Unfortunately, with CoVID, a number of these young adults (mid-20s) became, quite literally, orphaned. So, they now call me Ma, and my husband, Bud (??? His name is Keith!!!). Twice a month, we have family Sundays (food, games, movies, etc.), and every holiday they come home.
So, bringing the train back to the Thanksgiving station: When this first started, I asked each kid to come up with one dish, a single holiday food memory that they could recall that was positive, and promised I’d include it, so they knew they were well and truly welcome. My son’s mother was Native – he remembered fry bread always being a part of their tradition, before things became rocky with his folks. So, I asked around to a group of Native Nanis (mothers) and got “THE RECIPE” and it’s as much a part of the meal as my husband’s Norwegian mother’s lefse. One of my gals remembered (after several incarnations we got it right!) a sweet potato dish (Brown Betty!); took her a few tries to remember browned marshmallows on top, but I’m sticking with, “She likes sweet potatoes and didn’t mind being my Guinea pig one bit!” lol My other gal cannot have a holiday without green-bean casserole WITHOUT cream/mushroom soup (MUST. BE. HOMEMADE.). ‘Sokay. These are little asks. These kids have lost so much. These are small things to keep hope, to keep memories alive.
Anyway, my Thanksgiving tip: Keep it simple. Keep it about the memories. Keep it inclusive. For my little rag-tag bunch, I DON’T spend hours doing a turkey. Sometimes I’ve slow-cooked a boneless turkey breast overnight, shredded it, made gravy, and served over mashed potatoes (plus all the accoutrements). One year, it was mild, and we grilled steaks. Was it nontraditional, with fry-bread, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and lefse? Absolutely! Would we do it again?! ABSOLUTELY!!! The kids share their memories, their laughter, and prove that family is what you make it. And we are a family.
Thanks much for your post – apologies for the length of the post. Have a blessed Thanksgiving, to all who read this, and to you for posting! Yours very sincerely, ~Chrissie Odeen
Thank you for this great freebie. I would love to buy your Christmas planner with your Thanksgiving planner but I am a 100% NSC veteran and my husband is 30% SC disabled veteran and with his Social Security and $829 VA pension and right now even $0.99 is above our pension right now.
Thank You again for the Thanksgiving planner.