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#respectthebird...thanksgiving time!!!
i hate that Christmas is taking over every stores, shelf and TV airwaves....if you are facebook friends with me, i have started a #respecthebird campaign...ha!!
so, in honor of this fine holiday....what are some of your favorite T-day memories!
i will start....my first turkey day in DC, my roommate and I (this is way way pre DH), had some people over for dinner and it turned into this huge huge house party (in our tiny little apartment). We didn't realize we both knew so many people who weren't going home for the holiday and then they started bringing their friends too. it was hiliarious. anyway, my roommate disappeared in the crowd for a few hours....later i found out some guest went outside to "smoke" but not of the Joe Camel variety. Poor roomie participated, starting walking around the block and got lost. the group eventually found their way home and ate everything single scrap of food we had left. it was hilarious.
now when i set my pretty table and have "grown up" thanksgiving, i love the fact that there are still a few holdover friends from that house party.
Re: #respectthebird...thanksgiving time!!!
This is also one of my pet peeves!
I don't have any really good Thanksgiving stories like strug's.
I do have fond memories of childhood Thanksgivings where the family joke was to set one uncle's place with a serving fork and serving spoon and the other uncle's with baby silverware.
A funny story from last Thanksgiving - I made a pie to take to DH's aunt's house. To keep it a little bit warm, I carried it in my pyrex portable insulated case (if you don't know what that is, it's a rectangular case that's meant to hold a 9x13 casserole dish). When we got there, I set it on the sideboard. We ate dinner, and when it came time to put out the desserts, DH's aunt asked me where my pie was, and we could not find it. Turns out, one of DH's cousins thought it was her dad's laptop case for some reason (even though it's teal fabric) and she'd set it, on its side, on the floor next to the sideboard. The crust was actually intact (it's bottom crust only), so we scooped the filling back in and served it anywhere!
thanksgiving 1999: i was living in london and it was my first time being away from home/abroad for turkey day. my friend (also american) and i went out for what was supposed to be a quick thanksgiving dinner. well, we ended up hanging out with bunch of scottish guys, drinking far more than i can possibly remember, and going out dancing somewhere. i slept at my friend's flat that night and had to borrow a sweater so that i wasn't wearing the exact.same.thing. i'd worn to work the day before. not traditional in the least but we had a blast.
thanksgiving 2005: first thanksgiving with DH. i made the full thanksgiving dinner just for the two of us. put together our entertainment center (our first grown up furniture purchase together), watched football and took a nap on our futon.
thanksgiving 2009: we spent the day with my bff & her parents in VA. i love her parents and since i've known them for almost my entire life, it was so nice to have them meet DH. so much more relaxing than holidays with our own families.
I don't have one particular memory, but I loved going over my pap's for Thanksgiving. My mom would do most of the cooking, and we'd invite my great-aunts too. My friend would drop by at some point as well, since her dad lived up the street. I enjoyed stuffing myself, then trying to stay awake to watch Home Alone.
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I didn't go home for Thanksgiving during my first year of law school, and one of my law school friends whose family lives in DC invited me and my roomate to his family Thanksgiving. It was so much fun! It was nice to spend Thanksgiving with a big family and avoid any family drama, because the family wasn't mine!
My mom almost died from cancer on Thanksgiving when I was in middle school so every since then we make a huge deal about Thanksgiving! I don't think I have ever spent a Thanksgiving without her since then. Also, we always seem to have people at the table who are a neighbor, co-workers, friend of a friend who did not have other plans which is nice. My mom has always been the type of person who makes sure everyone has a place to be at for Thanksgiving. This year, it is at our house but my sister's godparents will be with us because both their kids are with their inlaws.
We use to go to the movies too (it started when my mom was in the hospital and my uncle was trying to distract us from everything that was going on) but now with a 2 year old it makes it hard. However, we do watch some sort of holiday movie and put the tree up!
I loved waking up on Thanksgiving morning at my parents, running into their bedroom, hoping in bed with them and watching the Macys parade. After a little while my mom would go make breakfast (bagels and apple turnovers) and bring it up to us.
This still happens without me, and my brother and sister are 24 and 16. lol.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
Thanksgiving has always been very special for my family.
When I was 14, my whole family was returning from visiting my grandparents in SC and we were in a terrible car accident and my mom almost lost her life. She ended up having her right arm amputated and my dad broke his back. I was able to pull my two sisters from the car, as it had caught on fire and my mom was trapped. She was in the hospital for almost 3 months afterwards. Because she was able to make such a remarkable recovery, we always celebrate Thanksgiving and remember how thankful we are that everyone made it out alive. I think because of this my mom and I will always share a special relationship. My sisters were too young to remember and my dad was taken to a different hospital, so I was the first person she saw when she woke up from her coma. It was an awful feeling to see my mom so helpless, but I was so thankful to have her alive.
Traveling on Thanksgiving is still difficult for her, so I always go to NY to be with her and the rest of my family..
Sorry it's so long. I don't really share this with many people, so I was nice to get it out...Thanks
We started going to the movies too awhile back! The first time we went was when the first Harry Potter came out!
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
I remember how we always would wait until my grandmother came to start the gravy, because she was the only one who knew how to make it (now I do it and it's awesome of course).
We always had honey roasted peanuts to snack on, I'm not sure why.
I remember one year I had a wicked ear infection, that sucked . . .
I think some of my best memories are from when my brother and I started helping with the cooking. Staying up late the night before prepping ingredients, chatting back and forth about new recipes to try, and getting more and more adventurous with our techniques. I love Thanksgiving!
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