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How will you be spending Thanksgiving?
Do you do the same thing every year or do you mix it up?
What T-giving traditions do you have?
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Re: How will you be spending Thanksgiving?
BF's family is coming to stay with us in our very tiny house. We are cooking them dinner, which neither of us has ever done before. I'm hoping my parents let us come there to cook/eat. My mom seems undecided on it right now.
BBE promised me a t-giving dinner cooking timeline but I've seen no such thing yet.
We've done something different each year:
2007: First year in California (had moved from Maryland), went on a cruise to Mexico
2008: Went to a pet-friendly inn in Mendocino, CA
2009: First year back east; spent Thanksgiving with his family
2010: My family
2011: My brother, his girlfriend, and my parents are coming to us. I'm hosting a vegetarian Thanksgiving!
We don't really have any traditions, other than being forced to listen to "Alice's Restaurant" in the car with my dad.
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I don't know yet, whether we are going to do holidays together or what, but usually, I go to my parents' house for the day. The fact that everyone gathers there is really the biggest tradition. I am going to have a hard time compromising on sharing Thanksgiving with my future in-laws. *sniffle*
We always have a few staples: pecan tassies, stuffed mushrooms (usually as an appetizer), my dad makes a baked butternut squash and a roasted green beans/shallots/garlic, mashed potatoes. They mix up the meat every now and then. A few years they've done a roast instead of a turkey. Once they just did a turkey breast. Usually we'll have 3 or 4 different pies for dessert. It's ridiculous.
Sometimes I will stay the night at their house, sometimes slipping into a food coma on a couch and later stumbling to a guest room, because my sisters are there, grandmother is there, and we like to go shopping the next day. Never super early, because we just don't care enough, but we'll always venture out at some point.
We try to switch it up--my family is in Indiana, and his is in New Jersey.
Tday '08: relationship was new--we spent it separately with our respective families
Tday 09': we flew out to NJ to spend it with his fam. The two of us went to NYC the day after.
Tday '10: Took the train to my family in Indiana and spent the holiday with my Dad's side.
Tday '11: Flying out to NJ again. May or may not go to NYC--haven't decided yet.
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Thanksgiving is my ultimate favorite holiday!! We do the same thing every year. We run an 8k turkey trot in the morning, which is pretty difficult. Then we come home and take the dogs on a long walk so we don't have to walk them in the evening. When we get home, we eat breakfast and cook cook cook!
We usually eat turkey dinner at 4-5pm and invite one of FI's friend's over to join us since he's usually in town too. It's always nice and quiet.
This year we bought an apple spiced mead from a local meadery that we're planning on heating up in the crockpot and having with dinner. YUM!
Funny story, our first year together FI made potatoes and the recipe said to broil them. He did that and they caught on fire. We all ate them because it was a good effort, but they tasted like fire. He really usually never messes up recipes so it was kind of a fluke, but it was pretty funny.
UUMMMMM, I'm a planner and a stresser BBE! :-)
This year is weird.
Background: H's brother and his father don't speak. His mom & dad are divorced but amicable.
So, H's mom, dad, & his sister's family are going on a Disney cruise that lets out the Wednesday before. So the plan for now is, have two Thanksgivings, one on Thursday with FIL, one on Friday with BIL. My idea was to just make like, a thousand pies for Thursday, but I've been vetoed, and what the plan is now I haven't the foggiest even though I'm going to likely be doing most of the cooking. Friday is tentatively lasagnas (which I've been informed by my BFF is typical of Italian thanksgivings), but we haven't discussed it with BIL. BIL has a thing where if you make plans without him he will change some aspect of the plan. So, why they've made any kind of plan without letting him think he's in control of it is beyond me.
So, tl;dr, we're staying in town and that's about as far as I've gotten.
We have done something different almost every year. We've been to my parents' house once, his mom's once, and on our own twice. I think that covers all the years.
We are still debating over what to do this year. He wants to invite his mom down and I am iffy on that idea, so..... yeah.
We've been spending it with my extended family, but our family has adopted some drama in the last year (actually last Thanksgiving it started). Not sure how that's going to go. I'm encouraging BF to find out what his family is doing this year so we can secure plans with them to avoid the drama in my family. Or maybe we can start a new tradition and have my parents and brother over for dinner and forget about the aunts/uncles and cousins this year.
