Open Mic Wednesday 11/16/11
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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It’s the OMW Thanksgiving Edition!
Be sure to scroll down to see all my questions before answering—I’ve separated them out to try to help you keep your answers shorter.
Where will you celebrate Thanksgiving (Are you traveling?)
At my house
At my brother- and sister-in-law’s house about 50 miles away.
Going to Alabama this year to see my dad’s side of the family!!! Ready to play some football with my cousins!! YAY!
We will probably just stay here.
I’ll be heading to Hot Springs next Tuesday after work.
Our house with the kids for a change. The past two years they’ve gone to “Aunt Angy’s” farm.
Having family at my house for lunch.
Here at home with the fam. My sister and SIL have an amazing menu planned. My grandparents may be coming and we’re hoping our next door neighbors can come again too. They’re so much fun.
At my parent’s house in eastern Kentucky. I’m leaving either Wednesday evening after work, or Thursday morning.
What will you eat for Thanksgiving dinner? Will you be doing all the cooking? Letting someone else feed you? Participating in a potluck? What’s your favorite Thanksgiving food? (Feel free to share favorite recipes!)
I will be doing all the cooking this year (except for any desserts people bring)
We will be eating Turkey, Fruit and Nut Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, a savory Sweet Potato Gratin, Green Bean casserole (home-made, no canned soup or french-fried onions!) Homemade Cranberry Relish, oh, and of course gravy
My husband will be making a couple of his famous apple pies, but any other desserts will be up to the guests to bring.
We’ll be eating the usual – turkey and dressing, etc. It’s pretty much potluck – and I haven’t gotten my assignment yet!
I have a feeling chocolate pie will be involved, though . . . 
My mom, sisters and I will all be doing the cooking. Daddy will carve the turkey with the electric knife. My younger sister and I will be baking pies a day or two before. My pies aren’t contest or picture worthy, but they’re fun to make and usually taste good and normal.
We usually have turkey, stove-top stuffing, sweet potoato casserole, corn and lima beans, rolls, cranberry sauce or frozen cranberry salad and probably more that I can’t think of right now. Sometimes my sister makes deviled eggs too. For dessert we ususally have pumpkin pie, apple pie and sometimes pecan pie.
The nice thing about (a) being single and (b) traveling elsewhere for Thanksgiving is that I’m not expected to cook for others. Of course, I will help my mom with our meal, but that’s different. We’ll be having prime rib, baked sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, and one or two other sides, plus probably a sugar-free cheesecake or something else low-carb friendly for dessert. (Two out of the three of us aren’t big turkey fans, so why force ourselves to eat something we don’t like just because “everyone else” eats it?)
Oh–and cranberry sauce, made from real cranberries, not the canned jelly.
My wife makes the best turkey and homemade gravy I’ve ever eaten. We’ll put out way more food than we need, go around the circle telling what we’re thankful for and gobble up, pun intended
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I have a special recipe for dressing that has sausage. Will have roasted chicken instead of turkey. Never will cook turkey again! Instead will have roasted chicken with a special tarragon sauce, but will cook chicken gravy for the dressing. Sweet potato cassarol, cranberry jello salad, corn pudding, green beans, stuffed celery, cheese cake and strawberries for desert.
Who will you spend Thanksgiving dinner with?
My parents and all my brothers and sisters and their kids, except for my two brothers (one of whom is married with 3 kids) who are stationed overseas with the Army. Hopefully they’ll both make appearances via skype though.
My husband and his mom.
My in-laws – Mother- and father-in-law, husband’s two brothers, wives, kids, and grandkids (I have 4 great-nieces and nephews!), and then of course MY husband and kids!
I will probably be with my parents and sisters. My mom talked about going up to my grandparents’ house in OH, but we will probably just stay here. Last year we invited a church family over whose relatives all lived far away and a Christian older lady whose husband is in jail and has no children. That was nice being able to be with other people that we aren’t with all the time. That evening we had another church family over for supper. We’ll probably do something similar this year. My mom has talked over the years about having university students over who cannot go home for Thanksgiving. We’ve never done it though.
My parents. Plus my mom has invited a friend of ours and her husband, but I don’t know if they’re coming or not.
