November

Featured monthly suggestion:

Thanksgiving

Choose from a full-custom video or a Holidaygram – a branded, animated slideshow celebrating this month’s featured theme.

• For full-custom: upload video footage and photos through RemyGo and/or Hightail. Remember to add notes when you upload!

• For a Holidaygram (shown above): upload PHOTOS ONLY through RemyGo and/or Hightail. Make sure to use the word “Holidaygram” in your description. To have your Holidaygram ready to post on Thanksgiving, please submit your photos by November 20th. Otherwise submit at your convenience and we will produce a video after the holiday.

Additional Full-Custom Recording Ideas

Days to Celebrate (2025):

• National Family Caregivers Month
• 1st: All Saints Day
• 2nd: Daylight Saving Time Ends
• 4th: Candy Day
• 4th: Election Day
• 8th: National STEM Day
• 11th: Veterans Day (residents tell their military stories)
• 13th: World Kindness Day
• 15th: America Recycles Day
• 27th: Thanksgiving Day
• 28th: Black Friday

Suggested Questions

Thanksgiving:

• Tell us about your Thanksgiving family traditions. How did your family celebrate?
• Did you have Thanksgiving in the same place every year? Or did you travel?
• Do you have a big family? Tell us more about them.
• Is watching football a Thanksgiving tradition?
• What is your favorite part about Thanksgiving?
• What will you be most thankful for this Thanksgiving?
• What’s been the happiest moment of your life so far?
• What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
• If your great great grandchildren watch this video years from now, is there any wisdom you’d want to share with them?
• If you could honor one person in your life–living or dead–by listening to their story, who would that be? What would you ask them and why?

Fall Weather:

• What is your favorite part about fall?
• Have you ever lived in a town where the leaves change?
• Is autumn your favorite season? If so, why?
• Would you rather go out for a walk during fall, or stay inside?
• Do you have a special book for indoor reading on chilly autumn days?

Learn About Your Residents:

• How old are you?
• Do you have any siblings? How many?
• Tell me about your parents.
• Are you or have you ever been married? Tell me about your spouse.
• Do you have any children? How many? What are their names?
• Did you serve in the military? What branch? For how long?
• Where were you born? Were you raised there too?
• What is your fondest memory as a child or an adult?
• Did you take vacations with your children? Where? Favorite spot?
• What do you feel is your greatest accomplishment so far in life?
• What advice would you give newlyweds? New parents?
• What is the best advice you’ve ever been given?

Food and Recipes:

• Do you have a secret family recipe?
• What is your favorite and least favorite food at Thanksgiving?
• Did you serve any unique foods?
• What is your favorite dessert? Pumpkin Pie? Pecan Pie?

Parenting Lessons:

• What is the best advice you’ve ever given your children/grandchildren?
• What is an important lesson you learned from your parents?
• Is there any advice you’d like to pass on to future generations of your family?
• Were you a strict parent? How so?
• What is your favorite part about being a parent or grandparent?
• What advice would you give to your forty-year-old self?
• Looking back at your life thus far, what are you most proud of?