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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I love cooking Thanksgiving dinner and have several favorite dishes that just make the holidays for me.  They are traditions which I want to share and pass on to my kids.

However, the past 7 years we have ended up spending Thanksgiving at a family member's house. They want to cook the entire meal their way and always tell us to bring nothing or just some wine.

So what we have done is started a new family tradition of doing a smaller full Thanksgiving dinner on Friday. We watch the parade, put up our tree, and bake a smaller turkey with all our respective families' traditional dishes. We have my MILs potatos, my aunt's amazing veggie dish, my special cranberry dish. We have the fun of preparing Thanksgiving and passing our own traditional dishes to our kids, making family dishes with them, and enjoying the leftovers, just a day later. We don't take home leftovers from Thursday since we are going to have our own the next day.  The kids now consider "our" Thanksgiving the real Thanksgiving, and Thursday a nice tradition spending time with our loved ones.  It is fun, relaxing and low pressure.

AND, one of the best things is that our kids already know that years down the road when they pair off, they are all welcome to spend Thursday with their inlaws guilt free, because "our" Thanksgiving will be a day or two later.

Maybe start a new tradition and do a Thanksgiving at home that weekend with a blend of your traditions and your husband's.

You want to pass your foods and memories to your own kids and create new ones specific to your family, not just an exclusive monopoly of your inlaws traditions only. So make it happen.

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