It'll be my family of 4 plus my parents. I'm doing all the cooking (with the kids' help-ages 6 and 8) Turkey Homemade cornbread dressing Gravy Potato salad Green beans Creamed corn Rolls Deviled eggs Pumpkin muffins or apple brownies for dessert (haven't decided yet, depends on how stressed I am! LOL The pumpkin muffins are so easy the kids can make them without any help from me, but if tomorrow goes well, we'll make the more complicated and time consuming apple brownies....) We'l be playing 100 Wacky Things because my 6 year old just got it for his birthday and it's sooooo funny! Then my mom is going to stay here with the kids while hubby and I go Black Friday shopping at Walmart (YUCK!) for the 2 things my kids asked for for Christmas....Skylanders Giants and a GPS... Hope everyone has a a Happy Thanksgiving!
It will be just the 4 of us plus my daughter's nurse. We are starting the day early at the big Thanksgiving Day parade in downtown Houston. Then we will come home and have lunch. I am making: Turkey Dressing Corn Casserole Green Beans Sweet Potato/Apple Bake Fruit Salad Crescent Rolls Pecan Pie and Spice Cupcakes w/cream cheese frosting Then it's LOT'S of football. Texans and Texas Longhorns! I'm going to put out a vegetable tray, sausage/cheese and cracker tray and a pickle/olive tray for snacking on during the games. Typing out all of that food has made me stuffed already! LOL! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family JosieB and to everyone else on the forum too!
We are going to my sister in laws here in town... We have this thing that I go over and help with prep cooking and turkey prep the night before. I am in charge of Cornbread dressing Homemade mac and cheese green bean cass. My father in law makes all the pies!!! yepeee! My sister in law takes care of the rest... After that I have no idea what we will do, movies, games, most likely. Tonight is going to be fun for me, I get to cook and mess up someone else's kitchen LOL
We are having Thanksgiving on Sunday, since that's the only day everyone has off. It will be 8 of us eating with my parents at their house and my brother. I don't know if we are going over to the In-Laws house or not (Their super mean to me and I'm sick of it, and Gary's brother is an abuser). We will be having: 3 Turkey's (2 deep fried, and one oven baked. We cook so many so both families ahve leftovers, and we have som,e to deliver to an elderly neighbor) Green bean casserole Sweet Tater Cassarole Hashbrown Cassarole (lots of cassarole! lol) Cranberry salad Custard pie Cherry Pie Punpkin Pie AND CAKE!!!! (It's my Baby Marion's Birthday! He'll be 2!) I'm sure that Dad and Gary will get into football, and Mom and I will chitter chat like chipmunks (we usually do).. HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Our Thanksgiving was in October. We went to my in-laws and went out to a restaurant together. It was one of those huge Chinese buffet places. Everyone loved it. For American Thanksgiving we will take some time off of school to put up the Christmas tree.
Josie, I HAVE to ask: Your kids want a GPS?? For us, it's just me, Dh and the kids. I don't make turkey, since it's too gigantic, so w're having: Roasted Chicken Mashed Potatoes w/gravy Grilled sweet potato wedges Corn on the cob Chocolate cake Very humble and non-traditional dinner, I know, but its just enough that I can handle by myself
Usually, we invite friends or international students around for Thanksgiving. This year, though, what with all my recent travel to Cornwall and my wife starting a full-time job, it was asking far too much to have the house ready. Instead, I've booked a table for us to eat lunch at a local steakhouse.
We are going to my parents' this year. It will be the four of us, my parents, my dad's mom and my dad's stepmom. Yep. You read that correctly. They get along fine, though. I don't know the exact menu as I'm totally spoiled and my mom does the cooking. From past experience I can say we will most likely have: turkey dressing (my mom's grandmother's recipe, YUM!) green bean casserole corn macaroni and cheese yams deviled eggs gravy pecan pie pecan pie minus the pecans pumpkin pie maybe a chocolate pie My mom grew up in a family of five kids and a large extended family. Her mom had to cook for an army and now Mom thinks she should as well. It's fine by me! Leftovers rock!
