lolol...I did that for 5 yrs...friggin walmart

Where do you think I bought the microwave and the frozen turkey dinner thing....?

That's right, I forgot

We always have Thanksgiving dinner at my Grandparents house.. Im the only one who lives in the same town they do so between my Grams and I we start cooking earlier earlier Thursday morning ... So I guess I got both covered I cook and have dinner at someone elses house....

i generally get invited somewhere else

For about a bah-zillion years in a row, the family has had Thanksgiving dinner at my brother's house.

They live in an agricultural, rural German community here in Michigan, and along with turkey, dressing, and all the normal goodies, they will also have a huge crock pot full of sauerkraut and sausage.

When my family gets together around one table to eat, it is always a very happy time. There is a lot of joking and some story telling, and my father always says a Christian blessing before meals like this. I think I have the best family in the world!!!

When you walk in, every single person in attendance gives you a big hug. Along with the hug, there will be a "Happy Thanksgiving" (or, fill-in-the-blank________ for the holiday...) spoken, and a bit of an extra squeeze before letting go. Everybody hugs everybody, I think that is cool.

I have a little story to tell you about my family and Thanksgiving. We had a family historian/genealogist do the work on this and this is recorded on record at the state library of Michigan in Lansing (Michigan's capitol city.)

My family name came here to North America in 1623, right on the heels of the Mayflower. They arrived on a ship named "The Anne" which landed in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts just like the folks on the Mayflower did a few years before. There are members of the lineage of my family buried in the Pilgrim graveyard in Plymouth Rock today. So, I am literally a person who can trace his descendents all the way back to the first Pilgrims from Europe to come to this country.

Thanksgiving has a bit of a cool meaning for me. I can picture one of my family named memebers sitting there with one of those funny black Pilgrim hats, and funny buckled shoes, having a meal of turkey while the American Indians brought their corn (maize) to share.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

Years later one of our family became a documented Daughter of the American Revolution, and during the revolution another member of the family name gave up his property in Vermont to allow the colonial army to build a fort in order to fight the British.

My father was a World War II veteran, he fought in the South Pacific. His father, my grandfather, fought in World War I. I am thinking there has been a member of my family involved with every conflict this country has ever fought to give us the freedoms we now love and share. This is one reason I always thank someone if I ever find out they have served in the U.S. military. They give us the freedoms we all enjoy behind these fairly safe borders of ours. Maybe you can find at least one person in the service this Thanksgiving to tell them simply "thanks for serving."

Please everyone, enjoy your Thanksgiving dinners. Even if it is the microwave kind. I have had plenty of those in my life... And remember that somewhere in the world that day, someone some where will not be lucky enough to sit down to such a great meal. In fact some folks won't eat that day at all. We are truly a blessed nation, and I hope everyone enjoys this day the Pilgrims started oh those long many years ago.

I'll spend the day with my mother and family. I'll usually make the stuffing. I'll spend the evening getting hammered and watching "Bad Santa" or "It's A Wonderful Life".

Just think....if the Indians had given the Pilgrims a donkey instead of a turkey,
We'd all be getting a piece of ass for Thanksgiving.

We give tamales for Thanksgiving and Christmas

but then Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and El Paso were booming cities about a hundred years before the Pilgrims even landed in America

I'd kill for some good tamales.
Maybe I'll make green chili for the Holiday.

I go to someone's home for Turkey day but I always bring something!

That would definitely be thankful for that!

I have always cooked for Thanksgiving and Christmas but when I remarried our combined family was too large so we started having it at my daughters house. I would still cook the turkey, dressing and gravy and everyone would bring something.. In O7 I lost my husband and my mom and that was the first time I did't cook, I wasn't up to it.. This yr I have been invited out of state to dinner with a new friend and his children.. My kids are ok with that so I am going, first to spend a few days with my oldest daughter who has a birthday before TG and then on to my friends house... HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone!

For as long as I've been an adult, all my family has come to my house and I cook the majority of the items - leaving them rolls and soda and such to bring. This year however, we are going to my brother and his girlfriends house. It's been requested that I make my stuffing, so I will, and will be happy to take anything else she'd like me to