Thanksgiving is always kind of blah for me because we have no family around. But we just got an awesome invite to watch the Macy's parade along the parade route, indoors!, so we don't have to be cold! So excited to take DD!
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WOW! That will be so much fun, @andrea!!!!
....can we come too?
We have no plans. Holidays are such a pain since my parents are close and his aren't and mine always want to see us if his aren't here (which they're not. ever.) but then he gets jealous because my parents are always here. Sigh. It doesn't help that my brother lives 18,000,000 miles away (ok, that's an exaggeration, but still) so he can't take up some of the holidays when we just want to have them on our own. Maybe we'll pretend we're going somewhere and then just hibernate in the house all day....
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Our family is far away too and we always spend Thanksgiving with friends. But this year we could very well spend it in the hospital since I'm due Nov 25th!
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Fun!!
We haven't made any definitive plans this year because my due date is the next day! So I have no idea if we will be home, in the hospital, or hanging with a new baby
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@mediagirl: sure, if hibernating doesn't work out, come to New York!!
@MamaMoose: exciting!! I know 4 people born on Nov 24th, including DH and his mom. I wonder what day it will be for you!?!
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@highwire: yay, another Tday baby!! Will be thinking of you.
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@Andrea: wow! How awesome will that be?
This year is thanksgiving with my family in NYC. Technically it's undecided yet if we're going but I really hope we do. My mom hasn't seen M for over a month already so if we don't go for thanksgiving she won't see her till Chinese New Year.Regardless we'll def be making a turkey dinner!
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@Andrea: That sounds super exciting! We typically do thanksgiving with my family, christmas at home (with the IL's later in the day), and then new years/late christmas with my family.
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This is the year that my whole family gets together. We alternate every other year so if people need to go to in-laws. We just hang out all day and then dinner around 5 or 6. My Aunt and Uncle host it, and have a big hill in the backyard. So they started a tradition of skiiing down the hill on cardboard boxes. The kids and adults love it.
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Fun!
We're staying home and I'm gonna cook. Will invite whoever's in town!
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@MamaMoose: @highwire: so exciting!!! You could have little turkey day babies!!
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@Andrea: ooh! We watch the parade and the NYE Ball drop every year from DHs office right there! Indoor access is the best! Where are you going to be watching?!
We are hosting Thanksgiving at our house this year because we are slated to close on our new home on November 8th!!!!
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Hopefully at home with our LO! (My brother will be in town from NYC too!).... either that or I'll be miserably overly past my due date!
We usually host dinner, but my aunt is taking it on this year -- if I'm overdue and feeling 'ok' we might stop over there~
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We do the same thing every year. Turkey trot in the morning, brunch at my moms. She has a huge spread with about 50-60 people over and we stay all day there until lo's nap time. After nap we go to my inlaws for the traditional thanksgiving dinner.
Love thanksgiving!
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@Smurfette: the sledding sounds awesome!
@LivsMama: at Bryant Park. Apparently they changed the route and it goes down 6th Ave now? Congrats on the house closing!! For some reason I thought you had recently bought a house...or maybe it was that you moved out of the city?
@mrsjyw: I didn't know your bro was in NYC!
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Aww, that sounds awesome! We always just do Thanksgiving at home by ourselves, but my mom is actually coming this year, so I'm psyched about that! I love Thanksgiving because I cook massive amounts of food and get to use all of my wedding china serving pieces
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We are going to NY to spend Thanksgiving with DH's mom. A family friend will host the actual dinner. I'm pretty nervous, it will be the longest car trip we've taken with LO and no idea how she will sleep somewhere new, but this is the tradeoff for getting to spend Christmas with my family, so I'll suck it up.
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@Andrea: So fun! Sad I won't be able to ski this year. I am jealous you get to see the parade live. I would love to do that one day. I watch it every year.
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We'll be driving from the bay area down to LA to spend the holiday with Hubs' family. Since we'll have LO right before Christmas, neither our little family or Hubs' parents will be going down for Christmas. Normally we alternate Christmas and T-day, but my mom will be working both, so we'll do Christmas at home.
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@Andrea: oh wow I didnt know they changed it! No biggie though, I dont know that I want to haul my in laws, DH and Liv all into the city then back out into NJ again. But Liv would really love it. Hmmm. Decisions. She was there last year but was only 4 months old so she didnt get it.
