We've had turkey at Christmas sometimes, but more often a beef or pork roast, depending on what we feel like. We do Christmas Eve at my house, just my family, so we have leeway to do what we want any given year without too much outside griping lol, and we like to mix things up. Sometimes we go Italian and do lasagne, bruschetta, italian soup, a fish; sometimes we do the Feast of the Seven Fishes, other years we've gone Slovak and had a buffet of halupki, kapustnica, pierogi, halushky, etc. We've even started with the oblatky and had the extra place setting. (although we go more traditional American with the desserts when we do Slovak - prune or poppy seed cookies just aren't my thing lol). And no carp in the bathtub lol. I do draw the line somewhere! When you grow up in such a multi-ethnic family as I did, it's nice to have so many traditions to draw on - and even to borrow from others that have nothing to do with you! Most people I think do have the Friday after Thanksgiving off. Obviously medical personnel, retail workers, etc, have to go to work but it seems to me most people have it off. But then many of us are back to work on Saturday! :) Dee

Happy Thanksgiving to my neighbours. Hope you all have a wonderful meal and time with loved ones.

We had a great day walking down the block to our friends house to have dinner and conversation with them and other friends of theirs! It was a great time for all! debra

I had an exhausting Thanksgiving day— early in the am DD called and was feeling terrible, went to urgent care and was diagnosed with strep— her second case in 30 days. They all had strep the very beginning of November, they all had Covid in the middle of the month and are now ending the month with another bout of strep. Of course they could not come, we did not want to be exposed (especially mother) and if DD has it at least one of the kids does too ☹️ So I cooked all the food and packed it in bakeware, made the rolls and sent a trunkload of food to them via DH while I stayed home cooking for the rest of us. We were only five for dinner but we had a great time nonetheless, and played cards afterward. The saying ”man proposes, God disposes” comes to mind.… We facetimed with the kids and I received a lovely text from our SIL thanking us for the dinner and telling is how thankful he is that we are his in-laws. Of course that made the day for me!