Who will you spend it with? Do you have to travel?
We are staying local and we will eat at my MIL’s house. I think my FIL (they ate divorced) will join us too!
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We will actually be on vacation! It’s the first time we won’t be home for Thanksgiving but we wanted to take our annual trip when I can still fly so we had to do it now.
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Staying home. DH’s grandmother is coming, and a friend family who aren’t American, so don’t usually do much to celebrate. So it should be fun and their kids are the same age as ours, and enough people to feel like an event but not so many that it’s overwhelming.
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We are traveling to be away from family. Just DH, DD and I at a snowy resort for a week.
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@youboots: Ah, So nice! Wish we could do that!
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Dinner with the in laws:(
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We are staying at a cabin with the in-laws.... me, dh and two boys get to share a room.
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It's lo's first Thanksgiving and we'll be with my parents at their house! So glad I don't have to host or cook anything or clean! And my parents' house is so much bigger than ours, so lo will be all over the place. Can't wait to give her baby pieces of turkey!
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We're staying home just the three of us on Thanksgiving day. The Friday after DD and I are heading up to my mom's house for the weekend but DH has to work...
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We go to my ILs. We will stay at least one night, maybe 2 if things are going well.
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For the past five or so years I've cooked thanksgiving for a homeless veterans transitional housing unit in our area; then I go to my parents for family thanksgiving. Best of both worlds: get to cook to my heart's content, then chill and let someone else cook for me!
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@yoursilverlining: That's so nice you cook for veterans! My husband is a veteran and is involved with veteran nonprofits and there's just not enough done for them, so that's nice to hear
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I'll be 33 weeks pregnant, so I'm going nowhere, except to bed to take a nap
hah, super looking forward to that one. MIL wanted us to take the Amtrak for 8 hours each way to see her (um, no), and my parents weren't happy when I declined to take two long flights to see them, given that the airlines would technically still let me fly. But nope, every single year of my adult life I have gone to visit one of them for Thanksgiving. Secretly glad that the baby is providing an excuse - work has been draining lately, and I can't wait to just relax for a bit.
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DH has suggested hosting at our place. I hope that works out, and I'm so excited! It feels like some kind of rite of passage. We've always gone to my parents' because they have more space. Being able to host feels, I don't know, more grown up somehow? Plus, I really hate traveling with the kids, it takes so much fun out of celebrating for me...
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DH and I will have Thanksgiving at our house by ourselves, and then we spend the rest of the weekend in the bigger city a few hours away. We go there to celebrate a beer release (well, DH loves it. I tag along for the fun) and to visit my in-laws.
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We will have a 2-day old (give or take), so we are staying home this year. I'm so excited! I have a complicates relationship with my family and my mom is fairly toxic. This is the 2nd year in a row I'm doing thanksgiving at home (I had surgery right before the holiday last year). My FIL will be here too, so it should be a nice cozy meal, just the 5 of us.
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My inlaws (3) are coming for a week. Since I was already making dinner for 7 I invited my dad’s family. Now we’re at 12 and I’m still waiting to hear on 4. I’m glad my family is coming but I’m intimidated by the number of guests. We don’t have a very big space for hosting.
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DH has to work so the kids and I are flying to the Midwest to see my parents and my brother and his family. Since I am not totally crazy we are going Sunday-Saturday and hoping to avoid the busiest travel days. I will try my best to avoid taking over the kitchen but we will see how it goes. Sometimes there is a planning vacuum and it is hard not to jump in!
@Corduroy: @Mama Bird: there was a period in my 20s pre-DH when I hosted at my little apartment and they were some of my favorite thanksgivings! It feels backwards to be traveling again but oh well. Have fun hosting!
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Heading to the beach in Spain. So no turkey this year for DH and I but so glad for a new place to visit and warmer weather.
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When I first moved abroad, I had lofty plans about Thanksgiving. But no one has the day off here and extending it to the weekend means it coincides with an early Christmas smorgasbord, a local tradition. It kind of takes the novelty out of it when your guests already have plans to stuff themselves the following weekend. Then there's the hassle of finding a large-ish turkey ... not to mention having no time at all once you have kids. So yeh, I've kind of let that tradition go, sadly. Maybe when LO gets older ...
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We call Thanksgiving “our” holiday. All our family is 8+ hours away, and we do an extended trip at a Christmas. So, we stay home and smoke a turkey breast and make all our favorite fixings, and then decorate for Christmas. We also don’t allow anyone to come visit. It’s so nice!
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@yoursilverlining: That is fantastic! I would love to get my dad involved in something like that, he's always asking for ways to get involved and he's actually quite a good cook, so it might work.
