We had our Thanksgiving with our med school boy and his GF over a week ago. Food tasted great.
I’ve never needed to celebrate much on “the” day humans ascribe to it. Christmas and birthdays can move to fit a schedule better.
The only exception is our wedding Anniversary. That one we always celebrate on the day and everything else that comes up which might get in the way is pushed aside. We go away that day. Even this year were able to snag a really nice AirBnB along “our” creek further downstream. The weather was terrific so we were able to kayak out to the mouth of the Susquehanna River (3 hours or so?). It was awesome even if it wasn’t somewhere exotic. We had never done it before and we had the creek to ourselves.
We have all the fixings here to treat ourselves to another Thanksgiving dinner though. Even if we don’t go to FIL’s, we’ll eat well again. It’s just more of a Thanksgiving when more of us were together. It’s a turkey dinner with all the fixings and a lot of leftovers otherwise.