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Thanksgiving in Our Home and a JCPenney Giveaway! #JCPenneyLatino #RealLatinoHolidays

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This is part of a sponsored collaboration with Latina Mom Bloggers and JCPenney.  However, all opinions expressed are my own.

JCPenny

Thanksgiving in our home has always been about food and family. “It is the one day of the year that revolves around the meal.” my father used to say.That is true and I usually get up early and start the turkey. Then we head out to the parade that our town does and enjoy being together for a while. In fact one year we went to my brothers and watched their parade since my nephew was going to be in it (shown below.)

 

Parade

Then when we get back home we work on our gingerbread house. Now there is nothing special about it because the kids go crazy but it it ours and a lot of love goes into making it. After dinner that afternoon we usually spend some time watching holiday classics then that night we watch the lighting of the tree in the town square and come home to put our own tree up.

 Gingerbread House

JCPenney has chosen real choir singer, boys and girls, to be part of the JCPenney choir to  tell the stories of their multicultural families and how they experience holidays in the US.  Using the voice of real people and families they wanted to share the spirit of Christmas. That is, the very real spirit that lives in Latino homes in the U.S in a celebration of real-life Holiday traditions. I am so pleased to tell you that  JCPenney is the first retail brand to celebrate what a REAL Christmas is like for Latinos through stories told  by Latino children and their families in a series of short videos. Check out one of the first videos below:

Stay tuned for even more of these very special and  fabulous videos.

Connect with JCPenney

You can learn more about JCPenney by visiting their website at: http://www.jcpenney.com/. Be sure to Like JCPenney Latino on Facebook as JCPenney takes the time to celebrate Latino families and help them find things that make their holidays special.

Win It

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  5. We met in family, share Christmas dinner, we do exchange gifts and organize a posada, sing carols and break a piñata!

  9. The first tweet in the Rafflecopter is too big,and I did not know how to make it smaller. I used the tweet at the bottom of form. I hope this is alright. My Holiday Traditions, is to have dinner at home with my family, and then the rest of the family makes a dessert, and we all end up at my sister’s house with our desserts and we try different ones. We have a blast listening to Christmas music, and even the neighbors bring dessert and join in.

  10. Usually the same person cooks (used to be my grandma) and I always thought it might be best to take turns but it never changes, lol. The meal is most important and everyone brings a little something too.

  13. With little to no money for Christmas the last many years one of the things I look forward to the most is looking at the lights. My hubby, me and the dog pile into the van with some snacks and hot cocoa and go to a little village near here and look at all of the homes decorated with lights. It really helps us forget our troubles if just for a little while.

  14. I have an odd one…we like to watch Seven Brides for Seven Brothers the day we decorate the house for Christmas. I don’t even know how that tradition got started, but it’s stuck.

  15. dad always makes the turkey and stuffing from an old recipe and it is delicious. for christmas we have ham and always open one present the night before christmas

  16. We celebrate making dinner and spending time with a few relatives and friends have in USA.

  19. We do Christmas Eve at my sisters house and Christmas Day at my house. We have a big brunch after we open gifts.

  20. We make a turkey and have an early dinner. Then we nap a little and see about putting up the tree and decorations. If we don’t, we do it the following week unless we get a real tree and then we do it a little closer to Christmas.
    Diana C

  21. One that we do each year is the Rudolph Kiss! During the night on Christmas Eve, we put a small red lipstick dot on each kids hand. Its Rudolph Kiss! In the morning the kids are so excited to see their kiss from Rudolph!

  24. I bake Christmas cookies with my sister-in-law. We’ve been doing this for several years and it’s so much fun.

  26. We unwrap new pajamas on Christmas eve so we can look nice in our once a year new jammies for Christmas morning.

  29. We usually have dinner at my grandmas and she cooks for like 100 ppl when there is only like 30 ppl there