Going to do some research!
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This year I'm hosting. So far we have 6 confirmed guests and an invite out for another 3. I'm excited to see everyone, but am anxious with how LO will do with a house full of strangers.
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@SugarplumsMom: I know exactly how you feel! When I was abroad, I spent close to $100 on a turkey from a local butcher that had to special order it. And then trying to fit that in my tiny oven, oh!
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No travel for us as everyone's in the same metro area, thankfully. On Thanksgiving we have lunch with my in-laws and dinner with my dad. The next day we're doing dinner with my mom.
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Hosting my family (mom,dad, 3 siblings), plus my grandma and 2 uncles on Thursday. Dinner followed by mini birthday party for DS's 3rd. Then Sunday hosting again for a 3rd birthday party with DH's side. Black Friday shopping in there somewhere probably.
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Too many houses not enough time so thankfully this will be our second Thanksgiving at home! We have an open door policy though so all are welcome to celebrate with us
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We always have thanksgiving with close friends of ours. But we recently bought a new house and I’m hoping our kitchen remodel is done by then because we’d love to be able to host this year! (We’ve never been able to because our last house was too small)
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We're taking a long trip to my hometown, leaving this Saturday and staying through the weekend after Thanksgiving. We're taking over my parents' 2 bedroom apartment and they're renting a 1-bedroom airbnb nearby, which means we won't be too cramped (so nice of them!). My brother, sil, and nieces live in my parents' old house but they won't actually be in town for Thanksgiving itself. Then my aunt and cousins will also be coming up after Thanksgiving. So it'll be a fun, family-filled week, plus my bff is in my hometown
I'm excited. We invited mil and sil to join us and they declined, their loss!
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@looch: I heard of someone flying to Germany just to find a turkey - literally stuffing it in her carry-on. And it can only fit in a specialty ordered oven!
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We're stay home for lunch, but might visit MIL in the afternoon. We may or may not have friends over who don't have anywhere else to go.
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@SugarplumsMom: awh, maybe in a few years!
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We'll be going to Hubs' grandparents' house for Thanksgiving, about an hour (maybe 1.5 hours) drive away. It'll be loud with too many people and too many dogs and my youngest will probably pee on the floor!
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My parents are coming and staying for a few days. And we’re all going to a restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner!
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I'm hosting Friendsgiving! We'll have 8 adults and 7 kids at the house. My house is the location simply because we have the most space, but other than that, we're really just splitting all the duties. I'm not even making the Turkey because I hate cooking them! My friend's husband is coming over to fry one. All us girls are running a 5 mile race in the morning and then we'll head home to our own houses to cook our assigned menu items, and gather around 3 to eat and watch football. I'm beyond excited.
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I have claimed Thanksgiving. I am Jewish, and my husband was raised Christian. So, Thanksgiving is the only holiday we "share". So, we host it at home. We go to his relatives' for Christmas, and we go to my mom's for Passover.
I think we are going to do the same thing as last year: spatchcock the turkey! It was amazing, and I don't usually like turkey that much.
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Because we created a rule that we are home with our son every Christmas, we travel every Thanksgiving. Always a different southern city where all of DW’s southern family gathers. This year it’s Charlottesville! I’m excited. There will be about 35 people and a lot of holiday hustle and bustle. I’ve heard the day before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year but I don’t mind because it feels festive
Oh and we’ll celebrate DS’s second birthday - it’s on Thanksgiving Day this year!
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@Ina85: It really is so much fun and SO rewarding. Our family comes from a line of veterans back to the American Revolution so it feels good to be able to give back in some real way to them; and to help these guys who often feel (understandably) that they have been discarded.
@looch: I found this place just by researching my area. The house is run by the non-profit Veterans Inc which manages transitional housing for veterans in several states. Additionally, I know that our largest food pantry/soup kitchen/teen shelter also has a veterans division and a separate new small veterans home. So, opportunities are out there for sure but may require a bit of research. Most people I’ve come across in the nonprofit world are happy to try to help connect you if you make it clear that your offer is serious
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My husband has to work at least half a day on Thanksgiving day (still waiting to find out if he can get half the day off), so we're staying home and I'll cook something small for just the 3 of us. If he can get some time off, we may start putting up some Christmas decorations. Over the weekend, we'll be traveling (within a couple of hours) to spend Saturday with my family and Sunday with his.
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Spending it with my family in the morning, then DH's side afternoon/night.
hah, super looking forward to that one. 
I'm excited. We invited mil and sil to join us and they declined, their loss!
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