Anyone hosting Thanksgiving?

bullybutt

This year I am hosting Thanksgiving at my house for both sides of the family (shoot me in the face).  We usually have a kids table and adult table and the kids get to fight over who gets to pull the wishbone.  There is usually football watched by the old farts and football played in the yard with the kids and the active adults. What traditions do you have for Thanksgiving that your family looks forward to?  I would like to steal ideas.

Karbird5

We always start the day with Mimosas while we watch the parade. Then there is a heated debate later on about whether there can ever be too much sage in the stuffing.

CinemaGoddess

We have tacos in addition to turkey and all the sides. 

CinemaGoddess

OH. And I watch the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade because the officially official start of Christmas is watching Santa at the very end.

lildevil968

We don't have alot of family close by, so we always have DH's parents over, some friends, and a few cadets who can't go home for Thanksgiving. We usually sit around, and watch whatever football game is on, and we plan out our black friday strategy for all the stores.

NotSharknado

We always have homemade lasagna and breaded steak along with the traditional turkey feast.

We also play bingo

NotSharknado

GotGingy said:

This is our year to go to STL with the ILs.  We go to a restaurant on The Hill, and no one has to cook. 

If we're with my family, my grandma hosts dinner.  After dinner is reserved for board games (Scattegories is a family fave) and trading gift lists between the LOs. 

ETA.  My mom and I always hang around the kitchen after dinner to pick at the leftover turkey.  We're always miserably full, but we do it every. damn. year.

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TheBub

I have hosted every year since we bought our house in 2005.  Our traditions include screaming and shouting about cooking and cleaning.  It is a very wholesome and loving day for all involved.

phunkyphish

CinemaGoddess said:

We have tacos in addition to turkey and all the sides. 

This makes me want some sort of turkey taco with cranberry relish (for salsa) and stuffing (for lettuce). This was a bad thread to open before lunch. 

We usually trade off houses between my parents, his dad, and my brother each year. I'm hoping this year we go to his dad's because I'm not pregnant this year, and that house is the drinking house. I love day drinking and eating all day, therefore, I love Thanksgiving. 

We also love to watch Christmas movies and drag the decorations out of storage when we get home that night. 

bullybutt

TheBub said:

I have hosted every year since we bought our house in 2005.  Our traditions include screaming and shouting about cooking and cleaning.  It is a very wholesome and loving day for all involved.

Yes, I have a repulsive grandma (who will be in attendance) who makes rude ass comments about everyone's weight, particulary my curvy sister.  She also criticizes my moms stuffing and picks at all the food before it actually gets served.  I wish I could lock her in a closet until it's time to go home. It's inevitable that I will end up pissed off at her before the day is over. I am absolutely starting the mimosa tradition now.

theimpossibleastronaut

We always host my parents and DH's parents. My twin brother came too, but he moved west earlier this year.

So, this year it is just us. Our traditions include me cooking the turkey (scary!), H cooking the stuffing and potatoes, and our parents bringing the other foods. There is usually way too much of everything, no one remembers to bring tupperware for leftovers, and we give them all our tupperware.

WasNotWas

@shanado are you Italian? My grandma always brings a lasagna and cream puffs, yum city.

OP - we don't have any specific traditions, just specific food assignments for attendees

ReeseFox

We host, but it's usually just us and my parents. I cook everything but the stuffing, which my mom brings. My dad brings these amazing sweet potato pies he gets from some place near his barber shop. My mom and I day drink and we all watch football then eat ourselves into a coma. 

stoneycakes

Our tradition is having half of the family analyze the bird for any sign that it could be underdone, putting it back in the oven because "better safe than sorry" and then eating overcooked turkey.

NotSharknado

WasNotWas said:

@shanado are you Italian? My grandma always brings a lasagna and cream puffs, yum city.

OP - we don't have any specific traditions, just specific food assignments for attendees

Nope. Irish, but Dh is Italian.

MrsT0514

I'd love to host a holiday someday. Maybe once we build a bigger house (which is our eventual plan!). Our current home is tiiiinyyyy.

Our current turkey day plan is to stop in at my aunt's house early afternoon for a few glasses of wine and apps so my family can visit with DS. Then we'll head over to DH's aunt's house for thanksgiving dinner with my ILs. After dinner and dessert, they all sit around playing poker and getting rowdy. I'm not a card player (just was never into it), so we'll probably leave at that time and head back to my mom's or my MILs house to put DS down, maaaaybe pop open a bottle of wine and stay the night.