Thanksgiving Weekend Plans?
 

Hello,

:) :hug: :)

Do you have Thanksgiving Plans that you want to share? :heartthrob:

Mari

we are going to a pot luck but don't know what to bring just yet...they will tell us. last year I brought green bean casserole that I cooked all day in the crock pot and had mush...sigh ended up adding 5 cans of green beans at the last minute and fresh crispy onions and it turned out great!
they are serving an organic turkey that they will brine over night.
very good food last year. makes me hungry thinking about it.
bizi

Well, we the boys and hubby and I are all getting together at
Devin's house.

Sabrina and I went Thanksgiving shopping yesterday. And we will
help do some of the cooking this year.

So its a combined effort. I am definately making green bean casserole,
and corn casserole. Still have to buy desserts.

And I guess we may need another ham. Seems my son, says the one
he is getting from work probably wont be big enough.

So its part of life. A turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, (yams), green bean
casserole, corn casserole, those special eggs, pies, cake, rolls,

Pop, and tea for sure.

And other things. Not sure what else we bought.:grouphug:

Donna

going to see a heart warming film tonight:
http://southernscreen.org/site/event...southern-wild/
should be good!
bizi

Donna,
Shopping now and then heading over to Devin's house on Thursday is good.

Bizi,
Have fun at the pot luck.
The link you sent looks great. I want to figure out a way to see that movie.

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Hubby and are on doing what we would normally do on a day when we have off from work --- stay home and hang out. I am hoping that my anxiety clears off soon.

M

Our homeschool group is having a Thanksgiving potluck Wed night & then on Thursday my family is getting together at my aunt's house. I'm bringing green bean casserole w/the fried onions on top & a pumpkin pie to both get togethers.

Last year I did the crazy day after Thanksgiving shopping with my aunt but I'm not up for that this year. Maybe we'll put up the Christmas tree next Saturday. I'm in denial at how close Christmas is.

what an amazing movie. This little girl could act! It was so well done I thought it was a documentary!
bizi

Ok guys I'm googling green bean casserole. With so many votes it has to be yummy.

Thanks, bizi, for the film link!
I sure hope that we OverHere get an opportunity soon to view this film!
I am keen to see this one!
Love to support the young, talented, independent filmakers, who can make it happen on a shoestring budget! Looks great.

Theta

It comes out on video next month so you should be able to rent it then?????
bizi

I may go shopping some during the days after. Its a ritual.

But it will be with my husband and Derrick this year.

And I'll probably watch Will for Devin and Sabrina on Saturday.
So they can do some shopping.

Donna:grouphug::hug:

I look forward to this!
 

Thanks, bizi! I'll keep an eye out for it & look forward to viewing it, yes!

I'm doing fine, other than some pain in my hips & lumbar back.
Have been 'nurturing' that with hot water bottle at night, and Salonpas Hot wraps during the day. A friend just loaned me her heating pad & that feels good here tonight.

I doggy-sat today & made fresh tomato-basil bisque, which I dropped by to a neighbor, to share, this evening.

It's chilly yet pleasant enough to have the sliding glass doors open still at this hour. A good day & evening yes.

Wishing you each & all the same.

I hope you are able to sleep thru the night pain free.
((((HUGS))))
bizi

I need Wednesday off to gather all I need. Hope someone gets a turkey. We usually deep fry, so good but the oil I'd $$$. Honey ham, potatoes , white and a can of Bruce's Yams. Corn, green bean casserole, sausage stuffing, cranberry sauce and those Hawiian rolls. No back, and won't forget to either back them, or that hey are still in the oven, AFTER we are eating.

I have been working 7 days a week with insurance claims, thanks to mainly Sandy's winds.
Love to eat earlier then 6:00pm this year.
A day of rest for us, even if we have to cook and clean up!
Blessings to all,
Di
I still wish we old just volunteer, but three are sick and I am bare,y standing from pain.

Hi Di. Please get some rest when you can. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Hello all from Canada, well we love your Thanksgiving day, my hubby and about 12 of our closest friends take the day off work for a feast and football! I am cooking turkey with all the trimmings and friends will bring sides my friend makes a mean green bean casserole, and desserts, can,t wait!
Happy Thanksgivings all!
Bunz

Hello all from Canada, well we love your Thanksgiving day, my hubby and about 12 of our closest friends take the day off work for a feast! I am cooking turkey with all the trimmings and friends will bring sides my friend makes a mean green bean casserole, and desserts, can,t wait!
Happy Thanksgivings all!
Bunz

dear bunz50,
Glad that you have friends to enjoy the holiday! WE all have alot to be thankful for.
cheers!
bizi
I hope your pain levels are tolerable. (((((HUGS))))
bizi

plans
 

I am just staying at home alone this year all my kids are going to the in-laws this year,no cooking for me this year woo hoo,will almost no cooking they all want me to make deviled eggs for them to take with them to the in-laws my kids will not eat anyones eggs but mine(lol)everyone thinks I make the best deviled eggs, funny thing is I could not tell you if they are good or not I don't eat mayonase or anything that has mayo in it but I hope that y'all have a grate Thanksgiving:hug::hug:

Katmae

So what are they bringing for a trade? Yes, I would tell each one. That
you need something in exchange. Heehee, you are going to the trouble
of helping each one take something with them.

