Let me live through you. We have NO plans. My parents and the majority of my family lives 9 hours away and DH doesn't care AT ALL about celebrating so I'm not even going to the trouble of cooking a big meal.
Post by dreamcrisp1 on Oct 8, 2015 18:24:30 GMT -5
We're having dinner at my parents on Sunday and dinner at bfs parents on Monday. So excited!!!
No idea what in laws are making but she's doing a turkey. My mom is making a roast chicken, sweet potatoes, scalloped potatoes, macroni pie, veggies, cranberry, stuffing, gravy, and rice.
I'm doing apple pie and ice cream and a Brie platter with red pepper jelly.
I usually host but my parents and my in laws all went out of town so I'm relieved of that obligation.
My 6 year old is running her first race (1km) on Saturday and I'm doing a 10k race on Sunday. I'll probably do a nice dinner for our little family in Sunday.
Monday is s scuba diving/picnic day with friends. Should be a fun weekend.
My family doesn't do thanksgiving. We are hosting the ILs Sunday. I just bought my giant turkey today. Yay! MIL will bring pumpkin pie and I take care of the rest.
We're having a community turkey dinner at church this weekend, an annual tradition. I foresee that I will likely eat way too much pie, and stuffing. Probably going to my parent's house on Sunday and possibly my grandmother's at some point too, although sometimes we go to her house the week after Thanksgiving to spread out the holiday over-eating, ha.
I am cooking nothing and eating everything. This is my first Canadian Thanksgiving in 7 years, and I'm at my parents' house. I have requested a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings (mashed potatoes, sausage and sage dressing, mashed turnips, vegetables, pumpkin pie). I am pregnant and using that as an excuse to gorge myself.
My sister and I aren't speaking so I'm boycotting my mom's. I convinced my brother and his fiancee to do the same and come to our place for the weekend. Battle lines have been drawn. I can't wait for the fall out from this.
Nothing! It will be glorious! DH and BILs get back from Scotland on Saturday. DH has been home (as in, in the same city/country) 2 days out of the last 16.
It's just the four of us and our first Thanksgiving dinner we're doing on our own, I'm really excited. DH is smoking the turkey and I'll do stuffing, mashed potatoes and green bean casserole.
My sister and I aren't speaking so I'm boycotting my mom's. I convinced my brother and his fiancee to do the same and come to our place for the weekend. Battle lines have been drawn. I can't wait for the fall out from this.
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My sister is a nutter who is easy to get along with as long as she gets her own way. We (my brother's fiancee and i) wouldn't agree to her usual photographer for family pictures in July because she's outrageously expensive. We used a friend of my sil. My sister caused so much drama in the weeks leading up to pictures, complaining about everything and being childish about not getting her way, then she was so rude to the photographer. There was so much tension that we didn't get very many good photos and no good group shots. The photographer even offered to re shoot them they are so bad. Anyways, my sister was mad at me and taking it out on my three year old. I finally yelled at her to stop yelling at my DS. She flipped at told me I'm dead to her (lol) and started berating me and saying how awful my kids are and how I'm such a bad mom. We haven't spoken since.
My brother's fiancee hasn't spoken to my sister either because of how rude she was and how she treated the photographer.
And my mom is taking my sister's side because they have a strange codependent thing going on. I went from talking to my mom every other day to only 3 times in almost 3 months. I'm not sure what's going on there.
We have 40 people coming for dinner!!! H and I tend to invite any one that doesn't have plans. All weekend will be spent cooking and cleaning. We're having turkey, roasted Brussels, broccoli casserole, roasted potatoes and various other veg. For dessert were having Caramel apple cheesecake bars, pumpkin cheesecake and something chocolate. Let the stress begin!
I'm stressed and worried. My parents refuse to let my sister come to their house for a meal (alcoholic, steals things, eating disorder, impossible to be around due to MI), so we are going out to a restaurant to eat. I recently had to block her from texting me and contacting me on FB because of the cruel, mean things she said. I'm worried it will be disastrous, and I don't want to subject the kids to that, or me for that matter. The grandparents I know longer speak to will be having a dinner. It sucks that they refuse to try to resolve things. I miss having an extended family. Thankfully Monday I have no plans, so I plan to spend that day with the kids and H. Monday is the day I most look forward to.
It's totally crazy, we have 3 huge turkeys.....the stress in this house is going to be insane. Then, we'll eat, everyone will have a great time and I'll be happy.
Roast beef (blasphemy) dinner at H's dad's on Sunday.
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it's so convoluted and stupid I can even begin to explain it lol. Just know that everyone is mad at me lol.
I was supposed to host a big gathering at my house, except my stepMIL was dictating the day and guestlist. Ie- she wasn't going to come if my family was invited. Um, fuck you. Anyway, my grandma died and I said fuck it. I was already pissed off, and this was just one. More. Thing. I cancelled.
Nothing more was said, no plans made, nothing from her.
So, we made plans to go to H's mom's. StepMIL finds out and hits the roof.
Anyway, H talked to his mom and she graciously switched the day her dinner was planned for so stepmil can have us over except now stepmil isn't talking to anyone.
That's the bare bones story, but there is a lot more bullshit I left out. Omg.
No Thanksgiving meal!? What??? I love Thanksgiving. We cook a full meal at home if we travel so we can eat the leftovers for days.
We're going to Austin. My mom and dad will both be there, so we're spending Thursday with my dad and Friday with my mom. Thursday will be non-traditional and I'm excited to try out some new recipes. Friday will be our standard: earl grey brined turkey, cornbread and sourdough dressing with bacon, leeks, and red onion, some kind of roasted vegetable, mashed potatoes, lots of gravy, my mom's cranberry sauce. Drool. She also told me to invite my bestie over, so that will be fun. And we're going to take DS to her house for a bit on Friday so her parents can meet him.
I'm really excited for Thanksgiving.
Eta: Oh. I'm not Canadian. Apparently that's how excited I am. I don't even read thread titles completely.
My family isn't doing thanksgiving this weekend because my dad has a procedure on Tuesday morning and he needs to 'prep' before. So we will probably end up doing it next weekend. H's fam is doing dinner on Sunday, but they have a big family dinner every Sunday, so it's not really that special.