We will be spending Thanksgiving with CCB's family. We will be going to her sister's house which is fairly close. My parents went to the Canary Islands for Thanksgiving this year. I can't wait to see pics.

We will have a potluck dinner at my parent's house. My daughter made a pie and I'll make risotto and a spinach gratin as well as a pot of pasta for my nephews.

It's our first big holiday since my brother died and no one is feeling celebratory. Hopefully my nephews will be in good spirits, it's easy to just direct our thoughts and attention to them.

My mom and I agree we would rather be in bed with a good book and some pizza and wine.

I'll be home in the femme cave on my own. Will watch holiday shows, talk to family on the phone, fret over the move.

Am thinking of making this mushroom pie for the first time:

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But may end up making Turkey wings and gravy, with cornbread dressing, and a green veggie. Haven't decided.

Throughout the day I will count my blessings, miss my family, and enjoy my last warm November in this femme cave.

Hoping everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving week.

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I'm staying safe at home, and creating arts and crafts for holiday prezzie's for people I know here at home.

Thanksgiving
 

I am totally cheating. I am buying a pre-cooked dinner so that we can enjoy the day.

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I LOVE MUSHROOM PIE. Oh my. Enjoy it!

Hopefully Thanksgiving will involve Daddy, me, and my daughter. If none of us get put on quarantine between now and then. We will zoom with my parents and sister in law and nephews at some point. Over the next day or two I'm going to make some of the traditional dishes that I always make for Thanksgiving and leave them on doorsteps for my parents and Sister in law. (wearing a mask and gloves while cooking) I will make my mom fudge bars that she loves and my Grandma's corn spoon bread that we all love. For my sister in law and my parents I will make a dish that I have made almost every year since I realized it got my brother to eat Brussels Sprouts (Sorry cover your eyes for a minute Gemme) I roast them with fresh cranberries and top with a confetti of crumbled bacon and roasted pecans. My brother loved them. I couldn't get myself to make them last year without him here to eat them but I'll try for this year. For my nephews, I will drop them off a vat of my pasta that they love so much. It's very simple but they lose their minds for it.

At home we are planning a simple fish dinner. My daughter is baking bread, Daddy wants to get big lobster tails, and I will make some vegetable sides.

I hope everyone stays safe this year, though it can feel lonely.

Cooking Friendsgiving together..inviting ex, my best friend & her lover....i'm making a pumpkin & an apple pie..toying with the idea of making potstickers as an appetizer...she's still thinking about her part...we're good together..i'm rapid fire and she thinks everything down to the very last detail...i appreciate her mindfulness:hangloose:

Spending OUR first Thanksgiving together....
 

To my way of thinking, this is a wonderful way to do it...:hangloose:

I am playing it safe this year. Even though many people have invited me....including someone who says "One rule. What goes on here stays here."

So, it will be the same thing I did last year.

I will be cooking a turkey for me and the dog. Though now I think I have adopted a stray cat.

(I don't think it is really a stray because it has been on and off here for almost a year, and it looks to be well fed. However, I did notice it has been declawed. poor kitty.)

It is nice to have been given the entire week off rather than just three days. We needed that.

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I'll be stuck sitting here in Green Acres while wishing I could be in Chicago!

Can I have Gemme’s serving? I love Brussels and those sound especially good!

I’m planning on ham steak, green beans, roasted baby potatoes and yam “pie”. Maybe get some FaceTime in with Mom, we’ll see...

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My sister and her roomie live in my Mother in law apt. She cooked and i went to her pad for dinner.

Today I delivered holiday meals to homebound elders and then went home to nothing special. I don't like turkey very much and I usually avoid this holiday. But this year I had planned to spend the holiday with my close friends in their new house in the Bronx. We were going to eat steak and watch motorcycle racing. Woo-hoo! I get tested once a week at work and I would be getting a test on Monday preceding Thanksgiving. That would be good enough, right?

And then I saw Rachel Maddow's raw, emotional piece where she speaks about her fears and her devotion to her partner who had been very sick with Covid. Then she made an extremely personal plea to everyone to reconsider our holiday plans.

Damn.

Well, after that I couldn't very well visit my friends, one of whom is older and the other comes down with pneumonia regularly. Saint Rachel of Maddow must not be ignored. Sigh.

