Spitfire
I'll Lock Up
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Not ready at all. Not a tradition o'er here either. (Christmas is the big thing)
I usually can't make it home for Thanksgiving, which is okay. In my family Thanksgiving was the runner-up holiday. Christmas with one parent, Thanksgiving with the other. Alternate the next year. More food to eat though with all the parties. So I'll do what I do most years. Accept an invitation to a friends, or make reservations at a restaurant.
One big benefit. Either way, there will be no alpha-female contest in the kitchen. Which is good, because I hate bloodshed over the dressing.
We followed a similar pattern: Christmas with aunt and uncle and cousins, then we hosted Thanksgiving; next year, we hosted Christmas and then they had Thanksgiving. It was great, imprinting on me that holidays meant family, food, and fun.
Now that most of the last generation are gone, I miss the get-togethers, but am looking forward to a new set of family members as time goes by.
Booze makes everything better when it comes to family during the holidays
Depends on who is doing the drinking.:eeek:lol
Touche! :fencing:
Nah, it is just that I have seen my share of turkeys that take flight spontaneously.lol
lol
I haven't seen that, but I have an aunt that burnt the top of the marshmallows on her yams one year and started kicking the oven and yelling obscenities
With Thanksgiving fast approaching...
Something that really irritates me is when people "talk shop" at the dinner table. This happens everytime there's a family get together with my in-laws. My sisters-in-law work at the same place, so their conversation invariably goes to shop talk. Now keep in mind that these two women despise each other (my SIL has huge father issues--she hates her pa but married a guy just like him! She hates her brother's wife because she had the "gall" to "compete" for his attention; oh, the Elektra Complex is a strong one). Anyway, they talk endlessly about work and the rest of us sit idly by and are excluded from the conversation. Even if we try and participate, we're shut out. Then, if the topic somehow manages to get changed, my SIL will awkwardly steer the talk back to what she wants to discuss. My SIL has such low self-esteem issues that she takes on a passive-aggressive nature *and* a superiority complex!
My Mother-in-Law enables this conversation, because she takes such pity on her eldest daughter and so whatever the daughter wants to discuss, the mother, in true maternal fashion, goes along with it. They've ruined every major holiday until recently, when my wife and I just find alternate plans and are finally free of them!
The last several holidays have been truly wonderful without them.
I hope your family get togethers are more fun than this; are they?
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Abbreviation Key:
MIL= Mother-in Law
SIL=Sister-in-Law