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[quote=Anonymous]How do you celebrate the holiday when one of your children is away?

My daughter and I are having a tough time deciding what to do this Thanksgiving, when her sister is away on a study-abroad program for high-schoolers. This is the first year we have not been all four at home for Thanksgiving. It doesn't feel right celebrating without my elder child, yet I don't want to deprive my younger child of the festivities. My younger daughter feels bad about her sister's not being here; she even asked to celebrate her birthday and her sister's weeks early, before her sister's departure in September, and we did do that. One consideration, though, is that I would hate for my elder daughter to feel gulity that her absence made us not enjoy a full Thanksgiving.

Some ideas we have batted around for this holiday are,

(1) postponing the annual Thanksgiving dinner to Xmas eve, when we will all be together again;

(2) having a scaled-back version of the Thanksgiving meal (usually a groaning board of 15 dishes including four different pies);

(3) going out to a restaurant ('though this would still feel as if we are leaving my elder daughter of something special); or

(4) doing the usual Thanksgiving.

How have you handled having a child away for the holidays? Or even if you haven't faced this, what would you do if you did? I would love to get your ideas and thoughts. Thanks.[/quote]

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