I'll eat all the steak and watch all the MotoGP once we're fully vaccinated.Stay vigilant and be safe, everyone.

Well it is 2 months out still so I have a while to decide. I have the whole week off. I haven't decided if I will go to TN to visit a friend or if I will go camping. I could actually do both but will likely do one or the other. Then come home to rest a few days before returning to work.

This will be a Holiday that I will spend Thanksgiving with family members! Two of them in fact. Well, my Mom AND my little brother. I'm sure it will be a great meal no matter what the cuisine.

My families and I will be celebrating a couple new additions to our ever, hugely growing families!

A baby girl and a boy, so prepping for baby welcoming and of course food!

No formal plans yet but if the kids are out of town I'm going to have some kind of something Chinese that reheats well. No one delivers out this way save for one pizza place. Their food is okay but nothing special, not for the price. For not much more I can get a variety of tasty foods, not just one thing that may or might not bear repeating. I'll ask one of the kids to run an order over before heading out of town. If they stay in town it will just depend on which of her family visits. If it's those who don't care to socialize I'll just do the take out and later sometime over the weekend we'll probably go out for Chinese, have a second Thanksgiving of our own. Otherwise we'll all gather at my oldest son's place.

Rico and I are doing a weekend of activities to express our gratitude with members of our family and family of friends: 4 days of expressing how thankful we are for all the many ways life blesses us. We're so thankful and we will spend our holiday spreading as much joy to others as others have given to us.

It will be a difficult time with sadness since I won’t see anyone, but doing what I can to care for myself helps a lot.

My plans include: reading and listening to the 1619 Project book I just received (this project comforts me in ways I can’t explain), calling family and friends and leaving messages for those who aren’t available, spending some time outdoors at the lake taking photos if it’s not too cold, picking up a pizza or some Chinese food, and creating layouts of designs of a 1619 project quilt that’s been on my mind.

It won’t be a perfect Thanksgiving, but it will be workable and at the end of the day I’ll be able to fall asleep thinking of the things I’m grateful for.

Hoping everyone has a nice Thanksgiving.

I will be working, my job has scheduled all of us, and we will see who actually shows up or calls in or has actually taken the time off with pto!

These days we pick-up dinners at the local senior center. We sit in our recliners (no diningroom or other table large enough to eat at). This apartment is too small for any other furniture. We have 2 small tables.

When I was working, this would be the start of my major holiday OT period.
Many of these shifts had incentives. Some were double-time, some with a comp. day off. Other nurses would comment about my cold approach, I'd always respond by asking how many gifts were under their tree and how much was gotten without incurring debt. My family has no problem celebrating Yule on 12/26. Milk those capitalists for all their worth.

Thanksgiving X-Mas New Years
1500-2300 eve. 1500-2300 eve. 1500-2300
2300-0730 eve. 2300-0730 day 1500-2300

Made for a great holiday season. Used to take a vacation after this.

Was hoping to camp or go somewhere but family responsibility duty calls. Thursday is Daddy's 80th birthday so gotta be there for the Ole guy. What do ya get an 80 yr old

I will be spending it with my sister, her fiance, my niece and I believe my step-sister and her two sons are coming as well.

It is just going to be hard given it is the first one with our Mom. There is a part of me that is dreading it and then there is a part of me that knows she would not want me sitting here by myself shedding tears and wishing things were different. I am going to do the best I can to make it through the day.

Yes, it's the day before already but....
 

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All I know for sure is I'll be here on Green Acres! But as far as what we'll cook and eat, that's still to be determined!

Would love to go camping. Maybe the beach or one of the southern SC lakes, but I don't see it happening this year

Staying home and cooking Turkey wings with the fixings for one. Have been invited to dinner with family in the D, but am staying in the femme cave. My bestie in Chapel Hill is talking about running away and may drop in. She’s going thru a rough time and my home is open to her 24/7.

Taking Brittany my dog to meet my mom. I will cook the traditional turkey meal in advance, take it with me in a cooler, and finish it there. Then the next day we will come back by way of my sister's house so the whole fam can meet Brittany.

This year, my sweetie is going to be out of town at his parents place, helping out with a project that needs to be done and over with, so I have plans to be chauffeured to a few bars, which close friends of ours own, and have fun on my own with long time friends. Then when my honey is done with the parent project, we plan to have a special supper and share stories from our Thanksgiving weekend.