My two sons and a daughter-in-law, her mother and sister.
My parents.
Day after Thanksgiving: What will you be doing?
Haven’t thought that far yet!
Weather permitting, hiking at the lake.
Oh, hiking at the lake sounds wonderful! There’s a park not too far away from where I live. Maybe I’ll have to see about going there sometime soon to hike.
Dragging out Christmas decorations while I have plenty of help from hubby and girls.
Staying away from any shopping area…
Football, football, football! And we might go out in the afternoon and hit a few stores. The nice thing about Hot Springs is that it’s a small city, so the crowds aren’t nearly as bad as they would be in Nashville (or in the southern suburbs of Dallas, where my folks used to live).
Black Friday shopping followed up by putting up our Christmas light extravaganza.
Sorry Kaye, no deer tales this year.
While I’d love to go shopping, I think I’m working –if not at the library, then doing homework and projects … one month left in the semester –ack. =P
My son has to work that Friday, so have to take him to and from work (he doesn’t drive). Hope the weather is nice so I can finish raking leaves.
Not much! Definitely not leaving the house and we’re not sure yet how long my brother will be able to stay.
Catching up on my reading.
What’s your favorite Thanksgiving tradition?
Idk how this got started, but we usually watch The Wizard of Oz. That reminds me, I should probably try to find it on DVD since we don’t have a VCR… off to check the library website
My mother-in-law’s cornbread dressing and corn pudding. Yum.
Before we all sit down to a wonderful thanksgiving meal, on my dad’s side of the family all my cousins gather in an empty field, and we all play football. Flag football, not tackle. We did that one year and my dad knocked his brother to the ground and knocked the wind out of him.
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is breaking tradition. Prime rib instead of turkey. Sugar-free cheesecake instead of pumpkin pie (again, why eat what we don’t like?). And the tradition of being very laid back and relaxed and not worrying about schedules and table settings and trying to make everything “perfect.”
I love to cook for family and have them visiting.
What’s your favorite Thanksgiving movie? Book?
I love the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving movie. But my favorite movie that I always watch Thanksgiving weekend is A Christmas Story. That’s the gateway to the Christmas season for me!
Planes, Trains and Automobiles, of course.
Don’t read books at Thanksgiving, except the Bible. Like to list all the things I am thankful for and hear what others have to be thankful for. God is so good.
Are you a Thanksgiving morning parade watcher?
nope
I just don’t get parades.
It’s on, but we usually have to leave before it’s over. I actually like the pre-parade show better.
Uhm…no. We don’t have a tv. I will be going to our town’s Christmas parade on November 19th!
I never get up early enough to watch the parades. Last time I did was in the late 1980s when the marching band from my high school marched in the Macy’s parade, because I knew a bunch of people in the band, so it was fun to see them on TV.
I watch! The Macy’s parade broadcasts at 10:00 or so where I live, so I usually catch that one –sometimes I wake up early for the “other” parades on t.v. (6:00am?) but it depends… I used to love the floats the best, but the musicals/broadway clips they show are quickly becoming my favorite …
Too busy to watch TV. Thanksgiving fare is too boring for me. If I watch anything it is a rented movie.
Thanksgiving weekend means big football rivalries. Give a shout-out to the team(s) you’ll be cheering for next weekend.
Oh I love that pic. we dont follow american footbal but I support Richmond in Australian rules football and we are the tigers.
SOOIIEEE, PIG PIG PIG!! But you knew that already… It’s about time for the Tigers to choke on a ham bone again.
Football is the one with the pointy ended ball, right?
Lori is my kind of football fan.
mine too
I’m with these gals!!
Yes, the pointy ball . . . and the boys in tight pants.
Auburn!!!!!! and University of Texas!!!!!
I’ll be cheering for Auburn in the Iron Bowl, too! (Of course, I cheer for anyone against Alabama.)
yeah!!!!! Glad we’re on the same page Kaye!
I’ll probably have several things thrown at me, but I don’t like football at all.
I married a man who can’t stand to sit around watching sports on TV. Lucky me.
We mostly hike and shoot arrows at tin cans the hunters left behind when others are watching Superbowls or whatnot. All those men home on their couches keeps the hiking trails clear.