Thanksgiving Plans

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by smiley21
my mom and i are going to fort walton beach to visit my aunt and cousins for a few days. then when we come back home, my grandparents are supposed to be visiting.

I'm from FWB. I'm not going there this Turkey Day, though! St Louis is where I'm headed.

[CatStarESP4]

My family is going to a local Italian restaurant for Thanksgiving!

[sigmagrrl]

* Wake up around 8:15am
* Proceed to make cocoa and brownies
* Tune into the macy's Parade to watch the beginning (up until the marching bands. No offense, but BORING!!! )
* Take shower and get dressed
* Go visit my dad's grave
* Come home and eat breakfast
* Nap
* Get up and complete dinner
* Eat dinner and play with my niece
* Nap
* Get up and clean up
* surf the web
* Go to bed!

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Well, at my house TKE209 and I will be eating an early T-Day celebration. That afternoon we will be traveling to Athens to his parents and eat once again! Oh..I see myself gaining about 10 lbs that day!

[Peaches-n-Cream]

I am eating with my family early in the day. I will spend the evening at a restaurant with my bf. For some reason, he decided to cook a turkey and make stuffing last night so I will probably be sick of it by Thanksgiving.

[AXJules]

Originally posted by mullet81
my family is INSANE!!! we all go over to my grandpa and grandma's house on thanksgiving around 1 in the afternoon. typically we have hors dourves, drinks, enjoy each other's company, the ladies cook and get the table looking fabulous, while the "men" and i say that lightly b/c it includes my 13 year old cousin either watch football or play football out in the yard.

we usually each our BIG meal around 4pm until everyone is stuffed! then the 16-24 year olds get to clean up, while my little cousins like to perform skits for the aunts, uncles and grandparents

then we break out the cards! my family loves playing cards - we usually get a few games of poker, euchre, or something going. we eat desert, some people have seconds on dinner or turkey sandwiches - and we drink

generally, i don't leave family parties before 11pm or 12am!

Do you have any idea how beautiful I think this whole post is? I realize that sounds super ghey but I have the tiniest family (3 of us) and when ppl ask me how I picture my family when I 'grow up' I say, I don't know how many people I want in the family, I just know I want enough for a football team in the backyard on Thanksgiving. Please realize what an awesome family you have- I am so so jealous.

Our plans? Me, my mom, my dad. My mom's brother is flying in from Cleveland. Alone. We're not speaking to my only living relatives on my Dad's side of the family, my grandma and uncle, so it will be a party of 4 on Thursday. Happy frickin holidays.

[winnieb]

My husband, 2 boys, and myself are going to my dad's house. At my dad's it will be my dad, stepmom, stepbrother, his wife and 3 kids, step mom's sister and her son.
It is always a very boring day there--- we eat at 230, and will be gone by 6. After we leave my dad's we will go to a movie, probably see Cat in the Hat as the kids are dying to see it.

-wendi

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by AXJules
Our plans? Me, my mom, my dad. My mom's brother is flying in from Cleveland. Alone. We're not speaking to my only living relatives on my Dad's side of the family, my grandma and uncle, so it will be a party of 4 on Thursday. Happy frickin holidays.

Jules! Our families should get together and kick it. It's just going to be me, my parents, my aunt, and my grandpa. I'm really at my uncle/godfather and his wife right now - they just moved to the same town that my parents and my grandpa live in, and they aren't spending Thanksgiving with us. We've never had a holiday with the whole family together that my cousins are old enough to remember and my grandpa is 80 so I don't know why they think that they can keep putting it off.

[mmcat]

i'll drive to new mexico wednesday morning. had a church meeting tuesday that i couldn't reschedule. my mother has already called three times with the menus. needless to say we'll eat beautifully. the humor being, she'll fuss for three days that i need to drop weight, but then will say "you gotta eat and take some home." this year, though, my mom, dad and i. my sister and brother in law will join us on a cruise at christmas.

[etahannah]

i am going to my mom and dad's house for a very small thanksgiving. it will just be my mom, my dad, my brother, my grandma, and my great aunt. AND ME!! most of my mom's family is out west in az and my dad was an olny child and does not have any family to have over except my grandma and great aunt.

then i am going over to my best friends house at 5 for their thanksgiving even though he is not even in the country. he is in iceland where he grew up visiting his grandma and gets back on the first. his mom invited me over to meet the rest of his family that is dying to meet me. his other grandparents that are over from iceland will be there and his aunt who i swear would kill to meet me will be there too. so basically i will know his mom and dad and sister and that will be it. should be an exciting afternoon!! hehe..i am excited though!!

have a happy turtkey day!!

[Cluey]

Growing up, we always had a big family dinner on Thanksgiving. It was so close to several family birthdays that we would basically end up spending most of the week together celebrating one thing or another. I miss those days so much

Now, my family is tiny. Basically, there is just my parents, my sister and me. We have a little bit more family in-town, but they now have their own families (i.e. they have their own huge family, complete with grandchildren).

I guess we're a family in flux in regard to the holidays.

[Anchorgirl]

I got a last minute deal through Orbitz so I am going to visit my sister in Texas! I can't wait to see her. She is cooking Thanksgiving dinner for a bunch of friends who are staying in town instead of visiting family for the weekend. Should be a fun group and I'm sure, like every year, we will have a battle of the minds with a game of Trivial Pursuit!

[AOX81]

Going to the in-laws this year. Basically I'm gonna eat until I can't move.

[Dionysus]

Tonight-me and my buddies from church are having a dinner, one of them is going to school to be a chef or culinary artist, he's gonna cook for us. A guy fixing dinner...that will be a first.

Tommorrow-My immediate family was going to go to my cousin's house, but somehow that fell through. So, we'll probably just have dinner at our house or go out somewhere.

[tri-deltgurl]

Staying in town with the rest of my family. Can't wait to eat tomorrow!!

Got an awesome deal though for Christmas break, going to Paris!!! $350 RT on Orbitz. I'm so excited to go... my friendds live out there, can't believe I'm going!!