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It is a grand holiday. 

Not sure why folks are in a hurry to put up and turn on lights soon.

It is a grand holiday.

Not sure why folks are in a hurry to put up and turn on lights soon.

Agree 100%.  I love Thanksgiving, it's a special and unique holiday.

I also consider it to be a truly American holiday, so my American flag always flies on Thanksgiving, just as it does for the 4th, Labor Day, Memorial Day, etc.

SO, the rundown this year is basically the same as prior years.  These days to help my folks out, we rotate hosting between my folks' house, my house, and my brother's house.  This year it'll be at my parents'.  Between our immediate families, and then my sister's grown kids and their families, we usually have around 12-14 adults and 4 - 8 kids.

We'll meet at my parents' around noon, eat around 1.  The Lions game will of course be on TV, as the prelude to the Cowboys game later in the afternoon.  In days of yore, we'd split around 4 to head down to campus for the Texas-Texas A&M game, every other year.  Perhaps we'll get to do that again in the coming years, it was always a special part of the holiday.

The menu will be pretty much the same.

1 deep-fried turkey (my dad's specialty)
1 smoked turkey (my contribution)
6 smoked turkey legs (new addition by me this year, my i s c & a aggie wife's Aggie parents asked if I could bring THEM some turkey, so I'll do the legs for them.  I'll probably snack on one as well...)
Cornbread dressing (my mom's specialty, which was my grandma's recipe and is the best Thanksgiving dressing on the planet)
Giblet gravy (dad makes this but I really should learn how)
Mashed potatoes (sister's specialty)
Sweet potato casserole (SIL will make this, she's a trained chef and it's magnificent)
Roasted root vegetables (my i s c & a aggie wife's recent specialty)
Ambrosia fruit salad (my grandma's recipe that my niece recently dug up and started making)
Pumpkin coffee cake (my daughter's recent specialty and it's milk free so my allergic niece can eat it)
Pumpkin pie (my son is making this today since he found out nobody was bringing any this year. We'll see how it goes but he'll have plenty of help if he needs it)
Homemade whipped cream

I think that's it.

So, everything has changed for us this week.

We were invited to our friend's house here for Thanksgiving. 

I was to make the mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and my home-made green bean casserole. My wife was going to make her Tuscan bread and deviled eggs.

Well, I'm still symptomatic from the Flu shit, and now my wife has gone down sick too.

We're staying home. I called it this morning.

I have no turkey (thawed) for tomorrow, so that's out the window unless I do a chick-thaw, which I do not like to do for health reasons. 

Maybe I'll grill a steak. There is a 2 pound ribeye in the freezer outside.

But, despite all of that, it's still the best Holiday of the year and always will be. We will make the most of it, as we recover. Maybe soak in the hot tub for a while.

We are still very happy and very thankful, so Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!

My yearly Thanksgiving will be heavily Navajo-influenced.  The blended family I fellowship with is emphasizing their 3 eldest kids' being half Navajo.
So my mission is to track down some mutton today.  
We'll have frybread (Navajo tacos) and the like.  It'll be nostalgic for me, having lived on the Rez for 8 years.  
Their little athlete has recently gotten into baseball, so I'm bringing my mitt with me and pitch to him (probably until my arm falls off).

Good times.

I wish I could get everyone down here for a visit like that. So far there has not been any interest. Neither of my brothers have even bothered to try and get here in the almost 4 years we've been down.

Of course, it would not be good if it had happened this time.. so...

I doubt we do anything special here.  It's my favorite holiday as well.