What's your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

[Missy Vixen]

Let's dwell on something happy for a few minutes. ;-)

My favorite was two years ago. Our aunt decided to get the vast majority of the family together for Thanksgiving dinner. Any time at all I get to spend with our grandma is a treat. She's 83 now.

It's a nice memory, and hopefully, we'll have something equally as nice on Thursday afternoon.

How about you?

Julie

[malta blue]

1. When I was in college, a couple of my friends came home with me....

One had never been on a plane before :wow: and the other died of AIDS a couple of years after that.

We had a great time, just hanging out and letting my mom cook ;)

[Missy Vixen]

2. I hope there will be more great memories in your future!

The "just hanging out and letting my mom cook" is the greatest, isn't it?

:hug:
Julie

[malta blue]

10. She is offering to help, but this year I am doing the cooking...

and hanging out with Little MB.

:hug:

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Waking up that morning to the smell of the turkey cooking.

I'll never forget it. It was so wonderful. When I moved out, I really missed it. :cry:

[Missy Vixen]

4. Tomorrow morning, you have to show TM how to cook a turkey!

She probably already knows, though.

:hug:
Julie

[Midlodemocrat]

6. I got the best deal on a Butterball this year.

22 pounds for $15!!!!

Our local grocery stores gives away turkeys based on how much you spend, and I got two. Mr. took those downtown to the shelter today. My dad gave turkeys to the shelter very year until he died. Even in the end throes of ALzheimer's, it was one thing he always made sure happened.

He was a great, great man. :cry:

[Danger Mouse]

5. I forget.

:P

[MorningGlow]

7. Every Thanksgiving when I was little

At the time our Italian family was enormous, anchored by my grandmother and grandfather from the Old Country. We'd gather at my aunt and uncle's house and there was NO ROOM to actually sit at the table, so the dining room table became a gigantic buffet, and you grabbed a plate and sat wherever you could find a place, with the plate on your knees and your glass on the floor next to you. I remember eating on the stairs one year. And it was fun spazzing out with my cousin, who was the same age as I was--we had a great time together.

[underpants]

8. Army cow at an ammo depot pulling 2 on 4 off guard duty

I stood there thinking "Nothing can possibly suck as much as this" *

* I did a Christmas there and a New Years Eve too. Always thought the same thing.

[Rhythm]

9. Two best Thanksgiving's ever...

Chronologically listed...

Age 18, i invited my FWB Richard over for dinner. I'd been hanging out with him for a while, and my parents were interested in finally meeting my 'boyfriend' (he wasn't, really... it was just a case of friends who slept together).
He was a few years older than me (he was 24), a college grad, and a nut about trivia stuff, so after dinner, i suggested that the whole extended family group up into teams, so that we could play the newest game out there... Trivial Pursuit!
Rich and i beat my entire family twice within an hour (he was awesome with the academic questions, and i was a whiz with the pop culture stuff), then excused ourselves to go and hang out at his place for the rest of the night. I didn't hear the end of that for a while...

~*~*~

2001, Oktoberain, OktoberBaby, and i drove from VA to Mom's house outside of Charlotte, so that she could meet my relations. Within a few minutes of us arriving, and Oktoberain getting acquainted with my mother and step-father, Mom called me into another room, and quietly told me, "You did good this time; not like that idiot you married."
:rofl:
Mom never did like my ex-husband... and for that staid, conservative, fundie-Christian woman to actually speak up and give her 'approval' on my new spouse was nothing if not miraculous.