Thanksgiving 2024

[Langue_doc]

What are your plans for the holiday? Are you hosting, cooking, traveling, guesting, or just recuperating?

I have my usual long drive, and am looking forward to good company and good food. Hope it doesn't snow, as that would complicate the drive.

[ciao_yall]

Not sure about the day, but Leftover Surprise is on the next day. My sister might come, along with a few old friends who live in the area. Plus some new friends.

Except I don't know where to get a really good turkey around here.

[RatGuy]

No plans. I have no family anywhere close and all my friends have plans with their families. So I think I'll order chicken fingers and watch the Lord of the Rings movies

[apl68]

Going home to my parents' house a couple of hours from here, as always.  It's times like this I wish I had a family of my own to bring with me.  My brother can't make it because he and his wife live halfway across the country.  One of the things I'm most thankful for is that I still have a home to go to.  We're celebrating Dad's 81st birthday Thanksgiving week.

[pgher]

I'll be seeing my side of the family because my in-laws aren't having a gathering of any sort. One of my kids can't make it but everyone else will. Nobody has a big enough house, so we're going to a restaurant that serves family-style.

[Liquidambar]

We'll have double Thanksgiving this year.  We were scheduled to see the in-laws, but it might be my father's last Thanksgiving, so now we're also doing that.

I'm not optimistic about food quality.  My sister is hosting for the first time and doesn't want to cook a turkey.  The in-laws don't cook much.  Several family members have dietary restrictions. It's easier when I can host and control the dishes that I think are important.  However, seeing family is the truly important thing.  I can make myself a pumpkin pie whenever I feel like it.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

It'll probably be just my household having Thanksgiving since the rest of my family is so far down the rabbit hole politically. I'd rather have my peace than listen to how DEI is destroying the country.

[Puget]

Just staying home, maybe doing a Friendsgiving sometime around then but not on the day. We only have Wed-Fri off, and I badly need the time to catch up on work and restore myself a bit before the last push to the end of the semester. I'll probably go hike around the nearby nature preserve and make a pumpkin pie (the only thanksgiving dish I actually like) and something nice but non-traditional for dinner. Will be seeing family in December.

[Larimar]

As usual Mr. Larimar and I will be traveling a short way (a little over an hour) to see his side of the family. His mother is nominally hosting, but she is closing in on her 90th birthday and frail, and she is no longer up to cooking. Therefore, the rest of us are bringing the food, potluck style. I won't be making my usual dishes this time though. Last year trying to heat everything up at the same time in MIL's tiny kitchen was a problem, so I'll be bringing cold foods instead of my usual garlic mashed potatoes and green beans amandine. Instead I have in mind a nice salad with a couple of different dressing choices, and another deli-style side dish yet to be determined, and maybe some rosemary bread if the store has it.

[hmaria1609]

I went to Friendsgiving at a friend's house after work last night. I overate and had a great time.

I'll be taking most next week off for Thanksgiving.

[Vkw10]

Having dinner in the restaurant at continuing care retirement community where partner's elderly aunt recently moved to memory care unit. It's a nice restaurant. Aunt is at the early stage of memory loss where we can enjoy a pleasant conversation about the past, although it's not safe for her to live alone and she's not always sure just who we are other than some relation of hers.

Nephew is meeting us for dinner, then coming home with us for a few days. He has shopping lists for Trader Joe's and Costco. He likes his work, but misses the amenities of a small city.

[cathwen]

It will be just the two of us this year. One daughter is going to her in-laws' in another state, another is on the opposite coast and will be celebrating with friends, and the third daughter and her wife have had a rough fall and with no energy left for travel or entertaining—which is exactly the situation my husband and I find ourselves in. We'll chat on the phone (or Zoom), but it will be a quiet day for my husband and me. We'll all see each other at Christmas, though.

[Sun_Worshiper]

Hosting a gang of family and friends... if you don't hear from me, then please send in the rescue team

[sinenomine]

I'm happily staying home with five days off from campus. My Thanksgiving meal will be non-traditional -- I'm thinking shrimp rolls, salmon with satay sauce, some yummy local cheese, and local produce. Haven't decided on a dessert yet.

[AmLitHist]

It'll be me, ALHS, and our younger daughter, along with Little Cat and Rigby the Wonder Dog for Thanksgiving. I'll make a plate or two of leftovers for spouse to take to his mom, who is 94. (Usually she and his sisters get together on the day, or the Sunday before.)

I've bought all my groceries already, though I probably forgot something or other.

The plan is to clean up my home office, my crochet supplies and projects (which are a disaster area), and watch TCM and such for most of the week. I only have to teach Monday next week, and all my materials for the rest of the semester are pretty much done--it's just showing up to teach, and lots of grading, from here on.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the forumites and families!