What are your plans for Thanksgiving?

[stacylynn]

So Thanksgiving is a week away and I was curious to see how you all are doing Thanksgiving this year. Are you doing Thanksgiving as usual, scaling back, or staying home?

We are still debating what to do... Baby boy will be just shy of 4 weeks and I have an large family that does a big get together and I am really not comfortable with him being exposed to that many people or germs, but I am not sure I want to 100% skip everything either. Add in figuring out the logistics of nursing with that many people around and that all leans me towards showing up for maybe an hour or so.

So how are you celebrating Turkey Day this year?

[BJ Dealer]

My dad keeps trying to convince us to fly it drive 9 hours (that's without stopping for baby) to my aunts house. Uh, no. I would if he was older, but not at a month old. So we are going to my mom's house. Just us, mom and step dad, step bro and his gf and her daughter. And only a 25 minute drive.

[iamgroot]

We're doing what we've done every year since Sapling was born. Thanksgiving with my parents and sister this weekend, then braving the nine hour drive up to WI on Tuesday for 'Thanksmas,' as we call it, with H's family. Sapling did pretty well with the drive that first year, and Seedling is only five days younger than she was so....fingers crossed. The drive will probably take us like four hours longer than it normally does. Should make H nice and crazy.

When we're up there we're touring Lambeau the Friday after thanksgiving. I'm hoping to run into Rogers and convince him to run away with me and adopt my children. Sorry, H.

[peachey]

Super lame turkey day as usual for us. Our families or far away. We will make a small dinner with turkey for me and E, and DH will just eat sides ( he is vegan).

ETA: DH thought about flying home with E, and leaving me with the baby. I think it would have been good for him, he says he was worried about leaving me, but I think he was nervous about wrangling E on the planes without me.

[shadylady]

We are going to hubs' big family get together, maybe not staying over night like we usually do though. Then Saturday my family is coming here for another thanksgiving. My mom said she'd do all the cooking though

[aves0708]

We normally switch having Thanksgiving and Christmas with DH's family and my family. DH's family only live 2 hours away, but his sister is hosting this year and she's only an hour away, so we are considering heading there for Thanksgiving. I'm not committed to going yet though, for the same reasons you're asking about (lots of people being there, exposure to sickness, etc). This year DH's family gathering is going to be smaller than normal though (just 5 adults plus us if we come) so it seems manageable. My LO is at the point where she gets easily over stimulated though, resulting in really challenging evenings. Right now we are leaning towards going for an hour or two at most, but it will really depend on what kind of week she is having next week and if anyone is sick. I just told DH's mom and sister that we won't make a decision until the day before.

[starry]

We are driving four hours away (with no stops, likely a lot longer stopping to nurse). So... it will probably be a shit show. Luckily we are staying at a hotel and only for one night. I am just dreading it because it is right at 6 weeks old which was the worst stage in DD1's life. Hopefully DD2 does not repeat history.

[Smootiepie]

We are staying home. I didn't want to make the 6 hour drive to my parents house with an 8 week old. My sister and her hubby will be coming up for the day and have offered to help with all the cooking.

Christmas is another story - I promised we would make the drive back for it. Already freaking out about the logistics of it...

[superchargedmama]

Nov 19, 2015 14:58:47 GMT -5 iamgroot said:

We're doing what we've done every year since Sapling was born. Thanksgiving with my parents and sister this weekend, then braving the nine hour drive up to WI on Tuesday for 'Thanksmas,' as we call it, with H's family. Sapling did pretty well with the drive that first year, and Seedling is only five days younger than she was so....fingers crossed. The drive will probably take us like four hours longer than it normally does. Should make H nice and crazy.

When we're up there we're touring Lambeau the Friday after thanksgiving. I'm hoping to run into Rogers and convince him to run away with me and adopt my children. Sorry, H.[/quote
When you see Rogers aka future DH will you please ask him to pull it together and stop with the losing streak. DH can't take it and I can't take the pouty, 12 year old boy he turns into. Thanks ;-)


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[mrsh82414]

We're having family here... Yay... DH really wanted to have turkey and we can't go to my aunts wed night thanksgiving bc DD is too young. She will just be 3 weeks. I'll have to bf twice while we are there if we were Togo and there will be 25 people wanting to hold her. No thanks! Also I go to sleep at 6pm so going there for a 6pm dinner would be rough. DH knows I am not doing anything for thanksgiving and family members are bringing things. We will eat at 1pm and I am kicking everyone out for my 6pm bedtime

[kc730]

We are doing lunch at my dads and then having a friendsgiving that night. Not sure what my in laws are doing yet.


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[traversity]

I'm doing nothing on thanksgiving day. H is working 12 hours.
My brother and family and my bff are showing up on Friday and we are doing our holiday meal on Saturday.


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[vshumway]

All of our family, except for SIL, lives 7 hours away. We stopped going year ago for thanksgiving. It is too far with too much traffic. We usually do SILs, but they will be out of town. DHs parents are driving down and it will just be the 4 of us plus the two kids. Nice and quiet. And it will be nice for his parents to spend time with our kids. They usually have to split their time between our house and SILs house (when we aren't together), and usually SIL wins because her kids are a little older. So they don't have to worry about that this time. It'll be nice for my kids to get their undivided attention.

I know that probably sounds whiny and bratty, but there is a whole backstory that goes along with it!

[Squishy622]

I'm coming to somesay's house.

JK.

We usually travel to family but not this year, obviously. Also there was a LOT of drama at last year's Thanksgiving dinner so no one is eager to re-live that... we're usually a no drama family and it was bad. Anyways, ILs are coming up here and we're going to have Thanksgiving dinner at a distant relative's house. Should be nice.

[mommytoone]

We were going to go to my sister's, but she fell a couple weeks ago and broke her hip and ended up having to have a hip replacement... Then we were just going to go out somewhere instead of cooking, well SOMEHOW I got pulled into cooking once again this year... Which I kind of don't mind because I ALWAYS make everything exactly like my mom did and it reminds me of her cooking Thanksgiving meals..