I am worried about Thanksgiving. Now that we have Attila, am I going to have to go back to sitting at the kids table? We have a little booster chair for her, but one of us is going to have to sit next to her to help her out. I am afraid that is going to mean going back to the kids table. As the oldest cousin on my dad's side, I was the one who broke the kid's table barrier in the first place. I think I was 16 or 17 and I declared that I was going to sit at the adult table and no one was going to stop me. One of my uncles graciously said "Great, have a ball, I am going to sit over here with the kids and eat all of their potatoes." Though these days, there are really not that many kids to fill up the second table, so it's not as much of a demotion as it once might have been. It's just going to be a change and I don't like change- especially when it comes to holiday traditions.
Also, my MIL has decided to CANCEL Thanksgiving. Canceled! Can you believe it? She always hosts Christmas and doesn't really want to be responsible for Thanksgiving every year too. (Fair enough) She had been switching off with a SIL- but the last 3 years or so, the SIL has had some excuse not to have it, so it's been at MIL's house anyway. I guess this year she had just had enough and there were a couple of people who couldn't make it anyway, so they just decided not to have it.
On the one hand, it will be nice that we won't have to split the day between two families, on the other hand, we won't get nearly as much pie as we've become accustomed to. I know that my MIL thinks that me and my SIL should join in on the Thanksgiving hosting duties- but if I host Dude's family, then I don't get to see mine, so that is not really going to work. Not to mention the endless ribbing I would get from my family for never hosting them. Besides, right now I am expected to just show up and bring easy things, pop, rolls, salad, or a pie. That is a sweet deal that I am not going to give up easily.
November 20, 2006
Thanksgiving
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I haven't had Thanksgiving with my family in 6 years. I always have to work so I can't leave town. My first Thanksgiving with hubbie was at his friend/coworker's house with other astronomers not with family and was a big nice dinner. It was only 3 weeks into our relationship. I was really looking forward to it this year since I know everyone so much better and it doesn't seem to be happening. My co-worker is also intown this year and not going to be with her family so she wants to have dinner with us. Why am I not looking forward to it? I'd almost rather just have dinner with hubbie.
Cancel Thanksgiving?!?! Dang! Even though it's just the three of us, I'm still making some turkey (not a whole one though), sweet potatoes, and a pie. Also going to get some cranberries in there somewhere. Even though I can't find fresh or even canned, I can get dried, so it might end up being an apple and cranberry pie.
Could you do a Saturday Thanksgiving for the other side? That way The Dude's family, but you would still have Turkey Day with your own (even if you get demoted to kids' table). Then you and VeggieGirl (does she have an official nickname yet here?) could cohost it, but make everybody else bring pie, etc. *shrug* Just a thought. Since my mom is a nurse and SOMEBODY always has to work on holidays at a nursing home, I've gotten used to celebrating on off days when necessary.
Thankfully, everyone has forgotten my bold offer last year to host.
This year Puck and I are eschewing Thanksgiving in favor of ripping up our bathroom floor and laying a new one. Long days of manual labor, ceramic dust everywhere, and NO TOILET.
Feel better? :-)
No toilet? Ack! I guess I know what you will be thankful for when the weekend is over. ;)
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