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[quote=Anonymous]I would explain it like it is, and let her know she is welcome to join but she should know that aside from the food and relaxation, there is not much planned for your Thanksgiving. If she is as you describe, she will likely want to join you anyway.

It actually sort of sounds like our Thanksgiving, although there are more people involved in our case. We travel 3hrs to my SIL and they have 3 grown kids (our are teens). We plan one activity together for the Friday (museum for example), and bring a couple of movies to watch together. We eat a lot and nap and it is not that exciting for AP but all have enjoyed traveling to another state and living 'Thanksgiving' with us.

We have similar issues with lodging. We typically rent a hotel room for some members of the family (either AP + 1DC, or parents + 1 DC). We have also done one home swap using homeexchange.com (highly recommend if you are looking for low cost). Once we basically just hunkered down and all slept at SIL.

It's not ideal, and it always makes me a bit nervous to bring AP, but it always went well. I ask AP to make one side dish from her home country, and they usually love to.[/quote]

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