What's your plans for Thanksgiving!!!

here in canada we have our thanksgiving in october (it was the weekend of the 10th) which to me makes sense because we are thankful for the harvests and we do the same thing you do. get together with family and eat tons of food! we get the monday off from work but what i would love to do is to go to black friday sales!

In recent years my husband and I have spent it with his mom's side of the family as that's the only ones who do it anymore. My aunt does have thanksgiving, and she invites us but we don't like crowds. Before my husband and I got married, we started talking to my dad, and at the reception for our wedding, my father suggested we come by on Thanksgiving to eat with him and his family. We said we'd have to see if Jon was working and what we could do, and he said if nothing else we could pick up a plate and bring it home. He even said that my parent in laws were invited to come! In any case, If he's off work we'll most likely go up to talk and maybe eat a little with my husband's side, and then we'll go to my dad's if we can find the way there, lol! It will be in a different county and in an area I know personally I haven't been in much, if at all as I'm not sure exactly where he lives. But there ya have it though, our plans for Thanksgiving Day, or what we may be able to do, all depending. If he works, I'll just be spending the day with my husband's side as I am just now studying for my permit, and can't drive.

We will be doing what we have done for years, having all the kids come over and enjoy each others company with lots and lots of good food! I have already started a list of what I need to do and what we need to get. I find out what each kid is going to bring and we round it out. We have both Turkey and ham with all the fixings. It is the one time of the year that we do splurge some and really throw a good time with the good food. I cant wait as we have 8 kids and all but one will be here this year. Next year should be awesome thou as they should all be here. Along with this we will have almost all our grandbabies here too! All together we have 11 but again they all wont be here as the other parent will be having them that day. Im hoping for the day that all of them will be here at one time thou!

We usually have Thanksgiving at our house and I cook for everyone. My mom usually brings her broccoli caserole which I like and some people will bring desserts, but I cook everything else. I have been doing it for so many years now though that it is very easy for me to do. I have it down to an exact science now so I really don't have to think that hard on Thanksgiving day, I try to change one side dish every year, but other than that everything is pretty traditional.

Well I'm living down in Mexico and as I jope you know they don't celebrate it down here! However I still do I love putting a good dinner together for any reason! My family here is all Mexican and love it when this time of the year comes around, I go up to Laredo Tx and get all I need for the meal because they don't have a lot of the things I need, plus I do some Christmas shopping while I'm there because it's much cheaper! I also go up there just before Christmas and get a large Honey Baked Ham! LOL! Now my mouth is watering! tdemex

[b]Hello my friend Well I wanted to cook this year, but my mom asked me will I be joining them so I said yes, I always spend thanksgiving with my mom every year, people invite me to dinner, but I can't see myself sharing that day with anyone but my family unless I stay home and cook for my daughter and grand, its weird, I always been this way, just like new years eve I always bring it in on my knees with my family, last year we stayed home but still new years met us on our knees, not the same not being with my mom, guess I am a mommas girl, oh well, I love my mommy and all the wonderful traditions she instilled in us throughout the years. Have a great Holiday my friend, smoochessss [/b]

To be honest I'm really not sure what is going to happen this year for Thanksgiving. I'll have several days off so I'll be traveling home probably on Tuesday evening. I'll have off until Sunday and then I'll have to travel back home so I can make it to work the next day. The only thing that is certain to me is that I will probably be doing some sort of shopping on Black Friday. I'll either shop in the store or I'll shop online. I love the sales. I don't always shop the sales for Christmas gifts but I love taking advantage of all the price drops whenever possible. It's the best day to save money.

I was talking about Thanksgiving with my sister on the phone today. Apparently, my parents and I are going to make the three hour trek to her house this year. We'll be having Thanksgiving at her and her husband's house. Afterwards, we'll make the half hour trip to my mom's parents to eat dessert with them. My grandparents aren't up to a big dinner, but we all want to be able to see them. My sister lives a half hour away from them, but of course my parents and I are further away. My sister says she is cooking the big Thanksgiving dinner. Which is quite shocking. I guess there IS a first for everything!

I will probably go to my sister's house this year for dinner. She has 3 kids and lives very close by. And she is an excellent cook. Her husband also helps her in the kitchen on the holidays as well. He's such a great guy! She is very lucky to have been married to a wonderful man for over 25 years now. I will of course try to take a dish. It is hard for me to ever decide what to take. If some of her close friends come by, they are vegan, so I will try to make something without meat in it for them. Otherwise, I may make my Italian salad. That is one of my few specialty dishes that I enjoy taking to holidays and carry-ins. I may also go to my brother's house. He always likes to see me if we can get together. But sometimes it can be challenging because he ends up spending a lot of time trying to get together with his wife's family. Plus, if they have dinner at his house they don't eat until around 6:00 pm. That's too long for me to wait to dig into all of that good food. LOL

This year I honestly have no idea. I have plans for Halloween, my birthday, Christmas and New Years, but I sort of forgot about Thanksgiving. No big dinner for me on Thanksgiving. We stopped doing that years ago. One thing I always try to do is buy a pumpkin for Halloween and keep it as a decoration until Thanksgiving and then eat it.

I need to train my stomach for Thanksgiving. I woke up this morning, felling a little sick. I'm not sure if I'll be able to really feast like I feel I should this year. I've been on what is shaping up to be a pretty successful diet the whole year. My appetite has changed for the better, I have a metric ton of energy most of the time, I fall in love with myself whenever I pass by a mirror(I'm still a work in progress, but the progress is mighty hansom.) and I just generally feel better about my self. Now, I don't want to disrespect my family members by not eating anything when I come over see this this year. Obviously some sort of plan needs to be concocted. Other than pacing myself, avoiding the urge to fill up on cranberry sauce and potato salad, I may have to do some stomach stretches before stepping foot in the dining room. If I survive the big plate full of food, Maybe I can make it through the seemingly endless desserts that tend to follow as well.

Hi everyone, in Canada, thanksgiving was on the 12th of October and it was nice, i spent thanksgiving at a friends place, had turkey and it was tasty, i really had a nice time

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We dont do much decorating for Thanksgiving only for Christmas. We have a rather large family so lots of cooking and best of all homemade pies for dessert. Our son will be away for first time in military is going to be very hard this year without him home for the Holidays. I dont think it would be good to ship a thanksgiving turkey overseas to him, hope the military does something nice for our deployed soldiers.