Thanksgiving 2020 - What will be different and how to scrap it.

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This will be a very different Thanksgiving for us. Usually we have a huge family event, everyone comes over and it is happy chaos. This year, we are all keeping to our own bubbles. I don't think we have ever had a Thanksgiving like this.

We have configured our giant TV with a computer and a webcam and we are putting the table in front, so when we Zoom with Steven's household, it looks as though they are just down the other end of the table. We are going to try to take a family picture with us here and them on the TV.

We have ordered in from a local restaurant since a whole turkey for us folks is a little much. It also supports a small local restaurant, one we really care about.

But we plan on decorating and making it really festive. We will serve our meals on fine china. It will be a wonderful day with an adapted set of traditions. We will take as many pictures as we can :)
 
[FONT=&quot]Over the past couple of weeks we have been trying to decide how we would celebrate Thanksgiving due to the fact that in the state of Indiana and even more so in our county, Covid numbers have skyrocketed to the place the numbers are higher now than they have been since the start of this pandemic. It was decided that our parents (in their late 70s), would stay home and we would have Thanksgiving at our home with only our 2 sons, daughter-in-law and our 2 Grands and we would make the best of it with our small little family. We all live in the same town and see each other regularly so weren't worried about Covid between us. I told several friends how I was happy that at least Thanksgiving wouldn't be like Easter when we were in a complete lock down due to our Hunker Down Hoosiers order.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]However, things can change on a dime and I got a text Sunday afternoon from my daughter-in-law that she and my son weren't feeling great (and they have been SUPER careful!), and they were afraid it was Covid but it could be a number of other things too. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]
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[/FONT][FONT=&quot] So they went and got tested yesterday and if they are lucky they will have test results back late Wednesday, but most likely not until Friday OR later due to the holiday. So, there goes our Thanksgiving plans and I am just heartbroken. It was bad enough not to be able to be with our parents, but now not with my son, DIL and Grands either. So at this point our oldest son will still come over, so Thanksgiving will just be my husband, son and me, which is better that it just being the two of us, but I am still sad.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]We were with them early last week so don't know yet if we have anything to worry about so are being extra careful, but were already out and about last week not knowing that this was an issue. So, we are just praying that their tests will be negative, that if they have increase symptoms that they won't get too bad and that my husband, son and I will stay healthy.[/FONT]
 
I know what you mean. It will just be my husband, my mother and I this year and we are used to having so many more. We have our whole family and friends usually. There will be other years, though...
 
It's weird to say, but this Thanksgiving won't be too much different for us. Our family is pretty scattered, so we only have those big family gatherings every few years anyway. We usually travel, or Charles comes to stay with us and we have a small Thanksgiving together. We've been used to FaceTime Thanksgivings for years, LOL. We really don't even bother with that much anymore at this point, mostly now it's just calls or texts to check in. This year Charles chose to stay on campus and finish out the semester, but we'll get him in mid-December (and beyond that if his school doesn't reopen) So it's just the two of us. Whenever that happens I do all the cooking on Thanksgiving Eve, so we can sit in our PJ's and do nothing on Thanksgiving and just enjoy leftovers. I feel really bad for those families who are separated for the first time this year. Hopefully this time next year will look different, in a good way.

(I think I'll save this for journaling on a LO later, thanks for the idea, Lynnie)
 
My gathering will be small. My family and daughter's boyfriend, my sister and her husband, both of which have been over a lot since my father's passing, and a close high school friend of mine who has no family local. So it is 8 all together which is under the maximum limit of 10 imposed by our governor.
Happy Thanksgiving.
 
We always go to the lake house for Thanksgiving so that won’t change. Usually we have 1-3 out of town family members join us but we didn’t invite anyone this year. We will still cook our usual menu but plan to eat the leftovers for lunch through the weekend. The biggest difference is that during the time at the lake Dad and whoever is visiting spend a lot of time outside mulching around trees, prepping a big bonfire, and trimming really tall trees. This year he will be solo in these tasks except for the things I help him with. So I will probably spend a mix of time inside helping cook and outside helping with his list.
 
hclappy said:
It's weird to say, but this Thanksgiving won't be too much different for us. Our family is pretty scattered, so we only have those big family gatherings every few years anyway. We usually travel, or Charles comes to stay with us and we have a small Thanksgiving together. We've been used to FaceTime Thanksgivings for years, LOL. We really don't even bother with that much anymore at this point, mostly now it's just calls or texts to check in. This year Charles chose to stay on campus and finish out the semester, but we'll get him in mid-December (and beyond that if his school doesn't reopen) So it's just the two of us. Whenever that happens I do all the cooking on Thanksgiving Eve, so we can sit in our PJ's and do nothing on Thanksgiving and just enjoy leftovers. I feel really bad for those families who are separated for the first time this year. Hopefully this time next year will look different, in a good way.

(I think I'll save this for journaling on a LO later, thanks for the idea, Lynnie)
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Glad to be of service, Jen!
 
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