Celebrity Celebrity Family Celebrity Kids Mindy Kaling Has Perfect View of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Son Spencer and Daughter Kit On Thursday, the 'Never Have I Ever' creator shared a carousel of photos from her family's holiday celebration By Hannah Sacks Hannah Sacks Hannah Sacks is a writer/reporter for the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since May 2023. Her work has previously appeared in The Toy Insider, The Toy Book, The Pop Insider, and Saratoga Living. People Editorial Guidelines Published on November 24, 2023 12:30PM EST Mindy Kaling's daughter Kit and son Spencer. Photo: Mindy Kaling/Instagram Mindy Kaling is expressing her gratitude for her family of three this Thanksgiving. On Thursday, the Never Have I Ever creator, 44, shared a carousel of photos from her family's holiday celebration, which featured her 5-year-old daughter Katherine "Kit" Swati and her son Spencer Avu, 3. "Happy Thanksgiving everyone! So grateful for these turkeys! 🥰❤️🦃 Hope you’re having a wonderful day with your family!" Kaling captioned the photos, which were tagged at Manhattan's Pierre Hotel. The first photo shows the back of both of her children's heads as they look out the window while the second shows a view of Central Park below. Mindy Kaling's daughter Kit and son Spencer on Thanksgiving. Mindy Kaling/Instagram Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Kaling also shared snippets of their day on Instagram Stories, including another photo of the children in which they can be seen wearing matching blue and white pajamas as they look down on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade below. Mindy Kaling Instagram. Mindy Kaling/Instagram Another photo shows a picture of a half-eaten donut with pink icing and sprinkles, which Kaling wrote was the family's "Thanksgiving Breakfast." The trio's Thanksgiving dinner looked more hearty, with Kaling sharing an overhead shot of her plate, featuring turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, Brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, stuffing and sweet potato casserole. Mindy Kaling Shares Peek at Trick or Treating with Son Spencer and Daughter Kit on Halloween In October, Kaling shared some adorable photos of her two kids on her Instagram Story as they celebrated Halloween. For the holiday, daughter Kit dressed up as Princess Tiana from Disney's The Princess and The Frog, while son Spencer went as a firetruck. The family enjoyed trick or treating together, with Kaling donning a Cookie Monster mask for the outing. While appearing on the iHeartPodcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi in September, the comedian and actress chatted with host Bruce Bozzi about what led her to want to become a mother. "My kids are such a huge part of my life and I knew growing up, I was always obsessed with romantic love and obsessing about boys," Kaling said. "Even when I was like, 13 or 14 years old. I was never someone that boys wanted to date or do anything with, so it sort of made the passion and interest more intense, if that makes sense." "I was very boy-crazy with zero success, so I had this pent-up interest. I always, you know, a lot of projects I write and work on are about women who are obsessed with marriage. Both because I relate to it and because I think it's really funny." "And there is also a desperation to it that is, you know, makes you incredibly unhappy. And in my 20s, wanting to find someone, anyone, to settle down with," Kaling told Bozzi. "But I feel blessed because I was also, if equal to my desire to find a man, I wanted to have children. And that intensified when my mother died," she later revealed. "Because for me, I was like I don't want to be on my death bed, hopefully in my comfortable hospital room or even better, in my own home, and not have anybody around my bed." "I want there to be kids and I want there to be grandkids. And that to me was way more important than these other sort of shallow things of like, 'I want my six-bedroom house in the Palisades and my kids going to school with my husband who's a surgeon.'" "That was all important to me but the thing that was the most important to me was this relationship with my phantom children that I didn't have," Kaling added. Close