Whether you're looking for a new family tradition to start this holiday season [1] or not, you're about to adopt Deb Mills's family's Thanksgiving tablecloth tradition [2]. Every year since 2000, the members of her family and all of their guests have sat around the Thanksgiving table covered in the same white tablecloth and — in a different color each year — signed their name directly on the cloth.
"It has the names of everyone we've shared Thanksgiving with each year," she wrote in a Facebook post shared to the Love What Matters page. "Each year is a different color [3]. I am so grateful to have the signatures of those who have left us . . . Mom, David's dad, our daughter Mary. It has scribbles of grands and special messages. Everyone signs it at our Thanksgiving and then I embroider it each year and it is quite a treasure to me. Along the edge is a key of what color goes with what year. Thanksgiving is this weekend at our house so we are ready for a new set of signatures."
We can't get enough of this sweet tradition and may or may not be headed out to grab a white tablecloth of our very own right now.