American audience (others just insert a Big Holiday?), you've spent the day with the inlaws. What are your holiday stories? Funny? Sad? Gross? Share these Thanksgiving stories with us as they unfold!

We didn’t go visit them but hubby calls his mother and reverts to baby talk. So do his brothers. Drives the wives crazy. And our kids laugh at us.

Our son and his wife in California called us from the car on the way to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving and told us that she is expecting. They have been trying for over a year.

This news especially ‘rocks the house’ since both our kids made us wait SO long to become grandparents. Our daughter and son-in-law in NY brought us the coolest infant on the planet in January, and now within 18 months we get to swoon over another little person on the West Coast.

Oh….our Thanksgiving meal was fantastic, although the turkey came out just a little overdone. Now ask me if I care….!!!

Actually, no. We had been planning for some time to go to Plymouth and enjoy the festivities as they reenact the first Thanksgiving. Our son has a sweetheart now and she’s working on her doctorate in Law in New York. So he wanted to either spend last weekend or Thanksgiving with us, and the alternate with her. We opted for the weekend prior to Thanksgiving, as it seemed there would be more to do. So he came over and spent the weekend here. But my wife came down with a nasty cold, and that weekend the weather wreaked havoc. We were afraid if we braved the cold and wind, she’s end up in the ER. So we stayed here and made a modest feast Sunday for dinner. Today is frigid again, so any thoughts of making it to Plymouth today were a non-starter, and we’d really like our son to be part of the excursion, as he hasn’t seen Plymouth either. Maybe next year.

My 30 year old son did thanksgiving dinner at my house this year. He took a lot of very complicated recipes off the internet. We went shopping on Monday and Wednesday, and he worked several hours doing pre-preparation. Then on Thursday, he come over and worked nearly all day, including two more trips to the store, and then while he was working, I made two trips to the store.

The dinner finally came together at around 7 o’clock, and just as we were sitting down, two more people walked in so we made room for them, and then about ½ hour later, another one came in, so we made room for him too. They were going to miss dinner because of work, but they were each given an hour off to join us.

We had a great discussion about women’s tatas and how gravity affects the different sizes

I haven’t got any.

We hosted our parents and my son. My father is deceased so it was just the 6 of us. We’re all pretty laid back and sarcastic, so it was a relaxing, fun, drama-free meal.

”....laid back and sarcastic”.

I like it. I like it a LOT….

@snowberry Baby Talk?? REALLY? That’s almost creepy. lol

Congrats, @OneBadApple! You’re bi-coastal, though. Frequent flyer miles??

Maybe next year, @ETpro. Look at it this way, after that Thanksgiving, Christmas has to be better!

Wow! @YARNLADY Is your son a professional chef? Sounds like great fun/quality time together if you helped. Thanksgiving full house is great. :)

lol @anniereborn. Fun for the young and old!

Being as how Americans were celebrating getting away from your country, it might seem inappropriate for you to celebrate with us, @ucme

@hearkat “relaxing, fun, drama-free meal” sounds like a wonderful Thanksgiving meal.

@ibstubro Yeah, the Mrs. has got us moving to New York in May so we’ll at least be near the little guy there. I will not fight her on this. He is the coolest, most well-behaved, happy infant you ever saw.

Assuming that all goes well in California, I highly recommend that you all buy as much JetBlue stock as you can, because we will single-handedly be driving their value up within the year…

@ibstubro Yep, the other wives think so too, but it’s never stopped her yet. But “Gramma” has always talked baby talk about family stuff (like the names little kids call things, etc.). Then to accommodate her, her sons say it right back to her. Yeech, it’s giving me the shivers!

Maybe you need to take a residence in Cali, too, @OneBadApple. lol

I haven’t got any in-laws is what I meant, my wife’s mother died when she was a kid & her dad some eight years ago now. Nowt to celebrate there then.

SHHHHhhhhh @ibstubro

She can think-up these terribly expensive ideas on her own without any help from the Central Time Zone….

@ibstubro My son is taking chef classes and loves to share his lessons.

She’ll come up with it, @OneBadApple

That’s Great, @YARNLADY. I considered that course at one time, but it’s too high stress and I was too high strung. I’ve been ordained a ‘chef’ before and been a kitchen manager. No thanks. I chuckle every time I hear someone say, ‘Some day I’d like to retire and open a little restaurant.”

That shut you up then, good stuff.

I’m in a small town, with limited opportunity. It’s a whole different ball park in the city, and/or if you’re young and willing to relocate. There isn’t what I personally would call a ‘fine dining’ restaurant within 100 miles.

I don’t know….I heard Arby’s is pretty good….