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post #1 of 16
9/19/02 at 11:23pm
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at home with your immediate family ... or at someone elses home like grandparents?
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post #2 of 16
9/19/02 at 11:45pm
Yes we celebrate it with family. This year it is at my house!!
Actually it is coming up in 3 and a half weeks! I am really looking forward to it!
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post #3 of 16
9/19/02 at 11:47pm
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3 1/2 weeks

We usually do something here for Stan, myself and the kids. We go EVERYWHERE for Christmas ... do we stay at home on Thanksgiving!
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post #4 of 16
9/19/02 at 11:56pm
For us Canadians Roxanna! Dont panic!! I think you still have a couple of months!
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post #5 of 16
9/20/02 at 12:35am
I love Thanksgiving, that's usually around when my bday is. We always have some sort of family get together, one with my parents and sometimes my sister(s) and one get together with Marco's brother's and their families.
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post #6 of 16
9/20/02 at 1:03am
we don't do thanks giving I thought it was in NOV ??
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post #7 of 16
9/20/02 at 1:38am
Thanks Jenn, I'm still in the Back to School mode and I didn't even realize that Thanksgiving is getting that close.
Maree - the Americans celebrate Thanksgiving in Nov. but the Canadians celebrate the second Monday in October.
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post #8 of 16
9/20/02 at 11:11am
Before my parents divorced, we always went to my grandmother's. When I was a little older, we'd go to some other relatives or my mom would cook for us and my step-siblings. After I got married, we spent the first Thanksgiving at Bob's grandparents in Delaware, but last Thanksgiving we stayed home, and his mom cooked. This year, I'm not sure!
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post #9 of 16
9/20/02 at 11:17am
Thanks Bonnie, glad I didn't watch all those sitcoms for nothing as a child

They were the closest we ever came to Halloween and Thanksgiving (see I never even realised that it was one word, I've only really heard it, not seen it LOL)
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post #10 of 16
9/20/02 at 11:21am
We don't celebrate Thanksgiving.
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post #11 of 16
9/20/02 at 11:24am
Since we now live in a different state than everyone else in the family, it makes it hard. Usually Christmas and Thanksgiving are planned for the next year at this years dinner! Growing up we usually spent Thanksgiving at my Grandmothers in Cocoa Beach, FL. My Grandmother died in August of last year, so last year we did Thanksgiving at our house with my mom and step father. This year we are trying to talk my mom or DH's dad to come up, but we don't know yet. It might just be DH, myself and DS, which would be fine. Actually Christmas will be that way also since no one can get time off to travel with Christmas being in the middle of the week!
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post #12 of 16
9/20/02 at 11:26am
I have never celebrated anywhere but at my mom's or my aunts house with the whole family.

This will be my first year that I am left on my own because mom remarried and will be going to her new husband's hometown to visit his parents.

I don't like the idea of a little Thanksgiving at home so I am trying to find somewhere to go.
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post #13 of 16
10/18/02 at 11:41am
Before Michael was born we celebrated Thanksgiving at my parents home. Now that we have our own little family, we celebrate at home.

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post #14 of 16
10/22/02 at 12:13pm
Elaine, you are welcome to come to my house but I don't think that is exactly what you had in mind!
I'm not even sure what we are doing?!?! I was kinda hoping that Roxanna would tell me instead of me telling her!
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post #15 of 16
10/22/02 at 12:44pm
When I was little it was lunch at my mom's mom and supper at my dad's mom....the same with every holiday. But one of my grandma's died 2 years ago so my mom has one big one now. But now I have to go to Den's grandma's for lunch. And his stepmom's family has theirs the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
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post #16 of 16
10/22/02 at 2:26pm
Elaine - as you probably know we celebrated Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago, and I too was feeling kind of lonely and depressed because I was use to having lots of family around. For the past few years it's just been my dh and kids, his parents and his sister/so. I would hear how my parents THanksgiving and Christmas were(with my brother and sister and their families) and I would feel more depressed. Then I decided this Thanksgiving I would get out the good china and silverware and make my dh and kids feel special. It turned out great! THe kids were on their best behavior and they loved eating off of the dishes they didn't even know we had LOL! I also asked each member the night before to think of all the things they were thankful for and to share it with us at dinner. They thought up some wonderful things. THe we each said one thing that we thought Abby would be thankful for if she could tell us!
I just remembered all those years that I wanted a family and children and now I have them,and I wanted them to know how thankful I am to have them!(I didn't get married and have children until I was in my 30's)
I hope this helps you in some way.
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