Thanksgiving time

[Mugwump]

..so what's everybody doing this year? We usually spend the day up at #1's families house....but they may be travel'n out to her folks this time. I imagine we'll have a 'bird' here then.. ....#2 and family can come over....#3's family is out in Colorado....

[wsantia1]

I'll be in DC with Vikki's family. My family gets together over Christmas.

[Ron Sower]

We'll eat at the clubhouse with our friends here....this will be the first Thanksgiving away from our kids, either hers or mine, in about 15 years or so...

[waterboy]

We host a traditional family feast with all the kids, or at least all that can make it. One is up north just across the river from Minneapolis, and one sometimes goes to her husbands family get together. Usually two 20 lb turkeys with all the extras. Plenty of turkey sandwiches for days afterwards. I keep telling her that she is getting too old for all that work, but she won't listen.

[Mugwump]

We host a traditional family feast with all the kids, or at least all that can make it. One is up north just across the river from Minneapolis, and one sometimes goes to her husbands family get together. Usually two 20 lb turkeys with all the extras. Plenty of turkey sandwiches for days afterwards. I keep telling her that she is getting too old for all that work, but she won't listen.

WOW...that's a lot of bird !!!    haven't had a huge Thanksgiving dinner like that since I was a kid, we went 'over the river and through the woods'....she always fed an army of us....good times....

[Ron Sower]

We host a traditional family feast with all the kids, or at least all that can make it. One is up north just across the river from Minneapolis, and one sometimes goes to her husbands family get together. Usually two 20 lb turkeys with all the extras. Plenty of turkey sandwiches for days afterwards. I keep telling her that she is getting too old for all that work, but she won't listen.

WOW...that's a lot of bird !!!    haven't had a huge Thanksgiving dinner like that since I was a kid, we went 'over the river and through the woods'....she always fed an army of us....good times....

...I'll bet you miss those days too, don't you Jon? ...I Know I do!

[Mugwump]

We host a traditional family feast with all the kids, or at least all that can make it. One is up north just across the river from Minneapolis, and one sometimes goes to her husbands family get together. Usually two 20 lb turkeys with all the extras. Plenty of turkey sandwiches for days afterwards. I keep telling her that she is getting too old for all that work, but she won't listen.

WOW...that's a lot of bird !!!    haven't had a huge Thanksgiving dinner like that since I was a kid, we went 'over the river and through the woods'....she always fed an army of us....good times....

...I'll bet you miss those days too, don't you Jon? ...I Know I do!

Yes, I do......the banter around the table, the laughter.....the happiness glowing from us all...

[wallace]

The kids are going to come home for a few days.

When I was little the whole extended family lived in the same area, there was a big dinner at grandpa's every year. He had big fish tanks to look in. There was about 20 people, and a kiddie's table.

[Rjb3]

Looks like we get two Thanksgiving dinners this year. One on Thursday with friends, and again on Friday with our daughter. Her boyfriend's family celebrates on Friday.

[Mugwump]

The kids are going to come home for a few days.

When I was little the whole extended family lived in the same area, there was a big dinner at grandpa's every year. He had big fish tanks to look in. There was about 20 people, and a kiddie's table.

...ah...the kiddies card table(s)......yeppers....

[LizStreithorst]

I generally don't celebrate holidays period.  I enjoyed Christmas and my birthday and Halloween when I was a kid because I got stuff    I always hated Thanksgiving because I'd have to get all dressed up and sit around politely with a bunch boring adults when I much rather would have preferred to be playing in the woods with my dog. 

For the past few years I've sometimes cooked something special for Thanksgiving just for me.  I get invited to family's dinners but I always feel like a stray being taken in for the day.  This year I think I'll make a duck breast.  I love duck and haven't had it in ages.  I'm going to make this: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/pan-roasted-duck-breast-recipe0.html

[wallace]

When I was a kid the adults weren't very boring. I loved listening to the old people telling stories and jokes in the scottish accents and getting drunk. I looked in the kitchen sink once and there was a bunch of cigar stubs floating in there. The men just tossed them in the sink!

[LizStreithorst]

Adults were only boring during holiday dinners.  The dinner parties were all about putting on a show as far as I was concerned.  I've always sucked at putting on a show.  I found listening to adults who just came by to visit very entertaining and enlightening because they talked about things that mattered to them.

[Ron Sower]

Adults were only boring during holiday dinners.  The dinner parties were all about putting on a show as far as I was concerned.  I've always sucked at putting on a show.  I found listening to adults who just came by to visit very entertaining and enlightening because they talked about things that mattered to them.

If I were a praying man, I'd say "Amen To that"!