Only three weeks until Turkey Day!

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I think I am going to wait until the week before Thanksgiving to start
getting excited.

I'm looking forward to what will hopefully be a peaceful and quiet day with friends and family. Not too excited about the clean up, which I'm responsible for each year, but other than that it should be fun!!

I'm ready for that pumpkin pie!!!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I always end up eating stuffing and cranberry sauce for a month straight!

I'm excited for Thanksgiving. I look forward to the turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. This year, should be a good Thanksgiving because it will be our First Thanksgiving in our new home.

It sure is going fast....with that said, I do enjoy the holidays with my family. :)

I'm ready for that pumpkin pie!!!

You can have my share also, I can't stand pumpkin pie. http://bestsmileys.com/thanksgiving/1.gif

I love Thanksgiving - I just hope I don't have to work!!! :eek:

Just looking at the large pumpkin pie makes me soooo hungry!!!! I can't wait!

But actually, it's the DAY AFTER Thankgiving that I look forward to - I don't have to work that day!! YAY!!!!

Cant wait!

I love the turkey dinner, but the holiday itself lost its charm when I lost my family. All holidays have. It's just not the same. Still, I make the best of it, but I don't look forward to any holiday anymore. I was so into Christmas before. I'd shop all year, decorate like crazy, etc.

yea, I can understand how something like that would put a damper on the holidays, Janice. I'm sorry.



However, with that said, I'm looking forward to both Thanksgiving & Xmas!!

I'm pretty excited...food plus family? Good times.

I love the turkey dinner, but the holiday itself lost its charm when I lost my family. All holidays have. It's just not the same. Still, I make the best of it, but I don't look forward to any holiday anymore. I was so into Christmas before. I'd shop all year, decorate like crazy, etc.
I'm sorry Janice. That has to be hard. :(

I love the turkey dinner, but the holiday itself lost its charm when I lost my family. All holidays have. It's just not the same. Still, I make the best of it, but I don't look forward to any holiday anymore. I was so into Christmas before. I'd shop all year, decorate like crazy, etc.
I know how you feel, Janice. The holidays just don't seem the same to me since my grandparents have been gone. :bighug:

lol

I'm always excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas as well.

wow...three weeks?! time's flying by! i'm SUPER excited for good food and great times with family/friends. and of course...black friday. ;) and then CHRISTMAS! woo!

I love the turkey dinner, but the holiday itself lost its charm when I lost my family. All holidays have. It's just not the same. Still, I make the best of it, but I don't look forward to any holiday anymore. I was so into Christmas before. I'd shop all year, decorate like crazy, etc.

i'm sorry. :( it must be really hard to not have your whole family with you.

Plus it's a great time to watch my favorite Thanksgiving themed TV episodes:

A Thanksgiving to Remember - Bewitched (1967)

An American Family - Bob Newhart Show (1974)
Over The River & Through the Woods - Bob Newhart Show (1975)

and last but not least:

Turkeys Away! - WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)

i feel the way janice does about it. most of my family is long passed and its just not enjoyable to me anymore. i look at the empty places at the table knowing each year that passes i'm farther removed from them. they are left where they are as time keeps marching forward. after my mom died we started having thanksgiving dinner at home town buffet but that was awful. my dad has remarried since but my stepmom is all about her family. by the time i get to their house they've already eaten (her daughter & grandkids) and everything on the table is cold and picked through. so i get my plate microwaved and still can't enjoy it because the 2 grandkids start tugging on my sleeves asking me to play with them while i'm trying to eat my food. its really miserable. and this year my sisters not coming to my stepmoms because she'll be in florida spending the holiday with my aunt whose all alone since her husband died and my husbands not going with me to dinner because he hates my stepmom and wants to be with his mom. the only thing i enjoy about the day is watching the macys' thanksgiving day parade.

when i was little we'd have thanksgiving at my grandfathers house, we'd come and there'd be turkey, mashed potatos, sweet potatos, green beans, cranberry sauce, corn - all the trimmings and of course we'd always have an italian dish too like lasagna. and the adults would eat in the kitchen and my sister, my cousins matt and luke and me in the den at the kids table and we'd have fun teasing each other and laughing and joking. my grandfather would have the record player going in the living room and we'd go through the newspaper looking at all the sales fliers. those were fun times.


FAITH IS BELIEVING IN THINGS WHEN COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU NOT TO - Fred Gailey & Doris Walker, Miracle ON 34TH Street

Plus it's a great time to watch my favorite Thanksgiving themed TV episodes:

A Thanksgiving to Remember - Bewitched (1967)

An American Family - Bob Newhart Show (1974)
Over The River & Through the Woods - Bob Newhart Show (1975)

and last but not least:

Turkeys Away! - WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)

i didn't think about that aspect: i like to watch miracle on 34th street (of course) right after the parade is over since thats where the start of the movie picks up at. and the movie dutch with ed o'neill, thats one of my fav. non-xmas holiday films. its so underrated but so good.

and i like the roseanne thanksgiving ep. from season 2 or 3 can't remember which. i have that on dvd. i'm not a big roseanne fan and only like the 1st couple seasons of the show but enjoy this ep because its very much like a real family.

and of course my favs. besides miracle on 34th are a garfield thanksgiving special and a charlie brown thanksgiving.

