Thanksgiving anyone? - Page 2

[isosmom]

Glad to know I'm not the only one who is up in the air. We alternate years between my dad's and my mom's house and this year is my dad's, which is always a bit more stuffy, they don't really have much for me to eat (I'm veg) etc. So I won't really mind not going. If it were at my mom's, much more laid back, veg friendly, my kids have their own room there etc, I would be there, no problem.

[GooeyRN]

I am due right around T-day. We didn't make any plans. I don't want a housefull here, with me having to cook/clean while hugely pregnant or with a newborn, nor do I want to travel with a newborn and a toddler, to stay with family that does NO childproofing whatsoever. (neither side has childproofed their homes) How will I be able to sit and nurse a baby when my 2 year old is getting into everything possible? Forget it. So, we will make a simple meal here, and if people want to come visit us they can. But no way am I going nuts this year!!!!!

[GearGirl]

I'm playing it by ear as well, we will either go to dh's uncle's, his cousing, or I will be having the baby .

[Undercover Hippie]

I'm actually due the 12th but expect baby more like the 20th or 22nd... so I am using this baby as a great excuse to get out of all Thanksgiving plans. I don't have to commit to going anywhere, cooking anything, hosting anyone... fine by me!

I don't totally want to miss out on the foods (just don't mind missing the company and/or the traveling) so I wouldn't be surprised if we make some small plans with my mom for just her and us. We could always move them to the weekend if we have to.

[oskie]

MIL and FIL are coming to our house. It's their year to host the family dinner, so they called it off and told everybody to make other plans, rather than have us need them at the last minute while the turkey is half-cooked, etc.

The menu is TBD, depending on how I feel and if the baby is here, but they're flexible enough to enjoy whatever we do.

My parents are planning on coming in sometime over that weekend. I really hope we're not going to sit around and wait for the baby to be born.

[GinaRae]

If babe comes just before Thanksgiving, I may stay home. even with slings and sitting in my friend's recliner, her MIL will want to be all over the baby, is quite loud and obnoxious, and i will be in the throes of trying to establish breastfeeding which has always been hard on me. No way do I want to be around people when I should be at home with my top off.

If babe comes on Thanksgiving, our friends will have to cook without my hubby! (In a long-standing tradition, he gets some guy friends, kicks all women, children and elders out of the kitchen, and cooks all day).

If just after Thanksgiving, that would be better!

[YankeeMomInVA]

I'm due just two days before Thanksgiving this year... and I was really stressing about Thanksgiving plans... We typically go home to NY to spend it with my parents and extended family every year. As much as I really want to do that and show off the new baby, there's no guarantee he'll be here in time and even if he is born in the next two weeks or so, he'll be so tiny... I just can't fathom making such a trip that soon after giving birth!

My mom rocks... because she called me the other day (the night before they left for *ehem* Barbados...those poor deprived souls! ) and she told me that to make things easier she and my dad would come down HERE for Thanksgiving so that we wouldn't be alone for the holiday.

(we don't spend any holidays ever w/Dh's mom and dad who live right up the road b/c they refuse to do anything but go to BILs house and we avoid BIL and his wife like the plague that they are)

I'm so delighted with the plans for this year. I really don't feel like making a 7 hour car trip with a newborn...and my mom said that they'd take care of all of the preparations for the meal!!!

[ComfyCozy]

Wow...

I'll be 38w6d on Thanksgiving, so I fully expect to be still waddling around. With all family anywhere from 9-18 hours away, needless to say, we will not be with family...and nor is any family coming to us. Mom might have been up here for the birth, but she refuses to since it's a home birth. Soooo....

It's going to be just us. I have no plans. I want a special dinner, but I know I'm going to be feeling awful. I could do some early cooking and freeze, and I just may do that, but right now I'm still trying to get prepared for the home birth. Holidays just are not on my radar, sad to say.

I've been so tired this last week I could barely get regular dinner on the table much less anything special... and four weeks from now? Shooooot.... Cereal!

[welldone]

I'm due the 8th, so I'll likely have a 2+ week old, but even if my baby comes tonight, I'm not cooking Thanksgiving dinner. Our families are all out of state, and my side will be flying in in mid-November to visit the baby and celebrate the holiday.

I agreed to this on one condition--I'm not cooking. So they're all aware and still coming, and I'm off the hook.

Christmas is up in the air. We may drive to visit family, if we're feeling settled with the new-ish baby. But I'm taking it easy on myself this year, because it's a lot of driving with three young kids.