will you be spending thanksgiving with your family?

[mopinko]

Poll question: will you be spending thanksgiving with your family?

family being defined here as whatever you think it means.

[HopeHoops]

1. My wife and 3 daughters and we'll probably be joined by the eldest's boyfriend.

[Kali]

2. just most of the nuclear family

but I LOLed at your choices

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. I have a 12 hour shift on Turkey Day, then I have a 4-day weekend so,

I guess we will do something on Saturday. I hope to be able to do the turkey in my new oven :)

[siligut]

10. New oven, ahhhhh

I got a new one when we moved and it does make cooking more enjoyable.

To answer the OP, it is just us, and a good, single friend of my SO. I don't really like my family much right now.

[xchrom]

4. I'm on my own this year.

Which is fine.

[charlie and algernon]

5. going back home for Thanksgiving

Everyone gathers at my Grandmother's house for the meal, as we do for all the big holidays.

[Brickbat]

6. Without Mr. Brickbat, as I do every Thanksgiving; but happily with my FOO.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. what is FOO ...

:shrug:

[Brickbat]

22. Family of origin.

Mom, Dad, Sis, and now her family.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

7. On any other board, I'd say "no." Here- yes.

Will be spending it with my partner and some of our closest friends...a family that we've created, and have a thanksgiving tradition with- of some variety... for 5+ years.

[mopinko]

23. that's so nice of you to say.

this here is my family, also.

[Lucian]

8. Work is making me go in from 11 am until 6 pm.

But I'm saying "fuck you" to work and celebrating with my family instead. The company I work for? Walmart. They refused everyone's Thanksgiving request off as well as everyone's Black Friday requests.

[Forkboy]

9. Apparently not.

[Demeter]

11. Some of It

I've lost so many, that I'm recruiting a new batch...dinner's at 6!

[old mark]

12. Thanksgiving day with my wife's cousin and their family, one day by ourselves, one day with

my middle brother and SIL, if it all works out as planned. We have no problems getting along with family except for the very ignorant, prejudiced, RW branch of inlaws who we almost never see anyway.

mark

[BillStein]

14. spending it with friends

the family I chose, rather than the one I was born into

[MountainLaurel]

15. Yes, but it probably won't be too happy

We were planning to spend the day with Mr. Laurel's aunt and uncle. Unfortunately, 3 weeks ago he was diagnosed with liver cancer, and he likely won't be here next week. Instead, we'll probably be spending the holiday highly intoxicated with whomever else shows up.

[elocs]

16. How about just "no"? Wasn't there room in the poll for a simple "no" response? n/t

[Rosie1223]

17. With the In-Laws....*sigh*

watching my husband's 2 brothers getting shit-faced and falling asleep on the only 2 couches in the house.

Hope everyone has a better time than I do.

:hi:

[Mugu]

18. The only way for me to have dinner with family

is at the cemetery.

[bigwillq]

19. Yes (nt)

[Broken_Hero]

20. Other:

spending it with my inlaws.

[mopinko]

21. so glad i am not the only one who doesn't belong

on a hallmark card! (not like i thought i was.)

[clyrc]

24. I'm spending Thanksgiving with my immediate family

and at least one friend, but I desperately wish I could go home for the holiday. Every year I miss my sister and her kids more, and of course as my parents age I worry about never getting to spend another holiday with them. They both have diabetes, and neither of them take care of themselves. I like making the holiday meals myself, but I would like being with family more.

[denbot]

25. This year I'm going solo..

Alley and Mini-Alley are going to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary Thanksgiving Week. Man-cub is going to have Thanksgiving dinner with his buddies. I was thinking of roasting a bird, but Alley said I may as well wait till the day after when she gets home and we'll grab a couple of birds on sale and roast one Saturday for "leftovers".

I could go to one of my sisters, but I think I'll hang out at home, go surfing because the lineup will be fairly empty at my local beach, and then have Chinese Food. Now that's a holiday. :woohoo:

[mopinko]

27. i have a beach, but

it will likely be a little cold around lake michigan. i like visiting my beach, but i am waiting for global warming to make lake michigan warm enough for me to swim in it.

[baldguy]

26. The whole Teabagger wing of the clan.

:-(

[Deep13]

28. No. Just "no," nothing else. nt