FAITH IS BELIEVING IN THINGS WHEN COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU NOT TO - Fred Gailey & Doris Walker, Miracle On 34TH Street

I'm exicited for Thanksgiving because I get to see some friends and relatives.

I also have dealt with a personal family loss, like Janice.

My grandmother passed away five years ago, and my mom's nanny died that same year as well.

I love Thanksgiving! My husband and I always go to a nice restaurant and eat and then come home and watch the Macy's parade (which I always TiVo!). My family is in Texas but we talk on the phone, which is nice.

Three years ago I requested to have the day after Thanksgiving off from work. I submitted my leave request just days before a YEAR in advance and I was TURNED DOWN! I was so ticked about that for the entire year! Well I held this grudge until the dreaded day came and it turns out that it was actually a really nice day to work because it was really slow!

So now I don't mind working on the day after!:lol:

Andrea

For the last couple of years me and my friends get together the Sunday after Thanksgiving for what we call "Friendsgiving". Those are the best Thanksgivings I have ever had. I would never tell my mother that because she would go ballistic.

i didn't think about that aspect: i like to watch miracle on 34th street (of course) right after the parade is over since thats where the start of the movie picks up at. and the movie dutch with ed o'neill, thats one of my fav. non-xmas holiday films. its so underrated but so good.

and i like the roseanne thanksgiving ep. from season 2 or 3 can't remember which. i have that on dvd. i'm not a big roseanne fan and only like the 1st couple seasons of the show but enjoy this ep because its very much like a real family.

and of course my favs. besides miracle on 34th are a garfield thanksgiving special and a charlie brown thanksgiving.

FAITH IS BELIEVING IN THINGS WHEN COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU NOT TO - Fred Gailey & Doris Walker, Miracle On 34TH Street
Oh, I forgot to add the Garfield Thanksgiving special to my list. Thanks for reminding me, Kimberlee!! :D

i didn't think about that aspect: i like to watch miracle on 34th street (of course) right after the parade is over since thats where the start of the movie picks up at. and the movie dutch with ed o'neill, thats one of my fav. non-xmas holiday films. its so underrated but so good.

and i like the roseanne thanksgiving ep. from season 2 or 3 can't remember which. i have that on dvd. i'm not a big roseanne fan and only like the 1st couple seasons of the show but enjoy this ep because its very much like a real family.

and of course my favs. besides miracle on 34th are a garfield thanksgiving special and a charlie brown thanksgiving.

FAITH IS BELIEVING IN THINGS WHEN COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU NOT TO - Fred Gailey & Doris Walker, Miracle On 34TH Street
I assume you mean the original "MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET" and not that HORRIBLE TV-movie remake from the 70s (which never gets shown on TV, which tells you how good it was). I think there was also a remake in the 80s or 90s, which I heard also isn't very good.

I assume you mean the original "MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET" and not that HORRIBLE TV-movie remake from the 70s (which never gets shown on TV, which tells you how good it was). I think there was also a remake in the 80s or 90s, which I heard also isn't very good.
I knew about the remake from the 1990s, but never knew they remade it in the 1970s. Who was in it?

Only 18 days until Turkey Day.

I'm looking forward to Turkey Day in two weeks.

I knew about the remake from the 1990s, but never knew they remade it in the 1970s. Who was in it?
Sebastin Cabot (Mr. French on "FAMILY AFFAIR" from the 60s, if you've ever seen it) as Kris Kringle/Santa Claus, and David Hartman as the lawyer.

I never cared for Thanksgiving at all; to me it is the most dreaded holiday.

Part of it is because I hate all of the traditional Thanksgiving food; especially turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing... etc.

Part of it is because I don't like most of my extended family so I dread seeing them.

I am sorta okay with it....I like the Bigg dinner with family and friends...and I enjoy my volunteer work...but the idea of all those turkeys being slaughtered for dinners breaks my heart:(

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Jenn

I never cared for Thanksgiving at all; to me it is the most dreaded holiday.

Part of it is because I hate all of the traditional Thanksgiving food; especially turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing... etc.

WOW.....

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I love Thankgiving. It's nice to sit around with family and eat too much good food.

Thanksgiving is soon! I know I got it first, I'm Christopher Columbus, y'all just the pilgrims.

I am excited about Thanksgiving because my family from new hampshire is coming down so I can see the kids!!

Yeah time to stuff our faces with 4000 calories in one meal.

http://www.dietbites.com/calories-in-holiday-meal.html :eek: