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Are you having a traditional Thanksgiving or are you doing your own thing

Posted: Nov 9, 2009

Traditional = family, turkey, stuffing cranberry sauce .........

or

something out of the ordinary?

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We never sway from traditional. We always have it at my grandparents on her or his (can't remember) great-grandmothers china with all the fixin's

Its always at least 30 people for dinner then we have about 50 for dessert and social time. My family is very strong on making sure EVERYONE who doesn't "go home" or have a family to have dinner with, comes to ours. It's so much fun.... I love the holidays.

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Traditional here - Happy MTer

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We have about 16 for dinner and then several more for dessert and social time. I make the exact same dishes for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year and have been doing it for over 20 years now, sweet potato souffle (for my mom), homemade mashed potatoes (for oldest daughter), green bean casserole (for SIL), broccoli casserole (for other daughter), corn pudding (ME), banana pudding (for hubby), pumpkin pie (oldest daughter and fiance') and coconut cake (my sister). All of this is in addition to what my mom and my sister make so needless to say, we have MORE than enough food and generally eat on it for several days. Everyone has their favorites, as noted above, so when we start talking about "down sizing" dinner every year we end up with everyone wanting their favorites, thus the same list year after year. It is wonderful and like the OP, I love the holidays and would not change a thing.

Can I come, please, please, please, please - just me

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You sound like you have such a wonderful family. I left home at 20 (joined the service) and have not lived near family since. You can't believe how much I miss them. Although now mom has died and it's just dad, aunt, and one sister and her family. But I love big family gatherings. DH's side has big gatherings (mom, dad, and 5 siblings and their families). It was always fun when we lived close to them. Now we live by ourselves away from family and we have no friends to get together with. So I make sure I work so it feels like just another day here, but I do cook a turkey, potatoes, veggie and cranberry sauce. Pumpkin pie of course. Sometimes I make traditional dishes I grew up on, but DH doesn't like a lot of fancy stuff. And I always watch the movie My Fair Lady. Did everyday when I was a kid on Thanksgiving night and still do. That's my only tradition.

I want to be part of your family.....please please please. :-)

My door is open for you and I can promise you that my family - Happy MTer

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would welcome you with open arms. There is more than enough food, lol. Nothing fancy about it, we all wear jeans, tshirts if warm enough, sweatshirts if too cool, play outside with the kids, again if weather permitting before we eat because afterwards we are all too full to move, lol.

Come on over and be ready to eat until you pop!!

Hey Gabby! As much work as it is, it is ALWAYS....sm - Cyndiee

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The traditional, much-anticipated turkey dinner, everything from scratch, including the turkey, I do an Italian-inspired homemade stuffing (lots!), cranberry, butternut squash, candied yams with pecans, brown sugar, and marshmallow, lots of biscuits, homemade mashed potatoes, broccoli au gratin, steamed buttered green beans, and scalloped corn casserole. Don't forget the relish tray with 3 types of pickles, lots of black olives, and I make a homemade apple-cranberry relish. Seconds are almost mandatory. Several pumpkin pies, with a mile-high apple pie, and my kids love lemon squares. God, I am HUNGRY!!!

Ok, how about I go to Gabby's in the day and yours at night - just me

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Thanksgiving for 2 is just not fun. But the cat likes the turkey so if anything it is for her. LOL

I'm hungry reading what you are having.

Come on in, all welcome! (gonna need more chairs?)NM - Cyndiee

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I'd like it to be nontraditional - sm

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Unfortunately, we don't often get a chance to do that. Neither my husband or my family is very close, yet everyone seems to feel that they MUST be together for holidays. At any other time of the year, no one really is in contact with each other unless there's a wedding or funeral. So getting together during a holiday seems like it's some big show we're trying to make. It's like a bunch of strangers, or actors on the set of a t.v. show. We go through the motions, but it's completely without feeling.

Actually, the best T-giving we ever had was when we made a trip to Niagara Falls. We stayed in Canada and had a grand dinner at a restaurant overlooking the falls. The kids played in the hotel pool, and we had a great time just hanging out together.

I hope that some day my kids will have families of their own, and that we'll have genuine holidays together where we're the grandparents hosting the dinner or visiting our children and their families.

Do not count on your family being close after - Lynn

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they have families of their own. It has not worked in my case, have 2 children and one I have not seen since about 2005 and the other have not talked with her in about 2 weeks, so close when they have families, does not always work out that way. My family growing up, grandmother, aunts, uncles and cousins on mother's side very close and we always celebrated special holidays and the like. Not any more, kaput.

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