Working on Thanksgiving - will you celebrate and if so - when?
By speakeasy
@speakeasy (4171)
United States
November 18, 2009 12:51pm CST
My husband and I are both shift workers and usually if one of us is working on Thanksgiving we just postpone the celebration a day or two and celebrate on Friday or Saturday.
This year we were looking at our schedules and found that if we postponed it, we would not both have the same day off until Dec 7! At first we were thinking about just skipping celebrating this year; but, looking at the calendar we noticed that we will both have the day off on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. So, this year we are going to celebrate Thanksgiving two days early.
Do you have to work on Thanksgiving this year? If you do, how will you handle it - pass on celebrating, celebrate early, or celebrate later?
1 response
@speakeasy (4171)
• United States
19 Nov 09
A lot of things have been happening this past year; but, I think it is important to at least try to celebrate the Holidays if you can. We live too far away from our relatives to visit on the Holidays; so, it is just the three of us (my husband, my son, and myself). We usually just get a small turkey (or if that is not possible a prepackaged "turkey roast" with gravy. A couple of sides and a pie for dessert. My husband cooks the turkey on our grill and I fix the rest inside. So, it really is not too much trouble for either of us and following the traditions make us feel better even if we are by a day or two off.
