Americans - what are your Thanksgiving plans?
I don't have anything to exciting going on - my sister will be putting on the turkey dinner and I will drive out to visit her and the kids. My parents are still undecided on whether they will drive up from Alabama. I hope they do. My roommate and our neighbor are putting on a Thanksgiving for "orphans and people who hate their families" - I don't fit either of those groups but I will pop in for a bit.
You?
I will be pretending that there is no such holiday, coming into the office to work, and using that as a bona-fide excuse to not travel up to New York State where my aunt is waiting to set me up with a nice, religious Muslim boy who doesn't drink, wants to "settle down and start a family" and will either insist on my not travelling for work anymore or accompanying me on any and all trips. Given the options, working is a better call.
I'm gonna give thanks I'm not American!
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My sister is coming over and serving dinner here. She handles the food and I handle the cleanup, which I think is a fair trade. My mother, brother, nieces and nephews and likely my niece's boyfriend will be here. Chances are good a vagabond friend or two will wander in and eat everything good off of the relish tray before wandering off again.
This year I'm not doing anything on the actual day. My parents have their Thanksgiving dinner the weekend before because for some reason they think Cape Cod in the offseason is the best thing ever and they go every year for the long weekend.
For the last 3 or 4 years a couple friends of mine would host a "Thanksgiving for 20 somethings with no family involved" dinner which was nice, but this past summer they moved about two hours away and no one else wants to put in that much effort.
I'm gonna cook. My son, my ex-husband and his little son will probably come to eat for Thanksgiving.
I cook way too much on the years that I cook and I'll need an engineering major to help me put away all the food.
I'll talk to my other 3 children on the phone and wish they were with me. I'll get weepy and take a nap.
I'll wake up hungry and have the most important meal of the holiday: leftovers!
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We'll have around 16-20 total for Thanksgivings. We'll have the big Turkey and maybe a smoked turkey that I will heat on the Grill instead.
Trimmings will be my sister's home made sausage stuffing. Homemade cranberry sauce my wife & daughter make, string beans and corn, some sort of sweet potato thing, salad of course and lots of bread.
There will be homemade pumpkin pies, Cheese cake and pudding pies for desert and maybe brownies or cookies.
There will of course be nuts, fruits, candy, chips and dips. Football will be on in the family room and we will probably serve buffet style again this year. It worked well last year.
Sleep late. Take Chuck for a long walk. Watch Hulu. Read. Eat at Waffle House. Ant be thankful I don't have to put up with any Family.
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Probably help my mom cook dinner, take it all over to the nursing home where we've reserved a meeting room to have dinner with my sister, brother-in-law, niece and father. And then hear about my sister bitching because it's not a proper Thanksgiving Dinner. Then take home the leftovers. Wheee....
I'll do the usual; roast a turkey with stuffing, make giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, and brussels sprouts. Nobody's coming over, so I'll have way too many leftovers. What goes into the freezer will likely stay there for months.
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I'm heading up to my sister's place. We will cook, and I will play with my niece.
My immediate family usually travels over to my Aunt's place where the whole extended family is invited, something like 10-20 people every year. My brother and SOL may go to her parents place this year, but that makes it easier to ensure I will be the one who get's a turkey drumstick.
We'll bring cider and some desserts, and we'll probably leave with some leftovers. Football will be enjoyed by the boys and stories will be shared by the gals.
The only x-factor for me will be whether I'm working the night of or before. Either way I'll be sleepy or nappy.
Hope everyone has a good dinner with people who love them!
Me and the daughter will be at my Mom's house with family, friends-of-family, and random stray people who will hang out long enough to eat and to let their screaming children tear the house apart and give all the grown-ups headaches, and then leave without offering to help clean up.
We're looking at about 15 people, 6 cats, and 3 dogs (including an incontinent weiner dog) in Mom's overheated 985 square foot zoo-smelling house. And I have to work the night before and the night of, but Mom won't accept that for an excuse. I've been racking my brains trying to think of a way to get out of it without hurting her feelings, but I think we're stuck. My husband is agoraphobic and unable to join us, the lucky bastard.
I'll be heading up north to the parents for the weekend. It's 250 miles, but the one holiday we all gather up there for. I host all the other holidays but since they have 20 acres of woods and it's hunting season, they host this one. Since my husband has to work this year, I'm not likely to rate an actual bedroom but will wind up on a couch.
My eldest sister will likely not make it, but a few of her adult children will. The other two sisters will be there and their kids and my idiot brother-in-law. We'll all merrily try to forget about the fight I got into with the idiot brother-in-law last year, there's a high probability drinking will be involved.
One sister will rediscover her valid interest in hunting, just to avoid all the cooking and cleaning up that goes on. The teenaged/adult niecphews will spend time hunting, playing video games and waiting around to laugh at my other sister and I getting drunk and playing cards with Mom and Dad. The obnoxious seven-year-old baby of the family will drive everyone nuts, with his parents mostly ignoring him and then blithely excusing his behavior by saying "but he's just bored!" when it's pointed out to them.
Far too much food will be consumed by everyone, and drinking sister and I will do nearly all the prep and cleaning up. I'll get a lot of time to read and sleep, despite all the kitchen work, as I avoid getting up and going into the nearest town for Black Friday craziness with the rest of them.
My plan is to drink wine. Lots of wine. It makes family gatherings so much more tolerable.
Early Thanksgiving dinner at my grandmother's on Thursday. She's not cooking, though. My cousin is. I don't have high hopes. Then on Friday, we're going to cook a proper, massive feast at home, with all our favorite recipes and a brined turkey.
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It'll be just me and the critters, as always. I'm making an abbreviated dinner with my favorites to share with the dogs & cats. May go to a movie.
I wish it would just pass me by. That and Christmas and New Year's, too.
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