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s/o Thanksgiving poll
I know it's more than a month away still, but krazykitty's post made me think about Thanksgiving. So here's a little poll:
1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends?
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH?
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting.
Re: s/o Thanksgiving poll
1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? We'll go to whichever family member offers to host this year. My entire extended family lives in the area and every year someone different offers to host.
2. Do you have to alternate Thanksgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? Nope, DH's side of the family has never been big into holidays so it works out great for me! We used to fly out and visit with his mom for Thanksgiving, but she told us we could stop since flights are so expensive and crazy then.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. Nope, never hosted Thanksgiving but we have hosted Christmas four years in a row now. DH requested that we take a break this year and let someone else in the family do it
The two things that make hosting 18ish people a success for us is (1) planning up the wazoo and (2) making it semi-potluck so you're not making all the food.
One year when we hosted I had so much going on and had made so much food that I actually left one of the desserts (a chocolate mousse) in the refrigerator and forgot to serve it. I was so sad because they were made from scratch and were so pretty!
1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? ... DH and I have no relatives here, and since most of our friends are either celebrating with their family or gone on vacation, DH and I usually end up just relaxing on that long weekend. We usually go to Half Moon Bay on Thanksgiving day, buy some fresh crabs at the port, steam them at home, and spend the afternoon eating them.
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? ... n/a.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. ... Never.1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? The plan was to go to MIL's house that is 5 miles away. She was laid off this week so I don't know if she will be up for hosting it. We will see.
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? N/A. My family is scattered around the globe so we don't get to do turkey day with them.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. We hosted 2 years ago and it was a disaster. FIL insisted on smoking the turkey 2 hours after dinner was supposed to be served, it still wasn't ready. I had a cranky infant and FIL didn't get to spend time with her because he also insisted on cooking the bird at his gf's house. I will NEVER host again until FIL is off on his round the world boat tour and not around to annoy me like that again. DH's family LOVES smoked turkey and I hate it but I live with it.
1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? We are probably having an American style Thanksgiving with our chosen family and friends here in NZ. We might have multiple get-togethers with other American expats.
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? When we lived in the USA, we'd alternate. It was a pain b/c we had to travel to my parents' house in so cal.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. Not for people in the states. We have a thanksgiving here every year...mostly b/c I like turkey and mashed potatoesIt's become our Thanksgiving tradition to go to Vegas to be with Dh's parents. My mom (and sometimes my aunt) join us there. For T-day dinner, we go to Brazillian BBQ (several of us don't really like Turkey).
I would much rather host than travel but DH's parents work T-day. I have then hosted T-dinner the weekend after for friends at our house.
We do not alternate holidays. DH's family gets Thanksgiving and mine gets Christmas (but this year we plan to stay home for Christmas so everyone has to come to us). I have tried to have DH's family celebrate 'Christmas' MLK weekend (ILs all have not been available for Christmas due to work...restaurant and bowl game coordinator) but they all end up opening presents early and it hasn't worked. (besides, it was a pain to keep things decorated and looking nice until the end of January)
My biggest problem with hosting (anything) is that I can't seem to just keep it simple. I want EVERYTHING and it's overwhelming. If you can stick to the real basics (and not have, for example, 3 kinds of stuffing) it makes things MUCH easier.
1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? Right now our plans are all wonky. We are going to Fresno for Thanksgiving day like always, but the people planning my high school reunion haven't yet finalized whether it is going to be the day before or day after Thanksgiving. I wish they would finalize the date so we can plan our travel accordingly.
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? We decided long ago to do Thanksgiving with DH's family and Christmas with my family which pisses some people off but works better for us. It is easier for us to travel for Thanksgiving than Christmas due to our work schedules.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. I have never hosted (thank goodness!).
1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? Normally, we always go to DH's parents house and do Thanksgiving with them, DH's brothers, their SO's, kids, etc. This year, both of DH's brothers are going to be with their SO's families for the holidays, so we agree with our IL's that they'll come to us this year. So we're hosting, for the first time ever!
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? Thankfully, no, we don't have to alternate any holidays because my parents don't celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter, and my IL's don't do Rosh Hashana, Hanukkah or Pesach, unless one side is invited to the other side for their holidays
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. As mentioned above, never hosted before and this year is our first time (hence why I asked for some tips and stories!) If it's anything like hosting another big dinner/event, I know I will be researching, ordering, planning a couple of weeks in advance, and cooking/baking what I can ahead of time. I only have to feed five people, so I'm not too worried about how much I have to cook. I am a little worried about cooking a turkey for the first time; I may delegate that to DH because of gross-factor.1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? We are hosting this year, Dh's parents and grandmother are coming over. I'm also trying to get my BFF to stop by, cut the tension. My grandparents may come, but they usually go to Florida.
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? In the past, we have only gone to Dh's parents, because my grandparents go to Fl and my dad lives in Fl so he isn't an issue. But they are getting older so we may have to alternate who we host at some point in the future.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. Nope. Worse case scenario, I pull a frozen lasagna out of the freezer1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year - since we bought a house in March, DH wants to host it at our place. I'm not sold on the idea yet because we have the crappiest table and I've never cooked a whole turkey before. If he's wanting to, maybe I can ask MIL to handle the turkey and I'll take care of the side dishes. or we'll go to his parents house. My side of the family is scattered so we aren't all together in one place.
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? Nope but I know if we wanted to go to my uncle and aunts 30 minutes away we could do both, but I only eat once on Thanksgiving. I'm not the two dinner kind of person.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Nope, not yet.
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1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? We are hosting it here with both our families. This is the 1st time I'll be hosting and the first time our families will spend a holiday together. We decided this because it's the 1st holiday since FIL died and MIL doesn't want to do it at her place for this reason (too hard emotionally to be in their house and she doesn't cook much). My mom has a terrible oven that she can't afford to replace so they were fine coming here, too. So we'll be 11 people in our little apt... should be interesting!
2. Do you have to alternate Thanksgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? Well, like I said this is the 1st time our families will celebrate anything but our wedding or a funeral together. Normally we go to both places. My family lives in Fresno and his in San Ramon so we would usually trade off who would get the actual holiday and then the other side would get a day very close because we couldn't go to both places in one day. When my parents divorced and my dad was still alive we actually had to go to 3 places: my dad/grandparents, my mom and then DH's family. My dad died right after we got engaged in '04 but it wasn't until my grandma died in '07 that we started doing holidays with my grandpa and my mom together.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. This will be my 1st time hosting Thanksgiving. It will be interesting to have both families spend time together since they haven't much.Donate to My Pancreatic Cancer Research Page
This year is going to be AWESOME! Why? Because we are hosting TG in our new home!! Actually, we will be hosting two of them. One with my family and one with DH's. I am very excited for many reasons:
1) I can make the food I want
2) I only need to hear the IL's bitching for a limited time b/c it is my house.
3) I can be in my pjs if I want to b/c it is my house
I am not going to act like the queen is coming either. I am doing it MY way.
you go girl!!
1. What are your/DH's plans for Thanksgiving this year -- going somewhere, staying home, celebrating with certain family members or friends? As always, we'll head up to the Bay Area for Thanksgiving on Saturday. I always end up working Black Friday, so that rules out T-giving day.
2. Do you have to alternate Thankgiving with different parts of your family? Is that an inconvenience for you/DH? No, because my family is several states away.
3. Have you ever hosted Thanksgiving? Give us a tip about making it a success, or share a funny (or not so funny) story about your first time hosting. Never hosted, but we decided to meet halfway in Los Banos once and have Thanksgiving at a restaurant. It sucked.Wahoo!