We have all my cousins and their kids headed over to our house. It'll be about 20 of us, total. Which is super fun, however, everyone besides about 5 of us are super picky. So, most of the staples I've come to love are omitted this year. Totally sad. Like my Squash Casserole and the traditional Green Bean Casserole are gone. In their place plain green beans, corn, and macaroni and cheese. Otherwise we will have: turkey and gravy stuffing pork roast broccoli rice cheese casserole sweet potatoes mashed potatoes cranberries homemade rolls green leaf salad and the aforementioned: corn green beans mac and cheese butter cake pecan squares pumpkin pie
It will just be dh,ds, and I. We will have turkey, mashed potatoe, and stuffing. Otherwise, it will be an enjoyably lazy day. I can picture each of us on a computer/laptop playing our game of choice. Maybe a movie or board game thrown in. We already did the crazy-busy thing. 2 weekends ago, we went out of town to visit my family. We celebrated my son's birthday. Then, we had a Thanksgiving dinner. That was an odd one, it was at my dads house with all of my mom's side of the family for the birthday party part. Note, they have been divorced and remarried for over15 years. Everyone was cool with it. Last weekend was a weekend trip out of town for DH's family to celebrate FIL's 70th birthday. We are ready for a quiet lazy weekend.
We have no family here, so in the morning, we are helping the Sheriff's Department pack food boxes for needy families. We'll so a mini-feast later in the evening: chicken and dressing, mashed potatoes, peas, mac 'n cheese, rolls, and cherry cheesecake. It's not so traditional, but it's only us. Afterwards, we'll start on the Christmas decorations! Actually, I've started the big tree already, but I've only worked on the lights.
It will just be us this year. All of my family and my husband's close family has either passed on or moved far away. My husband's other family went south for the holiday, and we haven't found anyone else to invite. Our meal is traditional and simple with the typical turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, Stove Top stuffing, brown-and-serve rolls, whole cranberry sauce, apple pie from scratch, and pumpkin pie from scratch. I don't go crazy for just four people. So far my apple pie is on the counter in peril of being eaten early, and I'm almost ready to put the pumpkin pie in here soon. I cooked up a whole bunch of pumpkins from our garden, so I may make pumpkin cookies too! I'll get up early Friday to do a bit of shopping, and we might take the tree out or do some other decorating.
It'll be us, my parents and sister, grandmother and my mom's late BFF's family. They have a really rough time around the holidays without their matriarch(this is their 2nd Thanksgivign since she passed), and my mom has stepped in as "mom/nana" to her kids and grandkids. So, lots of not-quite-family. Tonight I made 3 pumpkin pies to take, doing the green bean casserole in the morning, then we'll all gather at my parents church fellowship hall(only place that will hold all of us) with a deep fried turkey, gb casserole, corn, sweet potatoes,dressing, pie and cake, and cranberry.
Yep. My oldest used a borrowed one when Geocaching a couple of years ago and has developed a love of all things map related (in fact we are redoing his room since his little brother moved into his own room and guess what theme he picked? Maps!) So he's been asking for a GPS for about 3 Christmases now ... I actually found one for $39 online today so I grabbed it... The only reason we're doing a not so humble and very traditional dinner is for my mom...hubby and I have already talked, once my parents pass on we're not doing traditional we want to instead do some type of service for the day like homeless shelter or something then go out the eat and give the waitress a huge tip in a Christmas card I forgot, we also usually put our tree up on Thanksgiving day...I put it together and the kids decorate it while I cook...
Wow. We never start on tree and decorations until one week before Christmas. On the flip side, we don't take them down until the 12 days of Christmas are over.
Our Christmas tree (fake) goes up the day after Halloween and we don't takt it down until about February. We love the festive feeling inside the house. We follow the traditional guidelines and wait until the day after Thanksgiving for outside decorations and take down the outside stuff New Years.
I love the Advent/Christmas season. We get our tree up early so we can make ornaments for it for Advent. We take our tree down when we get around to it. LOL
We did nothing. We will do nothing besides sit home and relax. I don't feel a need to show thanks with food when I am thankful everyday.
We had a huge Thanksgiving day. My FIL drove in from NH (we're in MI) and my SIL and her boyfriend also drove in from NH (they leave tomorrow morning). My mom and one of my sisters and her husband and baby girl came over and my stepbrother stopped over with his girlfriend's daughter and her cousin for a while. We have a HUGE and mixed family and it was probably my most favorite Thanksgiving in a LONG time. Things flowed smoothly, I remained calm and didn't stress, the food turned out great and everybody told me that they really enjoyed it all and the whole day. We put up our tree on Thanksgiving day and that's usually my main focus but I kept it a secondary focus this year and I think that helped with keeping things from being too stressful. Thursday night my mom, sil and I took my 7yr old to the 8pm walmart sales. I got everything I went for and my mom did pretty well too I think. Then SIL and I came home and slept a few hours before meeting up with my mom again at about 4:45ish and we shopped until we dropped - almost literally. I love black Friday and having my SIL along for the ride was a TON of fun. We've spent today being lazy, playing with the kids, watching movies, adding more Christmas decor to the house etc. It's been nice. As I said this was by far my most favorite Thanksgiving in a long long while.