So could they bring you something to help, you have a nice meal.

Like maybe one bring the rolls, one the cranberry, one the greenbean casserole.

Heehee, I personally would love it if one would find a way to bring a meat.

But heehee.

Donna:grouphug:

Everyone, has been commenting about the green bean casserole.

Its my husband and son's favorite vegetable. I personally don't
care for it.

But I've been making it for years for them. So I will make it again.

I make the corn casserole for me. I didn't care for my daughter-in-laws
last year. So I told her I'd bring it this year.


I am working on some desserts still, we don't have them yet.
But I didn't think last week was okay to buy them. I kind of knew I''d
eat them if I bought them. Heehee

So still working on that.

donna:grouphug::hug:

UgH! Forgot my corn! I may be only having green bean casserole :eek:
I had few items to pick up today. Soooo work calls, a tractor trailer roll over on an interstate an hour away. I tell them, I don't think physically I can. I put 800 miles on in claims and taking ds to neuro in Hershey this week. Worked right through the weekend, a thing called Sandy blew through.

Office ask me to send dh to just get photos of the load, scene cleanup going on. Maybe an hour.....Well dh is working midnight shifts tonight and tomorrow so I suck it up take a muscle relaxant and three Advil......
I am finally home 8 hrs later. With no corn, no potatoes or whip cream for the two pies from SAMs club.

Everyone have a nice relaxing day, yippie a day off!
Di

Di,

Enjoy your Thanksgiving. :)

I believe the pies will be fine without the whipped cream.

M

I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.
I am grateful to have the day off work and to be able to stay home with no plans beyond having to clean the kitchen sink before i have to go to bed tongit.

M


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Thanksgiving ... thoughts?
 

Happy Thanksgiving

Everyone!

Today i have set for myself to be thankful for the simple things in memory and honor of those who tried to teach our ancestors how to live in harmony with the Earth.

I may observe also by eating one or two "traditional" Thanksgiving veggies. (I am not eating much, so it depends what other people cook whether or not i can squeeze this in). There would be great irony in this as at least one veggie would have been subject to high technology and transportation (canned, albeit steamcooked w/ no preservatives); certainly not grown in soil tilled by my family. Now, mom did buy a local variety of sweet potato but not sure if she plans to make them today. She used to have them oven roasted when she was a kid... nothing to do with Thanksgiving for her, but a close enough resemblance for me.

Having been in a bad mood I also will make extra effort to be kind to my family and grateful for their patience with me.

also i have a bunches of hand wash overdue, not to mention my grungy self. ugh. Any sort of observance always makes me feel 100 times the obligation to be fresh as a morning rose from the ends of my hair to the tips of my toes for some reason. not that i always make it ... but the alternative is a sense of profound shame. not even guilt. shame.

well i can see where this post is going. and i was hoping to be up beat and instead i sound beat up. how's that for a turnaround. :rolleyes:

once again, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. :heartthrob: :grouphug: :heartthrob:

~ waves ~

Happy thanksgiving to everyone. especially waves . Remember when trying to be kind and patient to your loved ones to do the same thing to yourself.
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

Thank you, bizi, for that wise reminder to us each and all here as we embark today upon the holiday season,
and for the remainder of this season into the new calendar year.

Thinking of y'all here and hoping for you a Happy Thanksgiving Day & weekend.

I am thankful for you all here in this Neighborhood on NT. :winky:

Theta

It just was not going to be the best of thanksgiving days for us.

I just have had a feeling for a while.

And it went from bad to worst. But we survived.

Sabrina has had a major headache all week. Thanks to things beyond
her control. I should have taken that and realized. I needed to move
to place to my house.

But the second part of the problem would probably still not have gone
away. First she calls at 11:30, after saying 2:00. And wants
to know if everything is ready.

Well no, its not even close most isn't started. Well, mine is and it might
not stay hot. Sorry, can't help that. But of course I feel bad.

Then when we get there its a world war III going on.

There was a issue that was out of our control. Thanks to my granddaughter. And
its too bad she decided to bring it up today. And bring her boyfriend around. Sabrina's
mother has custody technically of her. Which I think needs to change. For this one
to not have such a wild side.

