“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?”~Erma Bombeck
It’s four thirty am and I am finally a little bit sleepy. I was supposed to be in bed by midnight. I want to make it to my sister’s house today for Thanksgiving. My alarm is set to go off in four and a half hours to wake up and watch the parade. Dinner at my sisters is about 12 hours away. I am clearly self-sabotaging. I really want to go but these days “going” is hard. Even if my sister’s cooking is on the other end of the drive. Yet I am optimistic.
I am also DYING to hear about your Thanksgiving this year. How was the travel? Was there any drama at dinner? Did anyone put their turkey in the oven and forget to turn it on? Was anyone too snowed in to get to their destination? Were there any heated political arguments? My sister has a no politics rule in her house at all times. Did anyone risk life and limb trying to deep fry a turkey? Were there sibling arguments? Unexpected guests? Also, I am curious what time everyone has their big meal. This is a constant issue in my family. But since my sister does all the work she decides.
Tell me everything!
P.S. It is now 5:11 am. I know, I know I am going…. sigh.
5: 46 a.m. Turkey ,& all the accoutrements are done. Closed the restaurant & started the meal preparation around 11 p.m. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving! Much love to all xo Marc p.s. I love the Erma Bombeck quote & e card meme! I have both on my Instagram ! Twins indeed!
This is the 41st time I am hosting Thanksgiving. I started cooking dinner and taking it off my Mom’s hands when I was 20 and it’s been that way ever since. I’ve had anywhere from 0 to 25 guests at my house over the years. This is my favorite holiday and I think it ‘s how every holiday should be celebrated. Who needs gifts? I’d rather have a houseful of family & friends for one night than any gift. Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I am now off to start my day in the kitchen!
My favorite holiday too. It’s all about food and being thankful.
Agree. This, and Halloween are the best. Happy day of gratefulness and food.
I love the cooking. Hate the cleanup. I miss the days when I would cook for 20 people. My dinner parties were legendary. People talk about them 40 years later. Now, I can barely fit three people in for dinner. And barely cook for two. (And 14 critters, not including Stripe the Roofrat and the magpie flock.)
Nanette I definitely need to know more about your menagerie! We are trying to put Santa hats on our five cats for a Christmas photo this year, please send good vibes. Photo session is Saturday. Happy Thanksgiving!
The only way to put hats on cats is you have to get them while they are sleeping and then gently pet them and they wake up and don’t know they are on their heads. I tried for years to get a Santa hat on them and this is the only thing that worked. Good Luck fellow pet lover!!
We are hosting 12 people for dinner. My husband is English so we always have a few Brits around the table which makes it even more fun! The table is set, a few dishes are done, and it’s almost time to start cooking again. I love it! My favorite holiday for sure.
My favorite holiday as well and I do agree with your sister that politics should be set aside for this meal! It’s about putting your fat pants on, drinking, eating and laughing it up with whoever makes it to the table. I also believe some of my best thanksgivings have been when it was a mixed crowd and we invited people who were maybe alone that year etc.
I always make homemade cranberry sauce with fresh berries, orange rinds, whole cinnamon sticks, cloves and nutmeg. I brought some to my neighbors along with some local honey. The cranberry goes so well on sandwiches the day after as well! I’m also excited to try some peach apple cider in my champagne while I cook all day.. just love this day so much. Hope everyone enjoys it!! 😘
The cranberry concoction sounds good enough to eat right out of the jar. With a giant spoon. Or on ice cream or cheesecake.
We are in the mountains with our RV. It’s our first time using it. My husband broke off a pin that disengages the RV from the truck. We spent the night in a hotel. We are spending Thanksgiving day repairing and setting up. Hopefully we will have a dinner either tonight or tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving to all here. The blogs and the commenters here feel like family.
I am THANKFUL you are safe. That pin thing … I hope you have fun the rest of the day and the rest of the trip.
Since daughter and son in law are spending today with his family, we had Pre-Giving yesterday with my thrice cooked ham, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, homemade salad dressings and raw veg. The new dog sat on my lap and ate a carrot. The old dog got her barks in, then roamed around, grinning.
We talked about greenhouses, books we liked, and general pleasant chat. And happy silence. It was lovely.
Today, it is turkey, my mom’s recipe dressing, all the sides and pie. My son will chow down with us. Then the others come over, join us for pie. We will probably watch the squirrels raid the feeders and chat.
Coming from a dysfunctional family and a weird childhood, this very laidback and happy week is, utterly, heaven.
Happy Grateful Day to all.
Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday season!
I’m planning to veg today in front of the TV, after a long morning walk. I had Thanksgiving with my sister and her family on Tuesday. She fixed all the traditional stuff, which was wonderful as always. I supplied 7 pints (all different flavors) of Jeni’s ice cream to go with dessert.
Last night was Friendsgiving with 3 friends at a steak place in the casino here in Cbus.
Looking forward with nervous trepidation to the Ohio State-Michigan game on Saturday. #gobucks
In the meantime, I’m continuing to binge Coronation Street on Hulu…I’m up to August 2019, and enjoying both the soapy drama and funny British humor on the show.
The dogs I am caring for wake me up to eat at 5:11 every morning. We are starting the day with (Where’s) Saint Andre cheese on TJ Pistachio Pomegranate Crisps (me) and apple slices with chunky almond butter (dogs).
The bedroom TV is not set up to record in the background, so I can either get out of bed at 6:16 (NOE!) or watch Ridiculousness, the very intelligent dad’s equivalent of Bravo shit. I can’t find mute on this crappy Dish remote. I FINALLY got the volume down to 1.
After a trip to the dog park, I will go to my sister’s, bearing things that require no cooking. My BIL and nephews will entertain me with their skewed takes on everything. We will (for the eighth year) not be speaking on the phone or FaceTime to my brother. The Succubus will be grateful (for the eighth year) that she has separated him from his family (now that they got their inheritance from Mom). If he is lucky, one of his kids will be speaking to them this year. If I get the wishbone, I will wish that next year he will be FREE of The Succubus.
Drive safely Tamara and have fun as the Spinster Aunt. I am that on both sides of the family. Growing up, it was Aunt Mary the Tragic Virgin Spinster (spent her life caring for Dad and Jesus). Now, it is Aunt Nanette the Inappropriate Celibate Former Hoe spinster.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
“Aunt Nanette the inappropriate Celibate Former Hoe Spinster “ LMAO 😂
You are my spirit animal or long lost twin. It’s uncanny! Only my menagerie is not animals, it’s elderly actual humans and I’d gladly trade for animals. I yelled GOODBYE KYLE as I dropped each one off and none of them heard me.
The exception is my 98 year old grandfather who is the sweetest man on the planet and I could listen to his stories forever. I hang on his every word. ❤️
Happy Thanksgiving to TT and all of you on this site!!!
Monday, I returned home from work and my sister had made all the Thanksgiving food. Her chemo brain made her think Monday was thanksgiving, so we had thanksgiving Monday night for supper. My 11 year called me to tell me at work, I said don’t tell her it is not thanksgiving, just go with it. We wore Indian and Pilgrim hats and had a fun night. Today we are eating cereal.
Joey, that’s beautiful! Bless your heart for not telling her mistake, she made it all with love ❤
Have any of you watched The Unicorn? If not, I highly recommend it. It is a very funny show.
Happy Thanksgiving 🍽🦃🍁!!!
I don’t care about anything else but Mashed potatoes and gravy. I do make it myself other times but there is something about having it made for you that just makes it even better. The hubs and I travel not far and our sister in law cooks. All the neices little one are coming and I am over the moon.
Happy Thanksgiving Tamara and to all our family of posters. Wishing you all peace, blessings and love.
