Had to laugh (painfully) at Chezmiscarriage's holiday headaches. For the past several years I usually get "call my sister" from G. That is, call his sister to let her know when we'll be at her house. In other words, everything revolves around what I decide. That's the only time this is really true, when there are hurt feelings enough for 2 families. Most years since G. stopped having to work on Thanksgiving, we have 2 dinners, the first with my family and the second with his. Actually, there was one year when we just ate with his family. I didn't mind, except no one acknowledged it, they just accepted it as fine. And there's never any discussion about not spending a holiday with his family. I've never understood why we have to go to their house at Easter. Easter is not a secular holiday. They don't go to church. G's nephew is now too old for the Easter bunny. I can understand the secularization of Christmas, but not Easter. Enough, I'm not going into that right now, it's Thanksgiving. I know the best solution would be having Thanksgiving at our house. I used to say every year that we'd have it at our house, hence only 1 dinner! I've decided that cooking most of it myself would be easier than hauling stuff around (although his sister never seems to really want me to bring anything) and having to have 2 holidays in one day. However, we don't have can't see my old dining room table, which is covered with G's business stuff, can only hold 6 anyway, and that's a tight squeeze. I planned to buy a dining room set, and was nearly ready to do it a couple of years ago, but G always acts like our eating area is too small. It is large enough, however, to hold our small table, his gun safe, his plants, many of his tools, an old sewing maching we keep for decoration that he's pushed up to the window so the cats will have a window seat, and other sundry items of his. OK, when we win the lottery tonight, I'm buying a dining room set, whether he likes it or not. Thanksgiving will be fine. I must not take second helpings of anything, though. Now moving on to...