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THANKSGIVING PLANS
What are everyones thanksgiving plans... How does your day pan out, what time do you usually eat, do u have snack trays out during day, do you watch tv movies or what do you do on thanksgiving. First year with DH son so i am trying to figure out what we are going to do.
Re: THANKSGIVING PLANS
This is the year we're avoiding family get-togethers and doing the holidays at home. If they want to come to us, fine.
We plan to sleep in, have Cornish game hen for dinner, and watch football.
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I'm no help. I am hosting my first Thanksiving ever this year. I will have some appetizers out and we will eat around 6.
This year we're going to my parents' -- they live in the same city as us. It's just DH and me, my parents, and my sister and her BF (although they'll probably bouce between his family's place and mine).
The day goes like this: arrive mid-morning, drink a mimosa or two, eat appetizers, watch football, switch to wine, continue eating appetizers, begin to get buzzed as the final dinner preparations are ramping up, continue drinking wine and eating appetizers, serve dinner by which time NO one is hungry since we've been eating and drinking all day, pop some champagne for after dinner, eat 3 pieces of pie (since Mom makes 3 kinds), continue drinking until we all end up snoozing on the couch. Head home or into the guest room. Have wicked hangover the next morning.
I *love* holidays at my parents' house!
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Typically I spend the weekend/days before getting all the desserts ready.
The day of Thanksgiving I get up early and help my mom in the kitchen while we watch the Macys Day Parade. After the parade, my dad, brother and I (and then DH when he joined the family) would go to see a Holiday movie at the theater while my mom got some needed alone time to finish up. We'd come home from the movie and help set the table/get things ready and around 5 all my extended family arrived and we would have dinner, go for a walk, and then have dessert.
This year, since my dad's not around (and he does all the side dishes) I'm going to add side dishes, desserts, and appetizers to my things to do, go to my mom's early and help her do all the cooking. We're not going to the movie - it'd be too hard. Instead just cooking and decorating. And then the extended family will all head over for Thanksgiving dinner and dessert.
I'm cooking and we're having my MIL, mom and sister for dinner. I will be cooking a turkey breast, stuffing, mashpo, string bean casserole, corn, apple cider, coffee and pie.
I cook every year now that MIL has gotten older and can't really do it anymore.
Dinner is usually around 2 or 3 and I pretty much do all the cooking, cleaning and cleaning up.
When we have had my parents and kids here, we baked pies the night before and spent Thanksgiving morning cooking and watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. We almost always have holiday meals around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. That way there is plenty of opportunity to eat leftovers that night.
Now we either go to Disneyland with our oldest daughter and her family, and go out to dinner at a favorite restaurant at Downtown Disney, or we stay home and DH and I fill up on side dishes and desserts. This year my mom is coming to visit, and my daughter and grandsons will be staying with us that week, too. My son in law will make it in time for the holiday, so it should be fun with all of us but my mom enjoying cooking. I think Mom will finally get a chance to just relax and get waited on all day. Son in law'sfamilyis big on football, so he may want to watch, but we aren't big on watching, and we only have one tv. It should be interesting.
It's funny you should mention football. My FIL loved it when we started doing dinner because he was finally able to watch football. When MIL did dinner, the TV wasn't even allowed on. This will be a hard one because FIL passed away just this August.