My MIL ruined Thanksgiving for me by saying (via a 3rd party) that my parents, visiting from the UK, shouldn't come over for TG as "they're not family". Stuff that, we had it by ourselves at our house, me, hubby, daughter and my parents.
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My MIL ruined Thanksgiving for me by saying (via a 3rd party) that my parents, visiting from the UK, shouldn't come over for TG as "they're not family". Stuff that, we had it by ourselves at our house, me, hubby, daughter and my parents.
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Good to know Emily!We had no problem getting a turkey for our Thanksgiving open house last year
That stinks Marion, family can be so....unpredictable. I hope it turn into a nice holiday.My MIL ruined Thanksgiving for me by saying (via a 3rd party) that my parents, visiting from the UK, shouldn't come over for TG as "they're not family"
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^^ Yep sure did Ana! All the better for not having to see the old trout.
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Thanksgiving sounds fun, all that food drools. I understand thanksgiving is about the Native Americans helping the Pilgrims but has it's message been lost, like Christmas?
In Scotland we celebrate Burns Night with haggis, whiskey and bad poetry
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Ouch... Not that Thanksgiving is involved for us Brits, but I feel for you as my m-i-l for most of the 40 years I've been around hasn't actually considered me as officially belonging! We're very lucky in my Kiwi d-i-l's parents, aunts and sisters, who've automatically included us in everything going on during our visits to NZ, refusing to be thanked by saying, 'You're family.'Originally Posted by M-Squared
My MIL ruined Thanksgiving for me by saying (via a 3rd party) that my parents, visiting from the UK, shouldn't come over for TG as "they're not family". Stuff that, we had it by ourselves at our house, me, hubby, daughter and my parents.
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Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday
its all the food, warmth, family, celebration, tradition, time to reflect and feel thankful
..without the stress of gifts and commercialism that xmas packs
I was thinking maybe we'd have to raise a few turkeys in nz eventually
:-)
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Yes to some extent the original message has been lost, especially in the sense of thinking of Native Americans, or First Nations as we call them in Canada, as the original inhabitants of the land., who took in the settlers and welcomed and fed them.Thanksgiving sounds fun, all that food drools. I understand thanksgiving is about the Native Americans helping the Pilgrims but has it's message been lost, like Christmas?
In Scotland we celebrate Burns Night with haggis, whiskey and bad poetry
(This concept is much more acknowledged in NZ where Maori have "Tangata Whenua" status--People of the Land)
However Thanksgiving meets its message about giving thanks, because people always do feel kind of special on Thanksgiving, when all the family gathers, and the food is so scrumptious and abundant--its impossible not to think about how lucky we all area. It really is a wonderful occassion, in some ways I like it better than Christmas.
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Yea I agree! It's nice when a holiday changes with the times but still has a nice message.
I love Halloween too but here in the States it's gotten a bit OTT. Michael's had all their Halloween merchandise up in early August; kinda ruins the magic for meLet's not even broach the Christmas commercialism!
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OK .. that's something else I miss. I dont care who makes them, i dont care if it says Kraft .. but I would really like to have access to bags of WHITE mini marshmallows. I have a wonderful desert recipe that needs them and it just isnt the same with pink marshmallows. they clash.
I once spent an hour cutting up the big ones but that's sooo not going to happen again.
Everyone here treats them like candy and thus they sell for 8x the price in smaaaallll bags
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There are lots of turkeys here! Wild .. running around in the hills. Honest!
We jsut need to work out how best to harvest them for the expat community
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