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Two Simple Steps to Your Best Thanksgiving

By: Denise Jelinek November 15th, 2026

Denise Jelinek offers a two-step plan to ensure that holidays revolve around relationships and not simply food. Do you want to trade in the cultural stressed-out, food frenzy and instead experience Thanksgiving (and the surrounding days) as God intended? If so, I invite you to try out the two steps I use to create a simple yet celebratory Thanksgiving! Below, I’ve outlined my own Thanksgiving plan (which includes a 3-day stay at my parents’ home with my husband and two teenage sons) that you can use to create the kind of holiday you actually look forward to.