Is it too early for a Tday vent thread?

We are traveling to deep east Texas to meet all of my family. I am dreading it, to be honest. But the host of Thanksgiving is my (deceased) mom's life long best friend, and I cannot wait to see her. Its some of my blood relatives that I am actually dreading.

We don’t have Thanksgiving with extended family. It’s better that way.

My complaint is DH wants oyster mushrooms, and only oyster mushrooms, for his stuffing recipe and they are not at any of the four stores I went to. I’m not sure where else to look.

Just me, dh, and my sister this year. My dd lives the closest to us (about 3-4 hours away) but it's such a short amount of time for driving in holiday traffic. And she'll be here for Christmas. Plus, I'm not a fan of Thanksgiving. lol. 

Also, I do not like turkey. And around here there are never small turkeys, and it's silly to cook a huge turkey with tons of leftovers when I don't even like it! lol. So this year I bought Cornish game hens from Costco. I'll cook three of them, one for each of us, plus stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, roasted carrots (to put some color on the plates), cranberry sauce, and pie. The stuffing is boxed (from Costco), the mashed potatoes are the dehydrated kind that I mix with water, the gravy is Kevin's (from Costco), and the pie will be that huge pumpkin pie from Costco. 

I will actually roast the hens myself, and also roast the carrots. That is the extent of my actual cooking. Have I ever mentioned that I hate to cook?

Well…I have covid at the moment, but we’re supposed to have what could be our last Thanksgiving meal at my parent’s house before my dad needs to go to a memory care facility. We’re not sure if/when that might happen, but I don’t want to miss anything.
We are also supposed to have my DH’s annual whiskey tasting party on Black Friday. We just have to cross our fingers that he doesn’t come down with it, and that my symptoms disappear by this Saturday.

Thankful that my older kids are both here this year for Thanksgiving - it'll be the five of us.

I always want to host Thanksgiving dinner but rarely get the chance. Usually I go to my son’s house, or my brother’s or sister’s, depending on who all is in town and hosting. Wherever I go, I’m in charge of making the gravy, because I inherited that skill from my mom and apparently no one else did.

BUT THIS YEAR … my son’s family will be on a cruise. My daughter lives 5 hours away and doesn’t come home for Thanksgiving. Everyone in my family is going to my brother’s house. Except me. I was invited to my gentleman friend’s home for Thanksgiving with his kids and his brother, and I am being a rebel and just doing it. Will bring the mashed potatoes (REAL ONES, monklady123 … shame on you) and will also make the gravy if they want me to. I made it last month when he roasted a practice turkey (came out of my freezer and I was grateful to see it gone).

I will see the rest of them at Christmas. Unless it’s someone else’s turn to rebel.

We typically travel during Thanksgiving because ds always had the whole week off. Now he has a job, so he won't have much time off, but he is coming home! We will go to mil after a couple of days in San Francisco. I'm liking the idea that librarylady posted about getting dinner from a restaurant. I think I will call around. If that plan fails, I will cook something that isn't turkey, because I don't like it and others are indifferent, but I will make all of the usual sides.

We are hosting dh’s sister, her husband and 3 kids. 9 of us this year and our first in our new house. I can’t wait.

We're hosting Thanksgiving dinner for my extended family. We are expecting 30 - 35 people. We've been hosting for the last 20 years, except for the three 'covid years' (2020-2022). My DH cooks the turkey, and I do the sides and appetizers. A couple of people being dishes.