Happy Thanksgiving TT, wishing you and your Family everything good the world has to offer! Appreciate you and all you do for us all through the year. 🦃
Trying to recover from an all day.. 2 casino Gambling-o-Rama day yesterday. Why is it my friends are gambling addicts? Endured about 10 hour straight and have to bring snack food in my purse to keep up the momentum since stopping to eat is like pulling teeth.. I try to stay on the 5 cent video poker and Keno machines so I don’t leave broke and I hate to lose money. Right now, I am watching Josh Flagg on KTLA news at Project Angel Food. Isn’t he a great guy? plus, he always answers my tweets and is very gracious. Later today I am going to Fashion Island to an Italian Restaurant for Thanksgiving because my good friend says, ” I picked the place because I knew you would like it being Italian.” ( on my Dad’s side) This should be fun. I hope. Have lots of fun today Tamara. Give Banjo a big hug from me. He resembles Beau same coloring.
It’s 9 am here, and our family just finished a 5k run/walk. It rained pretty good for CA, as we are getting the low end of the bomb cyclone hitting the west coast, so we mostly walked in the rain. Still, it was a nice activity to start the day.
Now I have to go start the turkey. I use an amazing recipe, where I make a paste out of roasted garlic heads, butter, rosemary and Dijon musutard. You rub it between the skin and the meat, and use half for the mushroom gravy. I make cranberry sauce by roasting them with sugar in the oven, then adding chopped toasted walnuts and a splash of grand marnier.
The hubs and kids are making some sides. I ordered stuffing from While Foods and bought a pumpkin pie. We are having pumpkin muffins for breakfast.
No out of town guests this year, so it is mellow and easy. Hopefully no drama, but I can’t wait to see what everyone else reports later.
Happy Thanksgiving!
In Myrtle Beach, basking in the sun, and lolling about on the beach with my sister. Food today consist of everything in the fridge, whatever that may be. We fly through Atlanta airport tomorrow to get back to MO. We are expecting a hellish day. Today, however is glorious. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
I would love a beach Thanksgiving!
My hometown! My bestie just flew down this weekend to hang with me with his girlfriend!
I like to share this story about Thanksgiving. It makes me feel good and hopefully it makes others feel good, too.
Hubby & I were working industrial construction on the road. We had to work on Thanksgiving Day and so we were going to travel the 10 hour drive back home on T’giving night & eat leftovers with family & friends all weekend. We stopped at a Waffle House about 8pm because it was the only place open on the lonely highway. (We had our pre-teen child with us btw.) It was a pretty quiet and motley group of people & employees at the Waffle House in Mississippi on Thanksgiving night. A female employee came in to start her shift. She looked around and then she got everyone’s attention and asked if anyone would want her to go home and bring her leftover Thanksgiving meal to the WH for us to all share! She had cooked a huge meal with all the trimmings because she was supposed to host her whole family but illness & other things had caused her family to all bow out at the last minute. She had gone ahead and cooked everything because the bird had been thawed, etc. and so she went ahead and cooked it. Everyone was for her going home & bringing the turkey and trimmings back to WH. You know those Golden Moments that can’t ever be planned but turn out perfectly? This was one of those moments. Best Thanksgiving ever. We ate so much and stayed so long that we ended up sleeping at a rest area a few miles down the road because back then there weren’t very many hotels on that stretch of highway. May everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving that’s at least half as magical as our Waffle House Thanksgiving in Mississippi in the mid 1980’s… <3
That is so sweet. Mississippi has earned its name, The Hospitality State. Good to read something positive about my home state.
What a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing.
I love this story!
Love and peace to all, like the Christmas carrols exchanged over no man’s land.
We had the traditional fixin’s yesterday with one set of family. Thanksgiving “dinner” is actually lunch in old Southern vernacular and the evening meal is supper. So we had dinner at high noon. A lovely table of china and crystal set by my sister, the consummate hostess. Tonight we’ll host my in-laws. We’re having gumbo, cornbread, chocolate pie, with assorted appetizers and salads. Look up strawberry pretzel salad, which is more dessert than anything. Addictive! Happy Thanksgiving, y’all. Tamara, I’m thankful for you and this little hub of fun you’ve created.
OMG, your dinner tonight sounds AMAZING! Happy Thanksgiving!
My parents didn’t didn’t do gumbo this year. I think that’s a first! Your dinner sounds great. I hope the gumbo was fantastic! The Egg Bowl pretty much ruined my appetite for late night deserts and leftovers.
