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I'm not sure how we are doing this. This year has changed greatly. My FI moved in with me so I'm assuming we will go to my family's this year since it's in the same town.
Christmas is the big dilemna right now. His birthday is Christmas Eve so obviously his family wants to see him on his birthday. However, I'm an only child and my mom gets teared up when she thinks I won't be there on Christmas. We will probably end up trekking across the great state of Oklahoma in a 48 hour period 
Since we're living in Italy and it's not a holiday here but the husband has the days off work, we're taking a vacation to Sicily! We'll be partying it up in Palermo eating a huge multicourse restaurant dinner on a Thursday.
We'll be celebrating at home with my mom. My dad lives on continental Europe and his parents are English and therefore don't celebrate (really, we aren't American either but I've always celebrated it at school and the tradition stuck). So my sister is coming up from university and bringing a horde of friends and my MOH will be over visiting so we're just going to have a huge party with a turkey.
I'm not exactly sure how we're gonna do it this year...each year it's been a little different, but I see my dads parents on thanksgiving & my moms parents on the day after, so we'll have to figure out what we're doing, especially next year!
At my parents' house...though FI is working, so I'll be solo. We'll invite his family over, though since he is not coming, I'm not sure they will come.
We were planning on going to our mutual hometown, where we stay at his house but spend a pretty equal amount of time (and Thanksgiving dinners!) with both families. However, his law firm got approval for him to start next week instead of in January, so now we're not going home. My dad + siblings will be coming here instead...luckily my dad has volunteered to cook the turkey!
Since we don't live in the US amd don't get days off work we move Thanksgiving to the following Saturday. Last year we celebrated with other expats and this year his family will come down for the weekend and celebrate their first ever Thanksgiving with us at our apartment. Which reminds me, we better order a turkey!
We have two locations for every holiday now - talk about putting on weight during the holidays! We will likely start at my family's, which includes my mother's side of the family and my dad. Then, we will proceed to his family's side, which will be everyone who is still here from coming down for the wedding.
We all live in Orlando. So, it might be kind of weird to not go somewhere, but it is tiring to eat and drive across town and eat again. We are both nearly passing out by the time we get home. Oh well. The leftovers from both sides for the following week are incredible.
I have to work :(.... hopefully i'll be working during the day and I can celebrate with his family during the evening. I am pretty sure that I may have to work the day after as well...
hehe... I'll be at a school potluck. He'll be ... probably with friends from church.
Neither of us will be getting home for the holiday, which falls on his birthday this year!! so we'll definitely be on skype some too :)
MrBee, your parents are in SE Asia??? I luuuuuurve SE Asia!
@Slicey, where do you live? I'm totally (half) in an expat community too!
This is the last year we'll be spending Thanksgiving separately and then we're going to have to figure something out. We've never been able to coordinate the whole Thanksgiving thing (our families live about an hour apart) so we've just always spent it separately. However, we do the Thanksgiving Eve thing with my sister/her BF and we have a poker tournament on Saturday at my parents'. Plus we're doing some wedding stuff Friday afternoon with FMIL. So we're going to be spending more time together that weekend than usual, but the actual day separately.
We'll be going to my parents' house. FI's mom is a plane ride away and he has never gone to see her for Thanksgiving, and he dad doesn't really celebrate it (they don't cook so they just eat out at wherever is open). So-- thanksgiving is easy for us! My house every year :)
We used to drive to hell and back to make sure we covered everyone but two years ago, I just had enough. We hosted our parents at our house. Last year it was the FI, me and his parents and that's what it will be again this year. Small, fun and no driving!!
we are driving home to chicago together ( living in pittsburgh for the next 8 months ), then doing all Thanksgiving activities separately at our parents houses. I'm sure during our visit i'll be at his house/ he'll come to mine because our families live only 15 min apart.
My grandmother doesn't do the big thanksgiving anymore - she visits my uncle in FL and they make a little something there. So, we go to FI's grandmother's where his mother's entire family is and we do something there. It's like a potluck - everybody bring something. My father usually spends Thanksgiving in PA with his parents... so it's basically just with FI's family. :)
-Bella
@Leah..my FI birthday is also on Christmas Eve.
My FI and I will be hosting Thanksgiving dinner for both sides of the family at his home (soon to be our home). Except for my daughter who has visitation with her dad during Thanksgiving =(
Since he's English and his family lives in the UK, Thanksgiving isn't usually a problem. But my mom's entire side of the family has always been together for thanksgiving! It's definitely our biggest family tradition... so all 22 of us will be at my parents house in Northern Michigan for Wednesday-Saturday of Thanksgiving week! I can't wait!
We are going to his aunt and uncles who live closest to us but we will go to my parents for Christmas day.
We are hosting my parents and my grandmother for Thanksgiving. His parents are all the way across the country in Maine and his Mom decided to come last month to visit instead. I'm making a list of everything we need. Yikes!
Since I moved to FI's hometown, we usually spend it with my family. This year we're going to the OR coast to spend it with my aunt, uncle, cousins and grandparents :)
We are hosting my parents at our house for Thanksgiving. FI's family always has out of state plans. I cook everything, and have done so for the past 2 years! I enjoy it though (and so does everyone else)!
we just bought our first house, so we are hosting thanksgiving dinner with both sides of the family in a few weeks! i can't wait!!
FI spends it with his parents and I spend it with mine, all the houses are within 30 minutes of each other, and our Thanksgivings are at the same time, so it works out. FI doesn't want to spend it with mine b/c he wants to see his brother, and I don't want to spend it with his because my family is very much into holidays, so neither FI or I are bothered by such things! We do it that way every year.
FI and I (and his brother) will be celebrating with my family, since his is an ocean away..we're in charge of bringing the honey baked hams! yumm.
My parents are coming down and spending the long weekend with my FI and I. We don't live very close to either set of parents (mine are closer at a 6 hour drive away his are half way across the country). It will be the first time in a couple of years that we will be spending Thanksgiving with family so it will be nice.
We'll be at my family's massive 40+ person Thanksgiving dinner. And his mom, grandmother, sister, brother in law, and nephew will be joining us too.
This is so pathetic, but here goes:
No place. We are a LDR - he will be with his family, local to where he lives. I don't have any relatives or friends nearby. I have never spent it completely alone, and I just know I will be so depressed that I will be in NO mood to entertain anyone to have a full table.
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Our parents are far away... hers are across the country (LA), and mine are across the world (SE Asia).
So we'll be having Thanksgiving at home together... it will be just the two of us, unless we have a little one joining us :-).
How about you... are you having Thanksgiving at your parent's, your SO's parents, or just the two of you? Or maybe doing Thanksgiving at both parents'? :-)