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We are making dinner here with our son, DIL and two grandkids coming over. I saw our son tonight and told him to invite any of their friends over that might be alone and want to come, even if just for dessert.
I cleaned the refrigerator today, washing the shelves and bins. There’s a lot more to clean out now than our first tiny fridge. At least I don’t have to boil water and defrost the ice inside the freezer, remember that? I swear I did that every other week! I thought of that today and quit mentally complaining. I made a shopping list and am heading out to the grocery store early tomorrow. I’ve been stockpiling a few items, so it’s not a ton of stuff to get all at once. It’s a lot of work, but I enjoy doing it.
We spent last year alone but this year a cousin and her husband expressed a wish to come see our new apt.
So I said, How about Thanksgiving?
A real benefit is that her husband is really into cooking so they're bringing all the vegetables. Even home made cranberry sauce.
That leaves me to buy a turkey breast and make a pumpkin pie. As the time draws nearer I'm getting excited. I never thought I'd be using my good china and silver again. Cousin is 85 years young so she will appreciate the nicely set table. I'm going to throw the boxes still unpacked from moving into one of the bedrooms and keep the door closed, lol.
Actual Turkey Day it will just be the two of us, although we will be going out Friday with friends and Saturday to a large holiday party.
Usually we spend it with our son, but this year he and his gf are going on a cruise. Instead of us going to see him over this holiday, they will come up here in late December.
Other than him we have just about no family left.
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The Dentist actually said it was possibly the reason. I've heard that a mineral deficiencies especially of calcium, magnesium, zinc, or riboflavin can affect oral health in many ways. He's had a lot of health issues (2 types of cancer) since 2014 so I don't know if any of that helped speed up the process but he made it 68 years with all his teeth. He considered implants but decided at this point it's not worth the cost.
For Thanksgiving we're having homemade creamy potato soup and jello which will be easy on him.
A quick off-topic suggestion, if it has not already been mentioned to you: Dentists can sell a prescription-grade fluoridated toothpaste. You brush with it and do NOT rinse, just spit it out. In fact, you should not eat or drink anything for at least an hour afterward. Because our water is not fluoridated, I use this most nights just before bedtime. Alternatively, or in addition to the special toothpaste, the dentist can have you do a swish-and-soak of fluoridated solution at each checkup. The toothpaste costs $14 and easily lasts 6 months.
My husband and I have Thanksgiving alone, no family left. Since it's just the two of us we have a small meal, chicken, dressing, green beans, chicken and dumplings, basically whatever we feel like. One year we went to a restaurant and it was really good but swore we'd never do that again because of the line and crowd.
My husband has always taken care of his teeth but he's been fighting a losing battle and finally gave up, they continue to break. Monday he goes in and will have them pulled. We could join some others here for a potluck but he has to be a soft diet, we'll be having soup. The Dentist thinks having well water most of his life could have caused this.
What plans do you have and do you have a big traditional meal?
My lovely SO and I will be eating alone, at home. Originally made reservations for the Thanksgiving buffet at the country club but decided to go with a traditional dinner at home, supplied by Safeway.
Note to OP - Sorry to hear about your husband's dental issues. We can both relate
Hey, you're the one who brought up your fathers being alone and also that your father-in-law will be bitterly disappointed. If you didn't want anyone to comment on that situation then you should have kept those details to yourself.
I agree.
Hes bitterly disappointed regardless of what we do. He was disappointed when i DID put on the whole shebang.
There is tension so thick between my OH and my FIL that you can cut the air with a knife. They never have gotten along, ever. You cannot put those two in the same room, heck they cant even talk civilly on the phone let alone be in the same room without fighting.
He is 90 and is bitter ti be living do long especially since MIL died. I only continued to do the whole shebang for MIL. My mother passed away many years ago. Lonv after i was physically able to do it anymore.
Since YOU dont know the family dynamics AT ALL, its NOT YOUR PLACE to pass judgement on anything i said.
Perhaps you need to know more about people and familial situations before YOU decide how people should handle things .
And my father? He doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving anymore sinve my mother passed. Has no desire to.
Now you know more THAN i wanted to tell based on YOUR RUDE SUGGESTION.
This thread sounds like an assumption that everyone is married or has kids but that's isn't the case. I'm single and have tons of single friends (both male and female). None of us are widowed nor divorced with kids nor do we have any SO's.
I'm going with a friend to see her relative in a nursing home and we'll eat there. I also hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for another friend at my house over the weekend because I'll be busy on Thanksgiving itself.
It's just another day. Personally I don't eat a lot and don't drink so the food aspect is wasted on me.
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I made a shopping list and am heading out to the grocery store early tomorrow. I’ve been stockpiling a few items, so it’s not a ton of stuff to get all at once. It’s a lot of work, but I enjoy doing it.