I have this man you has worked for me in my yard, building fences, doing lawn work, and other projects for years. He has family here and in Louisiana. At some point he started spending most of his time in LA. He makes great gumbo. Recently he was in town and powerwashed the ghetto shack for me. I told him I needed some gumbo. He said his daughther was coming up and he would try to make some when she arrived. That was a couple weeks ago. I am giving up hope. LAWD that man can make some gumbo. I’m jealous of all of you who got some good gumbo.
I’m jealous. You had two pieces of Hummingbird Cake and couldn’t be bothered to send me one. Looking out for you ’cause lentil season will be here before we know it.
I came up with a basic, simple from of everything needed, and it was easy enough that the boys were at the store when I woke up. (I did wake up within the football schedule time mentioned)
They were able to get the easy items I had mentioned yesterday, and it is done, ready to go when we are (Or eat all day 🙂
This year things were adjusted so we all will enjoy today.
(My mom emailed me before I had even woke up. I’m so thankful for that it can’t be explained )
Hope everyone has one of their best this year. 🦃
Happy Thanksgiving, Tamara. Hope you made it to your sister’s for the feast.
Mellow and quiet here. Daughter, SIL, hubs and me. Everything on my plate was Weight Watchers’ worthy. 45 pounds down and I am not ruining it for one meal.
Large crew coming for dessert later. I need more wine.😉
Enjoy the day, everyone. ❤️
I’m doing WW too! Nearly 40 lbs. (I’m not sure b/c my scale went screwy last week.) We had a large crowd and they all brought something, so couldn’t control the points too much. I also know that if I worried about it too much, I’d quit altogether.
So have been eating SUPER well this past week (my weigh in day is Friday) and ate 4 points under most days this week (the others were 1 or 2 pts under). I’m sorta bad about measuring exact amounts, but I just entered all the points I ate on Thanksgiving into the app. Consumed 60 points worth of food and drink, and still have some weeklies left over so I’m having a glass of wine. Tomorrow’s weigh in may be bad, but no regrets. Back to eating healthy until Christmas Eve!
Waiting for our table at Capital Grille, dinner with our real family—friends! Still going to make the full dinner over the weekend and STILL not invite the actual family 😀 hope everyone has a lovely day with the family of your choice!
Happy Thanksgiving all!
I made it to my sisters! My brother was there and I haven’t seen him in forever and we have communication issues. I didn’t think he was coming this year and I bawled like a dumb little sister when I saw him. My anxiety was low today but as the crowd started swarming in the crazy started coming out. But I came just before dinner and left shortly after and it was the perfect amount of time.
It was supposed to be just the family which is like 12 or so of us but we had the usual gate crashers arrive. So there were about 20 or so people. I was thrilled that none of the gate crashers brought crying babies, and then somebody in the other room literally FACETIMED A SCREAMING BABY DURING DINNER. WHY?
My sister never sits down to eat after cooking and it was just me, my brother, my eldest nephew and my niece’s son at the “adult table.” Which was great. It was all the quiet people lol. The baby sort of kicked off the anxiety and it is always hard for me to eat with people for some reason. I get “full” after three bites. But I got to pack up a full turkey dinner plate with my sisters biscuits and dressing and the whole nine. AND TWO PIECES OF HUMMINGBIRD CAKE and a slice of pumpkin pie.
And I didn’t get lost coming or going! lol Yes, I do know where my sister lives but there are 37 ways to get there and I often get lost.
It was a really good Thanksgiving! And the anxiety actually lifted on the drive home since I took the backroads and we are all tucked in back home now.
I bought Banjo special dogfood tonight with turkey, liver and duck. He NEVER gets poultry unless I cook it. I thought he would love it but he didn’t even sniff it. I think he is mad at me for leaving him. 🙁 Maybe he will try it later… Or I will share some of my Turkey.
I’m so glad you had a good time! Short and sweet seems like the way to go with most family gatherings. 🙂
Hummingbird Cake is the bomb diggity!