Thanks! We moved almost 2 years ago. We had bought another house a few months back, but the seller pulled out 3 weeks before we closed. such a mess. So praying this one doesnt fall through again
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@Andrea: that is awesome! i've always wanted to watch the parade in person.
we'll wake up early & have cinnamon rolls, then watch the parade (on tv!). then we'll head to my mom's for thanksgiving lunch, and then my mil's for thanksgiving dinner. this is the first year that we're not doing thanksgiving lunch at my grandma's and i'm super bummed about it -- it's so sad to me that my lo will never have the experience of thanksgiving at my grandma's.
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We already had thanksgiving (Canada, it was a few weeks ago) had a small dinner with my mom since the rest of my side of the family was scattered all over the place (dad was in Vegas, sister and BIL were in Greece). The next day we went to the zoo with DH's family and had a pucnic lunch.
For November thanksgiving (since I like to celebrate both:) I will be watching the Lions win some football!!
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Not really sure. I live far away from my immediate family, so not possible to go there. Last year my cousin & his wife, who live about 2.5 hours away, invited me over. I hope they do again this year, as they have not met DH, and they just moved & have a 6-month-old baby girl! If not, we will probably go to a grad school potluck that is organized every year.
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@Andrea: That's stinking awesome!
I'm sure we'll run all over town trying to see both DH's & my family (parents on both sides are divorced but all live in town), I'll get to look at a bunch of food I can't eat, and get berated by multiple people as to why I'm not eating (mspi diet due to ebfing & dd). I'm not really looking forward to it. =/
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@Andrea: I'm totally jealous of your parade viewing. That's going to be great! DD will love it!
For Canadian Thanksgiving my parents came up from the states and we went to the cottage to enjoy the fall leaves and then had a dinner with DH's half-siblings and FIL. It was really nice.
For American Thanksgiving. We were going to go to my parents in RI, but my cousin in Cali is getting married so no one will be there. Since is a long plane flight and I'll be 34 weeks I can't go so DH and I will be home. It's also his birthday so I'm planning on making him a nice dinner of whatever he wants, turkey or not. And then celebrating with his friends on the weekend.
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Every year I make a full thanksgiving dinner for a local home for homeless war veterans. I make turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, rolls, mac and cheese, green bean casserole, roasted yams and squash and pie all from scratch. It really means a lot to me to get to do this for these guys every year.
My parents host Thanksgiving every year, so we go up there in the afternoon. I told my mom LO would be eating purees by Thanksgiving and now she is OBSESSED with making LO her own little pureed Thanksgiving dinner lol
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Not sure yet. We usually have my dad and his wife over, and I make a buttload of food. I was really looking forward to it this year because we bought our house in April and have a huge and awesome kitchen, but then they told me that they may be going to her daughter's house for Thanksgiving. So that will bum me out... but I'll probably still cook a buttload of food for the two of us
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We're doing Thanksgiving in NJ with DH's grandmother. I haven't broken the news yet to my mother, I know she's going to be sad to not be spending LOs first turkey day together, but we decided she'll get Christmas and she sees LO way more than his family does.
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We'll be spending thanksgiving with my family about 3 hours away from where we live. It will be LOs first big trip. She'll be just shy of 12 weeks old, and I'm definitely nervous about the car ride and staying somewhere unfamiliar. We'll come back here on Saturday and probably have another dinner at DH's aunts house. Then we'll do the opposite for Christmas.
We used to do both families in one day, but that will be way too hard with LO now.
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@yoursilverlining: That is so awesome that you do that! Totally made me tear up thinking about how much that must mean to that home & those veterans!
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Way cool about the parade!
I will probably be doing some shopping on Thursday and Friday. Friday evening we're doing dinner at my parents with my siblings. Then Saturday going up to my aunts to do dinner with my dads side
I'm really looking forward to it
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That'd be so awesome! Watching the Macy's parade there is one of my bucket list items! And it's indoors?! Lucky duck!!
We're currently planning on visiting my parents for Thanksgiving. They live 3.5 hours away and I hardly see them.
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@LivsMama: ah, I must've been thinking about your last house! Liv would love the parade this year but that sounds like quite an operation to get everyone there. Maybe you should just relax and enjoy your new home this year!
@photojane: Mmmmm cinnamon rolls, do you make your own?
@yoursilverlining: That is a wonderful tradition. Very cool.
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@andrea - I am so jealous, I definitely hope to see the Macy's parade live one day!
@yoursilvinglining - that is amazing that you do that! What a great way to spend Thanksgiving.
We have not had a chance to go backpacking this year because my husband was training for a big triathlon all spring, so we may take the extra days off work and go on a backpacking trip. I should be about 14 weeks so I really hope my m/s and fatigue ease up by then!
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The past two years we have been going over to my husband's aunt's house. They are they only family we have in town, and in the state. It's a small number of people and lots of fun. They decorate their tree that day too, so we help with that.
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