Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone

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<p>Have a great Thanksgiving holiday. Some members of my family fly overseas today, but I’ll be home with the older children. My sister cooks for the whole family in town, which is greatly appreciated by my wife, my mom, and me. </p>

<p>Safe travels to all of you who are traveling.</p>

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<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all! </p>

<p>We’re having a slightly goofy one: Cooking and eating our own turkey dinner at the home of friends/neighbors who’re away for the week, because our kitchen has no appliances, no running water, no cabinets, no electricity or gas, and oh yeah, no back wall. :slight_smile: (Demolition began on Monday.) It’ll be an adventure.</p>

<p>D (college sophomore) is home, and S1 (hs jr) and S2 (kindergarten, yes really) are as thrilled as DH and I are. All far-flung relatives are in good health (there have been many years when this was not so) and having adventurous or fun turkey dinners of their own. We are truly, truly thankful for too many good circumstances to count.</p>

<p>Here’s hoping all of you have joyous celebrations, too!</p>

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<p>Happy Thanksgiving All!</p>

<p>Our family here in GA is just DD and I, so we usually just do a turkey breast so we are not eating turkey for a month. However…I had to get all sentimental and mushy since it is her last Thanksgiving before going off to college, so I decided to do the whole bird this year. FYI, I have never attempted this without somebody else (my mom) being here! I just had to send D to store for meat thermometer, didn’t even own one, lol! So here’s to my first turkey!</p>

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<p>Happy Thanksgiving! Our son is home from college, and some relatives are coming here for dinner this evening. I have been cooking. Lots of food here!</p>

<p>GA2012MOM, good luck with your first turkey! Oh, and I guess you will be eating for a month this year!</p>

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<p>And we are going the opposite direction of GA2012MOM, we are doing two turkey breasts instead of a whole bird. WashMom (the chief cook) is much calmer this year, and is still in bed at 8am.</p>

<p>Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! For your historical pleasure, the text of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation for the first official Thanksgiving holiday:</p>

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<p>Our family has just enter the new phase of Holidays…</p>

<p>College age son is a senior instate here in NJ.<br>
First Thanksgiving he asked if we’d mind him missing Thanksgiving with the family so he could visit long time girlfriend instead.
She’s in grad school in Montreal.
So, we’ll be missing him this year. Normal development, we know, still a bit sad over it.
He made the trip yesterday in 7 hours by car and LOVED the skyline of the city as he pulled into town at 8pm. (I’m impressed he had known to get this passport in order last summer!).</p>

<p>A Happy Thanksgiving to all here at CC!</p>

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<p>about 30 folks at my parents this year. I’d say half a dozen are engineers, so you can tell exactly how much fun this is gonna be :sigh:</p>

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<p>We have D, her fiance and fiance’s mother (meeting us for the first time). WildChild stayed in Philadelphia.
We all ran the local 5K this morning, and this year no one wound up in the ambulance (last year it was WildChild with an asthma attack since he had left his inhaler at college), we all finished and it didn’t rain! I won 2nd place in my age group in my 2nd race post knee surgery, so I’m pleased. D improved 3 minutes on last year’s time. H, who doesn’t run at all anymore because of sore feet (and old age) (he’s a cyclist) was right on my heels but had the good sense not to beat me! Fiance and his mother did a fast walk and enjoyed the morning.
All in all- a success.
Time to pack in the food now!</p>

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<p>I appreciate the quote WashDad. It WAS a pleasure. D’s best friend and family are coming to the ranch. I have managed to get the water back on from the well fire last Friday (but not until last night at 7 p.m. Nothing like cutting it close.)</p>

<p>This year I am planning a reading of the “Moving Story” I told here on CC. D is blissfully unaware. I’m snickering like that cartoon dog (he-he-he-he-he).</p>

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<p>Cur and Everyone, Happy Thanksgiving!
If that wonderful story doesn’t have everyone in stitches by the third sentence, there is no hope for the world! Have a great day everyone!</p>

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<p>Curmudgeon, maybe I’m not firing on all cylinders, but I can’t find the ‘moving story’, could you please provide a link? </p>

<p>Thank you</p>

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<p>THANK THE LORD I DO NOT HAVE TO TRAVEL THIS YEAR! It feels so good to do absolutely nothing.</p>

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<p>Here it is Karen. Be kind. I’m not a pro. I performed the piece (LOL) at dinner. It was well received by almost all. ;)</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/385663-moving-story.html?highlight=spit[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/385663-moving-story.html?highlight=spit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I searched on my name and “spit” and there it was. :wink: (There’s also a much different story about my dogs later in the thread.)</p>

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<p>happy thanksgiving to all. can report that dh and ds safely fryed a turkey for the very first time…there were some anxious moments but no firetruck had to be called :)</p>

<p>note to self…next year…be sure that when i do the propane tank exchange at the hardware store that the clerk actually gives me a full tank and not an empty one ;)<br>
thank goodness for the local drug store who was opened today for business with full tanks for exchange (of course, the hardware store was closed) …and who definitely diverted a near thanksgiving disaster !!!</p>

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<p>Curmudgeon, thanks so much. We are all wondering what your pen name is? Surely you have stuff published in print somewhere? I loved laughing over your story, and I mean laughing! </p>

<p>Silly me, I searched using ‘moving day’ instead of ‘spit’.</p>