I always cook our TG Day meal, as my wife is from Japan and didn’t learn our food growing up. It’ll be Chicken this year as it will be the first Thanksgiving without one of my daughters - so just 3 of us.
My younger daughter is attending an Osaka Art School for a college exchange semester.
My older daughter will be returning home after her first 6 months of “real” employment following her college graduation in May. I’m looking forward to the stories of her trials and tribulations.
She’s already told me on the phone: “Dad, now I understand what you were talking about all those times - the hard work, the frustration, the idiots, no one at home understanding ... nothing like the easy stuff I dealt with at the grocery store and fast food place.”
I’m still going to catch hell from mom and my siblings for not being “home”, but I just started a new job and can’t swing the 8 hour drive.
Dude! they have smaller Turkeys!