This is only our 2nd Thanksgiving in the US, we don't have family here so will be spending it on our own.

Last night my daughters assignment was to write about what we will be doing at Thanksgiving. I'm sure she will get a few confused looks when she says for dinner she is having roast lamb and yorkshire puddings.

How's everyone else spending the holiday, have you embraced it, and did it take you long to adopt it as a true holiday, rather than a good excuse for a couple of days off work?

I love Thanksgiving. Since I have been over here (came in April 2002) I have really enjoyed every chance to be with my new family, and have had something special to be thankful for pretty much each year (wedding, promotion, new job, Green Card, Natz, other stuff).

The total non-commercial nature of TG really pleases me.

Plus we spend it with family in southern WA each year, so on Friday we can go to Portland and shop TAX-FREE!!!

I'm getting the hell out of dodge, and flying back to England on Saturday November 28th for some decent beer and some good-old English Food.

Enough of this Turkey nonsense!


Jim.

last year the hubster and I painted our living room / dining room / loft and hallway.

We had a lovely time. We listened to an audio book while we were doing it.

It's not that I don't like the idea of Thanksgiving, but we'd got together with the kids the week and we needed to get the house stuff done.

We then had a couple of days to relax before back to work.

This year, we're going to friends

That's why it's different for people who are married to USCs. My hubby's family have a huge family get together at Thanksgiving, lasting the whole weekend. Food, shopping, football, more food, etc. It's bigger than Xmas. Xmas is for the family, with the kids.

Don't make the mistake I did the first year of doing turkey for Thanksgiving... and then again for Christmas British-style.

I do turkey for Thanksgiving now, my husband is American and my two children basically are now as well! I even make pumpkin bread. For Christmas this year I'm doing ham.

After six years here I actually prefer Thanksgiving because you can keep it relatively cheap and there isn't all the manic present buying to do.

We were the token Brits at Thanksgiving for many years.
I don't cook for thanksgiving, we go to the SIL who even though she is a Brit, she has embraced the US lifestyle and all things American she's married a USC and has kids and goes all out. We take desert.
If we didn't go there I doubt we'd bother. We still do a traditional turkey for Christmas, along with a ham.

My husband, who is from the Middle East, doesn't like any of the traditional Thanksgiving food. He doesn't care for turkey, he doesn't like mashed potatoes, stuffing he can live without, he doesn't like green bean casserole, and doesn't care for pumpkin pie. I myself am not into the big holidays either, so it's fine with me that we don't do anything traditional for Thanksgiving. The past couple of years I've made his favorite meal on Thanksgiving - rack of lamb and rice, with sides of yogurt and green salad. Baklava for dessert. About as un-traditional Thanksgiving as you can get. LOL

Rene

We are having a big dinner with our friends across the street (hes aussie and shes usc). My brother in law will be here, oh yay

I will be working on black friday - good old retail, then we are having a partay on sat for the Georgia-Georgia tech game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I think im gonna do ham at xmas this year - last year I did ham AND turkey - and there were just the 2 of us!!!

oooowww that sounds wonderful!

This is only our second thanksgiving as well. Last year we were invited to have dinner with my husband's boss and his family which was lovely. They are actually Belgian but have lived in the US for about 20 years and have American kids so it was pretty traditional (I think ).

I don't know what to do this year, I can't decide whether to try and cook a special meal (not sure I fancy turkey so close to christmas) or to just take the opportunity for a few days slobbing about - not much time left to decide

I could really fancy going away for a couple of days, but I suspect a) it's not too practical to be travelling around that weekend and b) I've left it waaaay to late to book anything....

+1

Sounds yummy. I love Baklava

We went away last year to Yosemite, it was lovely and we had a big Thanksgiving buffet thing at the hotel. Its only 2 weeks before the in-laws come out for Christmas so didn't want to go away this year.

That sounds fab - off to search for any possible options that won't leave us bankrupt ....

Sounds yummy, lamb's my favourite - can I stop by your house?