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OK, so what are you doing for Thanksgiving this year?
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

Call me crazy, call me irresponsible, but I am the only woman on the face of the planet who wants to cook a REAL Thanksgiving dinner and have it at her house. I have reached my mid-fifties and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had Thanksgiving at my house. Odd, right?

Whatever you do, I hope your Turkey Day is a happy one!
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

I will be going to my parents for the day. They live about an hour away and it will be nice to see thiem. After we eat, we will probably play a game or two of UpWords.
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Tessa Onyx, Foudini, Charlee, Spottie, ShyRaven, Buddy, Tuxie, Widdle Attila Sipowitz, Lizzie, Minnie, ET, Mylo, Penny (We be house cats at last), and Salem, Wicca and Marmalade (We iz also house cats, we guess)and the 5 porch kits also Riley da goggie and Alex da baby hamster too
Tabitha and Samantha..always in our hearts
A house without cats is like a garden without flowers

I will spend the day up in Hibbing at the home of one of my new students. Her parents, whom I enjoy immensely, invited me way back in September. I'll spend the night in a hotel so I don't have to drive home on a full tummy. LOL
Sheila will come to feed kitties Thursday night and Friday morning.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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The Wiscats: "Every life should have [at least] 9 cats"! Or is it "Cheaper by the [almost] dozen"??
The Excellent Lady Sophie-Marie Wiscat-StLouie
Poucette-Noelle CCarlini-Rexford
Simba Wiscat
Henri le Chanceux Wiscat
Minette Wiscat-CCarlini
Monsieur Gervais le Blanc Wiscat
Annie-Claire Rexford-CCarlini
Andre-Guillaume Wiscat
Beau Wiscat
Giselle-Elizabeth SpankyRanch
Sylvie-Chantal la Joie Wiscat-SpankyRanch
~~ and varying numbers of foster kitties coming and going - right now Violet and BIG kittens Gerry, Daisy, and Mike, plus Cece and orphan kittens, Bud, Night, Cookie and Cupcake ~~

Well since I dont have to work, Im gonna cook, havent heard from Gwen yet as to what she is doing...so just a small dinner, if thats possible , with all the trimmings, nuff fur 4, can't leave out Franci an Oscar...then play the rest of the day
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PHTessie

We are hitting the road to Michigan to have the holiday with friends. Looks like its going to be a big gathering of diverse people - I'm pretty excited - otherwise I think we'd be pressured into going to the evil aunt and uncle's!

For Christmas it looks like we are taking in any and all adult orphans - the separated, the divorced, those with family too far away to visit. We're replacing the kitchen floor first - I just hope it's done in time! Work starts Dec. 19th.

We are having a small one this year as only two children are coming for dinner today and two grandchildren. One is a stapping teenage boy so I cooked two pumpkin pies last night to cover desert today.
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Boris's Human, Pam

I am a little slow getting to this post. We went to my grandparents' home. There were 21 people there over the course of the day. 18 of us ate dinner there. My brother and his gf went backto her house to make dinner because her parents and my brother's mother were going there for dinner.
My sister's boyfriend showed up in time for dessert. It was a nice day. We came back up to my mom's house around 6:30. Steven left around 8:15 to head back to Old Orchard. He had to work today. YUCK!
Well I should get going. Need to see what my mom has planned for us today.

ps: Will some one remind me not to make mincemeat pie next year and to make three apples! The two apples I made this year were gone in ten mins!
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Gabby and Tucker

I just got back from spending Thanksgiving week with family in Iowa. Had a nice time. My cousins hosted the Thanksgiving meal and we had 11 of us...

Usually, I host Thankgiving here. My cousin Maria and her family comes. She lives in Philly and I live in Maryland, about three hours apart. We are the only family east of the Mississippi River. Everyone else is primarily in the midwest (with some in Texas and California). However, Maria's family keeps growing and growing and growing. They now have four small children under the age of eight. With each child, hosting Thanksgiving gets less and less enjoyable. All four are very active and my condo is very small. I am exhausted after hours of cleaning, cooking, and cleaning again, along with running after small kids that are like catching greased pigs squirting around the house getting into things... Too much now that she has four small ones.

So, I think this year spending it in Iowa with my parents and family worked out in more ways than one and I'll probably continue the tradition. I'll spend Christmas at Maria's where it is almost as much work helping with cooking and kids, but if they knock something over, like a TV, it is hers, LOL. I'll invite them here in the Spring when it is warm enough to play in our large city park and we can go out for Pizza after. Much easier to handle with them rough housing outside and not having to cook for them (each kid likes something different to eat -- very picky and she caters to it making different food for each of them at meals).
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

and not having to cook for them (each kid likes something different to eat -- very picky and she caters to it making different food for each of them at meals).
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Plu-ease! My mother made the same meal every night of my childhood - it was called take it or leave it! I know there are some people whose taste buds are so over tuned, strong flavors will make their tongues curl up and smoke - but what's the chances all 4 kids have something like that going on?

every time I buy baby food I think of a girlfriend who would not feed her first born anything that wasn't processed, marketed, or boxed as "kid's food" - which means everything was made with 4 main ingredients - sugar, white flour, corn sryup and artifical colors. Then she couldn't understand why her son went through mood swings. Saw her get him to eat a carrot once - he acted like he was being killed and went through a meltdown. I have yet to buy Gerber Graduates as a result, the slope is too slippery.

I was asked on Thanksgiving to talk to a teenager about sex and STDs since she wasn't willing to talk to her parents. So on Friday while everyone else was out buying gifts, I was in Walmart buying condoms! She's a freshman in college - seems like such a frank conversation should have been held sooner. Made for an interesting holiday.

Plu-ease! My mother made the same meal every night of my childhood - it was called take it or leave it!

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Amen. That is how we grew up. But, I only spend a day or two with them a year and I have learned, you cannot change the world in one day, so for family harmony, I bite my tongue... I really have come to dread the holidays if I spend it with them. Four spoiled small children (not their fault). I'll be there for Christmas. It is a long 24 hours. I have no tangible excuse not to go and, again, for family harmony, I'll go.

LOL to buying condoms at Walmart on Black Friday...
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

Hey! Sounds like your mom went to the same cooking school as mine!
Around here, they'd be lucky to even catch a meal!
Although I don't have kids, have never understood how someone can say, with a straight face, that she has no control over her eighteen-month-old.......what she eats or wears or plays with, etc. Yes, I've heard that. (Of course, all my furkids are purrfect, you all know.

Thank you for taking on the parental responsibility for the talk to the college freshman. You're right; it should have taken place years ago. (like at age 10.....kids today are faced with things in gradeschool that we didn't even think of until teens......when you have first-graders simulating sex on the playground, you know society is in trouble)

Lucky if she hasn't already had some problems (or if some don't surface later). She's lucky to have you!
Did grin at the shopping list.