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We've been doing Thanksgiving with friends for about 9 years. Since I no longer speak to my relatives who live in the area, that's it. My son who lives here is always included, even if we are going to our friends' house. In fact Thanksgiving is one of the reasons we stopped seeing my relatives. The one year my exchange student was living with us and I really wanted to have a traditional Thanksgiving, we went to my aunt's house. My cousin had to have Kosher food, which was all bought and prepared, not home cooked, and we had to eat on paper plates, since my aunt's home is not Kosher. The food sucked and and it was pretty much the worst Thanksgiving I've had. Thankfully, Richard came to visit us for Thanksgiving in 2007, so he got the real deal.
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My parents are long gone and the spouse and I have no kids. But for years we have joined with my siblings and maybe some cousins for thanksgiving. We are not this year as we are back down in Iowa on the first state of going south.
I miss them.
We are making chicken soup with dumplings. We cooked the chicken in the slow cooker all night long. Now it is cooling and in a few hours I"ll debone it. My spouse has a friend here in town who just got out of the hospital. We will bring him soup, visit for a short bit, and go home.