Donna:grouphug::hug:

Thank you for being my friends.

Thank you for accepting me the way Im.

Thank you for your love and support.

Thank you for being part of my life.

:hug:

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING EVERYONE !!!!

I am sorry for the drama donna, not what you wanted for thanksgiving.
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

We did not do anything to mark the holiday except stay home from work. It was good to stay home. I watched too much tv and hubby made something for dinner.

Sounds like a good day to me!

not much for the holidays
 

Hi Mari,it sounds like you did the samething I did,did eat to much pie though but I should be able to start my decorateing by monday,only three days behind but it seems like I am always behind,I hope that you have had a good day:hug::hug:

Me too Donna,so sorry for the drama! What is it that these drama folks need to put a downer on the day. I wish you had a nicer, hallmark kind instead. Love to you my friend.

Had drama of the day, almost no turkey. Ds did not feel up to deep frying the turkey, 2 hrs before dinner, 23 lbs.

then wanted us all to leave because he was having friends over! I think he is embarassed of us for his new friend.
Umm, he has no income, denials on the soc sec, and I was out on the claim all day in pain to pay his bills.....in the house I paid for, that's what you call giving thanks in my own home.

I am eating out next year.
If not for my dgs, I would just travel with dd. for Christmas.

Glad some friends had a grander day, and at least a day off of work. :grouphug::grouphug:

I am sorry you had to have some drama too dear di. And sorry that you had to work....that's awful in pain no less. How are you sleeping these days? I have not heard you mention this in a while. Hugs and love to you today.
(((((HUGS and LOVE))))))
bizi

:hug:Sorry for your Drama too Di.

I think when its our turn to fin for ourselves again.

We will either be eating out. Or going to Kokomo anyway.

Or just having it here anyway, dirty house too.

Everyone has seen this mess of a house anyway. So why worry.

I know I can't clean it thanks to my back. And other soreness.

Donna:grouphug:

Dear Di,

Eating out is a good plan.

M

It's a win/win. Someone else has the stress of cooking and doing the dishes. Then they get to clean up the table, and vacuum the crumbs up when you leave.

Hugs Bizi,
I have a broken pattern, need my new recliner brought in before Christmas. My old one went to dumpster last month when the new couch came. But, I am having post type dreams. Fighting off the bad guys, drug dealers, ex bosses etc, with their own weapons. I am not on Lexapro, company's soared, so not a side affect. Just the PTSD.

Butterfly and Mari,
I am seriously going to p,an that. I can get a breast to cook at home for left overs.

Donna,
That is the big huge mungo variable. Before I got hurt, lost my De, and had to work to keep two homes going, I had a nice homey home. Not House and Garden, that I envied, but swept, mopped, bathroom shined. The laundry built up, digging in baskets for socks, and clutter about. But you could sit at my table, maybe move my mail, and last things in my hands, but clean.

No one will even pick up a empty cup, take their plate away, let alone do their own laundry, except the boys. That is excluding the husband. Between sleeping for 14 hrs, he plays on the ipad games and bi**h about everything. He is always telling my son to do it. He carried in two pies the other night, handed them to KT. He held the door open for me struggling with box of leftovers, soda, paper products, about 15 lbs. my back was shot the day before. As he walked behind me up the steps, he called my son from another room to come take the box!

He is a "King." This is his kingdom we are the servants! He use to at least wipe the counters, or floor in the kitchen. Now, he won't even take a bag of garbage out. Every blessed thing his response is, "where is ds."

Why do I have to put up with this? One by one, if they don't "help me" I swear I will hand them a check and tell them to get out!

I am so embarassed to say before at least I had family and company in, now I could not even invite my cousin in last week and she probably thought I was crazy not too. with a kitchen table piled with boxes and files, the carpets and floors filthy, how embarrassing. I put 1,000 miles on in 7 days straight of work and trip taking son to neuro at Hershey.

Oh, I still cyber school KT, who is one on one still with those needs.

No one even picked up the stove I got for myself. I so rarely buy anything for me.
Mine is dated and a self cleaning oven for $508 would be such a help for me. But if not picked up, then the money gets refunded for them to spend.

Augh, why is it I only have here that anyone has a clue, sympathy, or cares how this hurts me.....too much giving and no getting.
Bad time of the year too, holidays without De, she loved them so much.
Ok, enough whine,
I love you all dearly, I guess I will brace for the fallout when I begin requesting and then give ultimatum. Shape up or ship out!
Love you all :hug:
Di

Di

I'm so sorry you are having so much trouble. Hoping you can get through
this.

Donna:grouphug: