I’m having Thanksgiving at my place this year; there’ll be just three of us: my boyfriend, my girlfriend and me. I’m doing Thanksgiving Dinner In a Box from the local grocery store. They do the whole dinner, including the turkey and sides and pie, for around $45. I’m stoked actually; it’ll be cool to put the leaves in the dining room table and get out all the fancy stuff and candles and have everything exactly the way I want it, on my schedule.
Scratch that! I just canceled the reservations; sister and fiancé decided that they’d like a gathering after all. They’re bringing his kids, not hers (who’s be at their dad’s), which will be fun because we’ll get to know them a little better; I spent a little time with them a few weeks ago, and they haven’t met Mr. S at all. They’re bringing a ham and (hopefully) a yummy pumpkin dip with ginger cookies that tastes just like pumpkin pie. Fiancé also makes killer gravy. I’ll do the turkey and other stuff (including REAL mashers and the dreaded Green Bean Casserole of the other thread 
), and then we can spend the afternoon playing board games until the kids have to go to their mom’s.
Of course, this means that most of the preparation (cooking and cleaning) is on me, because Mr. S works second shift Wednesday night, but I don’t mind. I’m home anyway and I don’t think I have any deadlines next week. Yay! I spend way too much time at this desk. I’ll love it!
This sounds like a subject for a whole new thread!
Heh. Well, the girlfriend part is why we’re not having dinner with my parents this year. Long story. Take that any way you will.
I just got The Call and for Thanksgiving, I’ll be bringing spinach dip* and one bottle of wine. I don’t know yet what I’ll be taking to Black Friday dinner**.
And this year, instead of the traditional Thanksgiving ham, my 16 year old nephew has declared that he wants to cook turkey, stuffing and apple pie. (I’ve already started the petition that we must have ham for Christmas to make up for it.) Everyone needs to cross their fingers for that turkey, please.
[small]*I tend to get assigned this when my oldest sister isn’t attending, because I bake fresh bread instead of using store-bought.
**I’m betting on strawberry daiquiri pie, as the hosting sister has a thing for it.[/small]
Those decadent Danes. Story County, Iowa, where I’m from, is heavily Norwegian. Norsky kringla are little things, about pretzel-size, and just plain, heavy, sweet yellow dough. Couple of those with coffee in the morning and you’re all set…to stagger back to bed. 
I’ll be bringing my credit card.
We’re not flying to any family this year (NJ or SoCal.) And since the house was robbed over the summer this place just isn’t home, so we’re not hosting a dinner for friends like we usually do when not with family either.
We’ll be going to the fancy schmancy restaurant in town for dinner and that will be that. Maybe a movie afterwards if we aren’t ready for naps.