What is your typical Thanksgiving Day like in your family? Do you have lots of family and friends around you to share the holidays? Well growing up I had twenty one cousins on each side but only my dad’s side of the family celebrated holidays. My mom’s family was Jehovah Witness’ (not my mom). So holidays for us were always very easy. We always went to my Maw and Papap’s for every holiday (my dad’s parents). All of my cousins and aunts and uncles went there too. I miss that sometimes now because my grandparents have both passed away so our once so large family has now kinda split up and we now spend it with our immediate family, my parents, my brother and his family and my husband and three sons. I wish everyone would still get together but I think my grandparents were the glue that held us all together so now my dad’s brothers and sisters spend the holidays with their children and grandchildren. But I really enjoy having a lot of family over at Thanksgiving and Christmas. We all play games and have fun and I don’t want my kids to miss out on the kind of fun I had growing up. So this year I am hosting Thanksgiving dinner at our home and we are having my family and my youngest son’s godparents and their kids over as well. So that alone is about sixteen people. I have also invited my husbands family which is another eight people but according to my husband they probably won;t bother coming because they don’t like big family events. They prefer to sit and eat with little to no family there at all. Which can cause a bit of a family friction in our home because I was raised in a large family and when we were dating way back when he shared with me that he and his family were also very close and he enjoyed large family events. Which is now so not the case. So I still invite his family to every event we have but they rarely show up ever. I have finally decided that my kids are more important to me and I want them raised around all their cousins and family the way I was raised and if his family doesn’t want to be included then that is on them. All I can do is try to include them but the showing up is up to them.
So what are your family holiday dinners like? Share with us your fun family traditions.
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