What a wonderful day! And yay for low anxiety! Hugs to Banjo. My two got turkey heart and they are in food comas.
I woke up at about 1:00 this morning and cooked everything. Then I worked for a bit. Tonight I’m drinking wine and playing games, Yahtzee and Uno, with my Mom. Also missing my Grandma terribly. I hope you all had a happy holiday! I love reading everyone’s comments here and also see who stays after the wrath of TT
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Unfortunately my sister (Debbie Downer) has started up with the tude and always f^cks it up for me. I tapped out after an 1 1/2 and went home. It’s always walking on egg shells with her. Came home and got drunk by myself. Being alone I’m loving life right now, drunk and all. Hope everyone else had a good Thanksgiving.
We had old peoples’ supper tonight. Fly Boy had cold cereal & box wine. I had Maple Cheerios & seltzer. I think I’m dessert. We did have a lovely Thanksgiving dinner earlier in the day at the home of old friends of Fly Boy. The husband had been a SCUBA student many years ago when he was still single & they had become close over the years. The couple has 2 college kids & one still in HS. The elder boy is at the Air Force Academy, where he is studying Russian (another spook in the making, I think) & the girl just started at the same university as my elder great-granddaughter & their majors overlap, so I’m connecting them. My kitchen is in the process of being dismantled (new cabinets are currently in a shipping container in the back 40), so my contributions were simple–48 deviled eggs, each topped with paprika & a slice of green olive, a brown & wild rice rice dish with mushrooms topped with parmesan completely created in the microwave, a store–bought carrot cake, ambrosia with the good cocoanut & lots of pickles, olives, etc. It was a nice afternoon with lovely people unrelated to us, including a couple of nice Marines invited from the local base. We did turn down a tardy-as-usual invitation for dinner from my elder granddaughter, & though we were sorry to miss seeing her husband & children, it was just as well because she is not only a less than stellar cook, she is a rude-going-through-perimenopause hostess who would have left us without saying a word as soon as the stores opened for the Black Friday sales. We can visit with the kids one day this weekend without having to deal with their mother, & without having to drive so far, since the two older girls have their own vehicles. All we have to do is meet them part way & offer them lunch or early dinner. They’ll ferry the younger girls & we’ll have a nice catch-up chat all around. Win-win. Wishes to all for continued happiness & good shopping (I already snagged a great deal to put away for what I perceive as an upcoming wedding)–
So I had the best day planned.
One of my childhood friends just bought a 75 foot Hatteras and we were going to go out on it today with my childhood BFF and I came down with strep throat which I haven’t had in years.
Restaurant is closed so the hubs cooked a Tofurkey and waited on my all day.
It was a gorgeous day and I hate I didn’t get out on the water today.
My sympathies–missing a day on a Hatteras, or any other boat, is a sad event indeed! Take those antibiotics without fail. Even so, it can take two or three doses to finally get rid of that darn bug, so take care of yourself. We spent most of last winter giving it back & forth to each other.
OH! OH! OH! I FORGOT MY LEAD STORY! My favorite nephew,( disclaimer, I have 7 nephews and they are all my favorite but don’t tell my secret) Anyway the only one who can carry on the family name is PREGNANT! YAY! I need him and his wife to start spitting out babies. I need a girl first and then a bunch of boys.
There is a lot of family jewelry that went to me and my female siblings. The males sort of felt some kind of way about that, but um, it’s jewelry. But I want it to go down the family line. This nephew is the only one who will have genetic kids with our last name. The other nephew with our last name’s father told us long ago we are all dead to him and married someone with a premade family. SO THIS IS THE GOLDEN CHILD. I already want to set up a 503b. Is it too soon? I’m very excited even though this favorite nephew is never at family functions.
Is it too late to try to enroll the unborn child in the best preschools? Is there something I can send the child’s mother I have never met to insure a female? Is it too early to get her a nanny or send her some sort of pregnant lady shit?
I think Brother is not excited to be “grandpa.” lol. Until that beautiful baby GIRL gets there.
Mazel Tov!
