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[quote=Anonymous]I am looking ahead (but not forward) to Thanksgiving, which I generally host, and over the years I have come to somewhat loathe.

We have one kid and will have one set of grandparents coming. I might invite another elderly couple of relatives, but not sure if they will come. In the past, sometimes my sister and her kids travel this way, but this year sadly they are not. So it's kind of a boring size of party, with people we see all the time, and only one young person.

The other thing is that I don't love is the food. I always try to do something that I can get excited about (like, this year, we're going to smoke the turkey! Or, this year, I ordered a heritage turkey! This year I'm doing cornish hens! ETC) but basically I find the food part annoying because this group does not like the same things and some people have diet restrictions so I end up making a bunch of really boring bland dishes that are not necessarily my favorites or the things I grew up with. And it's a lot of work for boring!! It's like 20+ hours of planning, shopping and cooking and 15 minutes of eating.

So, we could go out and maybe I'll go for that this year, though there's been some pushback on that idea in years past.

I don't know exactly why I'm hating on Thanksgiving so much. Maybe I wish it was more of my own family? (They are far away and rotate seeing their own inlaws and etc for the holiday.) What are you doing to make Thanksgiving fun?[/quote]

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