Who else is doing thanksgiving without the relatives

[jdots]

normally i can cope for a few hours,but this year i can't. If someone brought up voting for bush i might push thier face up the turkey's ass then pour gravy on them.

[Sannum]

1. I am going to stay home alone...

It sounds better than having to deal with the * loving relatives.

[Mabus]

2. I wish

just got an e-mail from a brother who lives nearby asking what's going on next Thursday.

[Liberal Mommy]

3. We are staying home

It will just be the kids & us. I don't want to deal with my repuke inlaws. My parents have both passed away so its time to start some new traditions.

[fleabert]

4. DH and I are not doing the big trip to TX this year.

thinking about not doing the Xmas trip either...

[SoCalDem]

5. I invited my best friend and her brother

Our son (the only one who lives here) will go to his fiancee's house..

She comes from a huge Mexican family and they would get lots of grief if they did not attend the family gathering.

For us, it's just my husband(who hates turkey) and me..and this year my friend and her brother..

I have never spent much time around her brother..It could be interesting.. He's 50-something, and has brain damage that he suffered in a beating when he was only 17.. She cares for him in her home.. He's a nice guy, but tends to repeat himself.. A LOT !!!

[Skittles]

6. haven't done Thanksgiving with my family for 30 years

nt

[PittLib]

7. Yeah, I'm scrapping it too...

My repug brother is going to my mom's (1 1/2 hour away) and dad didn't have the decency to invite me to the family Christmas vacation (skiing,therefore thinks that I should jump through hoops to drive 6 hours to be with them "while I can") so ... I'm not going to the expense of putting my dogs in the kennel.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Good news for the dogs

And for you. Though I am sorry that you can't be with your Dad. But I just cannot deal with my Freeper mother, so I understand.:shrug:

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I'm spending Thanksgiving with kindred spirits

And I have no doubt that the conversation will turn political, like it always does, but I'm on safe ground with this group, three of whom, besides me, are members of DU. One turned me on to DU and I did the same with his two sisters. My Freeper mother, on the other hand, will be spending Thanksgiving with my aunt and cousin in another part of the country. I had better e-mail my cousin, giving her a heads up on what a firestorm any mention of politics could ignite, though she probably already knows my mother's views. My cousin totally wanted Bush* out and my mother voted for him, against her own best interests. If she'd speak to me rationally about it, I'd explain why, but she's become a Bush* apologist of the worst sort. I understand your dilemma. I couldn't do it, either, especially now. I pity my poor cousin.:-(

[Brumbi23]

10. I'm spending it at my roommate's family....

I'm down in Texas, and my family is up in Oregon (not worth the plane trip for four lousy days). No hatred toward my family however.

I do think it is tragic that many families can't just shut up about politics for one dinner. I can't believe the "divorcing the family" threads I have seen. Is politics really thicker than blood? I really do hope y'all make peace with you familes.

God Bless!

[Benhurst]

11. Thanksgiving is one schlock American holiday I can do without.

Why set aside a special day to honor the fanatical Puritans, when we are forced to endure the stupidity of their idealogical descendants every day of the year.

Unlike our deist Founding Fathers, who were great men, the Puritans were superstitious white trash who couldn't make it in England or Holland and came to the New World not for religious freedom, which they had in Holland, but to establish a Jim-Jones-style religious state.

Yeah, like that's something I really want to celebrate. NOT.

[Dzimbowicz]

12. I'll be alone and at my beach house!!

Nothing against my family, or what remains of it, but I need vacation from it all.

[Carson]

13. Nope, not me. I'm looking forward to the gathering of all 28 of us...

big turkey, lots of dressing ("stuffing" to you non-Southerners), and all the various trimmings.

The majority of my family are Conservatives, but so what? We can still get together and get along.

As for this holiday being something where people honor the Puritans, I know we don't sit around discussing them, or singing songs to them, or raising a glass to them. For my family, this "holiday" is simply a chance to be with one another; it's about US as a family. Lighten up a bit, folks. Geez. Not everything has to be a political statement.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great week, regardless.

[Sabriel]

14. We're skipping it for the same reason

Partner's mother is a Faux-watcher, ditto for the aunt and uncle, so we're going to stay here and do a little family thing for ourselves.