Well this is incredibly good news! Congrats!
Well, the usual hosts couldn’t host this year, so my mom volunteered which means I’m partial host. My place is WAY too tiny for our crowd.
We provided the main dishes and a couple of sides (my mom and i overplan and worry about there being enough). Main proteins were prime rib and because I wanted to do a few zero points options, so I did an experiment and did a turkey breast in the Instant Pot. It was seriously the best I’ve ever had – SO MOIST. I also did a huge fruit salad…. everyone had some, and there is still so much left.
Oh, funny story. So in the bottom of the Instant Pot, I put the chopped carrots, onions, and celery that I had cooked down on the stove with some chicken broth and minced garlic. (You have to have at least a cup of liquid) Wednesday night I had rubbed the entire Turkey breast with a mix of salt, pepper, garlic powder, dried sage, dried thyme. Added a 1/4 cup of white wine at the last minute before putting it under pressure.
So it is time to take the turkey out, and I take said broth and veggies out, and used an immersion blender to blend in the veggies.
I go to my parents’ pantry where they have kept the flour for the LAST 35 YEARS OF MY LIFE and put it in the pan on top of the melted butter. Then poured in that delish broth. It wouldn’t thicken, so had to resort to cornstarch slurry. A lot.
Friends.. it WAS NOT FLOUR. I made gravy with CONFECTIONERS SUGAR.
My mom and I thought it tasted mildly sweet, but I thought maybe I had maybe used a too sweet wine with the carrots (which were also sweetish).
So we poured in the gravy packet that came with the turkey breast in to the pan… then my mom saw where I got the “flour”.
We served it anyway, and people ate it!
Ha! That’s great, and totally something I would do. Though I’ve never gotten my instant pot out of the box🤪I’m tempted to try…most turkey is SO dry.
Oh, the turkey was really moist even though I know it was slightly overcooked at 175 degrees (next time will put it under pressure for 25 vs. 30 minutes, natural release). We also make jambalaya in the instant pot that is delish!
Remind me to tell you about the time I was in Boston and offered to make pumpkin pies at Christmas. Everyone was pretty much out of the house but me. The pie had been in the oven a long time and I wasn’t getting that pumpkin pie smell.
Um Apparently in Boston they keep GIANT CONTAINERS OF SALT that I dipped to instead of sugar. No one just laughed it off, because…. MASSHOLES. It was bad. Like unbelievably bad.
Oh and also, you WW folks should join the super duper secret Lentil subgroup here. Click FT on the black bar. 🙂
3 weeks ago it was Thanksgiving with barely anybody at my brothers. Then his best friend lost his parents, invite the best friend of course. Then sister’s ex decided there wasn’t room for his oldest girl at his place for Thanksgiving so throw in the niece. Then my oldest son decided yesterday morning, hey lets go to Uncle’s instead of me cooking. So our dinner of 6 turned into a dinner of 32!! Once my brothers bf was invited my brother just kept inviting his friends to support his best friend. We had too much drink, we had way too much food and an hour in my youngest son showed up! Had a great time playing with a ton of kids and drinking once the kids left! Seen people I haven’t seen in 15 years.
At 63 yrs old, I FINALLY stopped all contact with family members who are angry, mean, evil, cause problems and you have to walk on eggshells around them. It’s year 3 now and I have to tell you, holidays are WONDERFUL. I actually look forward to being with family now. She doesn’t sit in the living room and yell out what she wants me to pack for her to take home (DARK MEAT ONLY! she yelled from the couch – she was like 25 then… ), no hateful looks, no bad attitude, NOTHING. Just end it with hideous “family” members. This one was family through marriage but my nephew obviously has no balls and refuses to stand up to her so he’s out too. Enough is enough with people ruining holidays!!!
Hi Gigi! I’m so damn proud of you & in AWE of you also! I’m gonna be 60 next month & am finally realizing I own my life & can do whatever the hell**I**want!
Fortunately I don’t have any relatives now I need to cut, just some situations & bad habits.
