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Re: So share your Thanksgiving plans/ideas


@2blonde wrote:

@Mominohio   As a single person, I'm typically a nomad on Thanksgiving.  I could end up at my best friend's house or my sister's house.  Either way, I don't have to cook!  BTW, if those two options should fall through, I think I'm within driving distance of your house, right??  Cat Surprised


 

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You come on down too!

 

The guest list is growing!

 

And I thought I didn't have plans! LOL

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Well, um, honestly, I like Thanksgiving at my home with just my family.  However, that does not seem to work anymore.  My daughter in law's parents visit from out of state, and I don't want that many people at my house.  Plus her mother is a good cook (and I am not) so I don't need the stress of her watching me and wanting to help. So they have their Thanksigiving at my son and DIL's house, which is fine.  However, if we say we will have our own dinner and come over their place for dessert, they get all bent out of shape.  Their house is not big enough and it just is not comfortable or relaxing there.  Then there is my sister, her husband, and my Mom to deal with.  Last year I suggested my sister have it for just a few of us and she got all weirded out an said no.  A few years ago my sister, her husband, and my Mom went to my son's for dinner and we stayed home for our own, which was kind of strange that they were at my son's house when we were not there.  Thanksgiving used to be my favorite holiday.  Now it just seems to be stressful.  Maybe I can talk my husband and our other two sons to get out of town for the holiday.

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I'll be at the beach. Since I don't like/won't eat a lot of the "traditional" Thanksgiving foods, those won't be on the menu. I typically go to the fish market the day before and get whatever looks good that day, usually stone crab or shrimp. I fix it whenever I feel hungry enough to eat. 

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Re: So share your Thanksgiving plans/ideas

Paramour & I will be spending pre-Thanksgiving & Thanksgiving  at a casino w/my baby brother & his flavor of the month.  

BB wants to do a room service Thanksgiving feast instead of going to a restaurant.   Fine w/me since he & paramour are paying.  I love being catered to.  Smiley Very Happy

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This year, just like last year, is going to be.....going to be.... well, I don't know what to say. 

My family is very small, as is my husband's. 

We'll take my family first. My oldest nephew isn't coming home for Thanksgiving. He lives on the West Coast.  My sister is currently out of the country, halfway around the world, for work for several weeks. She'll get home the week before Thanksgiving. Then, she's leaving again the day before Thanksgiving To go to Europe with my youngest nephew, for pleasure. So, Thanksgiving with my family is out.

 

My husband's family is also very small. My oldest stepson lives about an hour and a half away from us. He won't come for the holiday. Never does.  My husband's nephew and his wife had life threatening illnesses develop last October. The nephew is bedridden and has round the clock care, at home. The wife has an extremely restrictive diet because of the illness and multiple surgeries she had. So, no go there. 

My other stepson lives local and they would come to be nice to us.  His wife is vegan (fairly recent).  I am not up to cooking a vegan friendly meal for 4 people and one child. Besides, they always go to her family for dinner Thanksgiving night so there's really no need for us to do Thanksgiving here. 

So, the end to my long tale is that my husband and I are staying at home and having grilled cheese sandwiches and I will get my husband a pumpkin pie and I will get myself a piece of cheesecake from Publix and that, my friends, is Thanksgiving for us this year. Pitiful to be honest. 

I'm really at a point in my life where I don't care for holidays anymore. I really don't. I don't care if they're major holidays or minor, like today. I could do without them. 


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Re: So share your Thanksgiving plans/ideas

I don't have any firm Thanksgiving plans yet, it's only 10/14.  I'm just beginning to give it some thought now.  I haven't invited anyone yet so I don't know how many I will have.  I just know that this year, I'm not going to do a buffet.  

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This Thanksgiving is going to be different. I always cook, but this year my hubby has to work 3-11. He doesn't want me to have an early dinner, then he will be in a turkey coma at work. My daughter, son in law and granddaughter go to his side of the family every year. My younger son can go to his girlfriend's mom's house. That leaves my older son and I. Maybe a family member will take pity on us and invite us over. If not we'll figure something out.

 

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I'm the matriarch of the family, also everyone wants mine. 

I'll be dancing with a 25 pound turkey (my DS and I are INSANE over turkey leftovers AND turkey sandwiches!!!), stuffing baked and inside the turkey, rice, green beans, glazed carrots, and roasted fresh mixed vegetables, yeast rolls, and pumpkin pie with homemade whipped cream drizzled with kahlua.

Cranberry sauce.

 

I don't know why rice was always served with this dinner.  Stuffing is already a starch.  I never serve more than one starch in a meal.

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Have had mostly traditional Thanksgivings, some large, some smaller, some at relative's homes, some out in restaurants, depending what stage of life...and all very nice.  But I did have one non-traditional one that was fun, with a girlfriend, back in the 90's, we took a trip to Disney World. Happened to fly right on Thanksgiving day; they served turkey sandwiches on the plane, lol. Not exactly like home...however we had a lot of fun on the four day trip.  I think it's fun to "go rogue" for the holidays now and then, and actually have wanted to do that for Christmas for years now, just escape all the madness, go somewhere with bf and celebrate it quietly...but I'm an only child with a 91 y.o. mom in assisted living, and not going to leave her at this time.  Maybe sometime in the future. Smiley Happy

 

Anyhow....I think your plan sounds like a lot of fun, just for a change....hope it works out if that's what you decide to do!

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i'm going into hibernation on 11/1....to avoid holiday stress....see you all in January....