It's up in the air.
My BFF and her FI are coming over for dinner. I was going to order a small turkey, or make turkey breasts, but BFF is a vegetarian and her FI is not so crazy about turkey. So, instead, I'm planning on trying Alton Brown's fish and chips recipe. Super casual.
We wanted to have the IL's over the next day for Thanksgiving dinner, but SIL said "Not an option!" because she is allergic to everything and when she comes to our house, she can't breathe. So, we're going to MIL and FIL's instead.
It depends really. We've stayed home or go to MIL's. This year we're going to MIL's. YAY!!
I want some of her sweet potatoes like you wouldn't believe. I tried to make some the other day and it didn't work. I nearly cried. Boo.
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Thanksgiving is my favorite because we get to eat my favorite food, turkey! I kid, it is my favorite holiday for many other reasons. Growing up it was always a big event with my family, so I am slightly bummed that we haven't actually gotten to celebrate with them for about 3 years now.
The past three or so years, we've just had a small Thanksgiving up here, our family lives 6+ hours away, and with a new baby, that trip just doesn't seem feasible, especially if we're going to go down for around a week during Christmas. So again, we'll just have a small Thanksgiving up here. I'll make a small Turkey Breast, Greenbean casserole, Mashed Potatoes and homemade gravy, with some sort of rolls. Probably crescents, as my husband loves those.
There is a slight chance we may spend it with a friend of mine, but we aren't sure yet.
We usually spend T'giving with my dad and stepmom
T'giving weekend we have an adopted family dinner with our best friends and do our own turkey and all that jazz. It's nice b/c it gives us the leftovers for our our sandwiches, turkey soup, etc...
A drama free holiday is the very best kind IMO. We did Tgiving and Christmas on our own last year and I very much loved it.
This is the first year that I'm staying home for any and all holidays.
I've been going 'round and 'round to so many relatives houses for the past 25 years and I've finally got the schits of it. My record is 6 "dinners" in one day. I can't remember if it was Christmas or Thanksgiving, but the food is the same for both so I guess it doesn't really matter.
This year, I'm staying home. If people want to see us, they can ring the doorbell.
We've decided that we're not being controlled by our families anymore. If we want to go on vacation over Christmas, dammit, we're going. We have our own family now and we're doing what we want.
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BF and I are hosting an open-house sort of event on Thanksgiving. He moves into his new house a couple of weeks prior, so it'll be a combo housewarming/Thanksgiving kind of thing, very casual. His uncle plans to stop by, and various friends. I don't know of anyone that's going "home" this year, so Friendsgiving it is!
This will be my first Thanksgiving with my FI's family. I have always had Thanksgiving with my family so this will be totally new for me. My FI's family live in PA (where he was born and raised), and I am from KY so this will all together new for me. I am looking forward to it though.
And here I got irritated when someone who used to work for me made jokes about me and another person in the department having lasagna for Thanksgiving just because we have Italian heritage. I had no idea it was a real thing and not just a stereotype. We have our lasagna on Christmas Eve.
I think this year we're doing what we did last year: Thanksgiving will be at our place and we'll invite who we want to invite. They'll either come or not. No driving around crazy. This is also my plan for Christmas, but since that falls on a weekend I doubt I'll be able to get out of going somewhere for at least part of the time.
DH and I are hosting Thanksgiving at our new house. It will be the second annual "mistfits" Thanksgiving with our friends in town who have family out of town and are unable to make the trip. We're cooking the turkey and everybody else is bringing a dish to pass.
The only thing that doesn't change every year is watching The Lions.
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Jessimau, we don't do it anymore, but when I was a kid, Thanksgiving always started with appetizers, antipasto, then the pasta course, THEN the Thanksgiving food, then salad, then traditional Thanksgiving desserts (at least 4 kinds of pie!), then Italian cookies.
Now we just make ridiculous amounts of Thanksgiving food and leave all the other stuff for Christmas Eve!
This year, H and I are hosting my ILs in our apartment - we'll have 8 people staying from weds through sunday and I'll cook dinner. Should be super fun!