Had a nice Thanksgiving w/ my sister & family in SLO county in CA. Christmas in town w/ my brother & family. Don’t want ANY gifts, don’t have energy to deal w/ that crap. Really looking forward to my 36th(!!!!!!) wedding anniversary where I’m going to see a live (?) recording of a current “Les Mis” production on the big screen. LES MIS IS ONE OF THE TRUE LOVES OF MY LIFE💕🎶 I’ve seen it live live @ least 20 times, I’ve lost count. And my wonderfully patient hubby goes with me to see it every time I ask him🥰
Feeling grateful & excited for the new year!
Love & peace to all 💕💞
I’ve enjoyed everyone’s Thanksgiving adventures! Growing up, we never really did traditional Thanksgiving things. We’d always have gumbo, rice, potato salad, along with boiled shrimp and oysters for appetizers. This year my parents did a traditional theme. I made Mac and cheese from scratch which turned out SO good and I’m not even into that kind of thing. My oldest daughter also made a perfect cherry pie. We went over and ate around 1pm. Everything was chill and nice. Home by 5:30. Oh! I got to visit my baby nephew too. Thanksgiving just isn’t my favorite holiday. I love my family and I love food! lol. I’ve just experienced too many families making the day into weeks of stress. My favorite holiday will always be Halloween. The trick or treaters are always so happy and so thankful for their bag of candy. I think we had around 100 kids this year. Seeing that many happy people in just a few hours warms my blackened heart like nothing else.
I also love Halloween. Even though I love Christmas, there’s so much pressure for perfection. No gifts, no extreme decor, no crazy spread of food and assorted relatives to visit!
My mom emailed me THREE times!? I told bff probably guilt.
SHE SAID “YEAH, PROBABLY GUILT” It struck me so funny the seriousness. I have been getting her through this first holiday after losing her mom suddenly. Her humor was hilarious. She will be okay. She has 9 grand babies so I told her that they need her to be okay.
I just don’t know what to make of the emails. Hmmm. Oh well, no complaints!!!
Better late than never, right.
(Every thing I thought bothered my mom about me, I stopped doing. So lack of info may be the key) I love her, she loves me finally.
Happy THANKS giving. Xo
Don’t mean to pry but I’m very curious about your mom situation. “She loves me finally “ made me sad yet I can relate to this. I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours! And why am I just now learning you have a daughter? You are holding tea, friend. I’m interested. I have zero problem putting all my shit on blast here but doubt anyone would want to read it… everyone would start running the warm bath water and start sharpening their razors. So I totally understand not wanting to burden others with the details. I came to peace and acceptance about it all, but now that she’s living with me it can trigger me sometimes but I’m pretty solid in blowing most of her stuff off. Believe me I could write volumes. I wouldn’t do that to TT and turn the site back to a dumping ground of whining like when the cat ladies were here. But, I’m wanting you to know that you are not the only one and not alone. I’m sure she does love you, she might not have a clue or the capability to show you for a variety of reasons. That’s on her though. I’m glad you got some validation from emails but I’m thinking this wound is deep and just really hope you know that you’re enough and are loved. If you ever really want to talk, ask Tamara for my email. Hugs.
IJC…….
Same ♡
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving TT and fellow TT Homies!!
Life has been weird lately…..not bad, just weird.
Oh well change in lifestyle is good and I definitely feel better and I’ve dropped a few pounds. I’m not watching any Housewives shows anymore,( only Dallas) I love my Million Dollar Listings and Im still on board for some Shaws of Sunset!
I love visting your site TT, it’s comfortable and familiar and never FAKE. People may be inappropriate sometimes, but that’s what makes it REAL. Today, reading Mizgrandma, Marc, JustJenn, CherylB, Erica, JoJo and many other commenters who have become so familiar to me thru their storys, just warms my heart ❤!!
It gets too peoply out there for me sometimes but here is my happy place to visit.
Cheers to you TT
and my fellow TT Homies
Blessings
Cheers to you Ronda. 😊
Oh man, so my sister just showed me this video that Teen Vogue put out about Thanksgiving. It’s really depressing, but it gave me information that I didn’t know before.