Hey, me!! I have the world's most spoiled chickens.

Exactly. If wishes were horses....

I might sound heartless here but not learning how to deal with failure is what's wrong with a lot of kids today. Tell him to straighten up and deal with it. 13 is too old to be acting this way, sensitive or not. If you fail then you work harder. End of story.

Love, love, love it!

I was going to order Amazon gift cards for all the kids until I saw the reviews. They are awful. What the heck? They don't even tell you how much money they are for?

You need to send me the address and time.

Turkey and dressing, smoked pork loin, potatoes and sweet potatoes, corn casserole and green beans. Gravy. Apple salad. Homemade bread, Pumpkin, pecan, apple and cherry pies. Wine. Mimosas. This year no Hawaiian rolls, rice or peas. I'd love to have hoppin' John but no. Trying to stay sane this year.

Ditto. I'd love a puppy but I promised my cat I wouldn't. We do have a dog but she's Not My Dog. I need a new vacuum but I don't think I can wait til Christmas. Now if it's just something I want? A Clinton Anderson signature horse. They start at about $25,000. Ain't happening. ETA- just went to the CA site to drool and I'm wrong. They are $30,000. Definitely ain't happening.

My parents (divorced), two brothers and one sister live in the same town. Other sister and I live eight and eleven hours away. Sister W, who is the one that lives nearer to me has always gone back down to Alabama for Thanksgiving to see everyone and to watch THE football game. We don't leave the ranch in the winter time, too much work and besides we always had five kids to think of. This year she is coming here to us. There is too much drama with our family. Brothers both wanted to take their families to spend with their children's inlaws at their family retreats, one on a river and the other on a 5000 acre "hobby farm". Then they changed their minds and offered to do Thanksgiving at one brother's house so mom would have somewhere to go, along with sister W. Dad, who usually has to go with his wife to her family wasn't an issue. BUT for some reason he is not going with her this year so that left him out. Thanksgivings with my mom and dad haven't happened for 30 years. So now after all this crap mom is going out of state with her boyfriend who isn't her boyfriend, dad will be at brothers house and my sils are probably pissed that they both passed up luxurious Thanksgiving meals where they had to do nothing so they could host for family members who decided not to come at all. I will never understand why every year it's a big deal as to what, why, when, how and whatever they are going to do. Just freaking do it or not. Here we are doing Thanksgiving on the day with everyone here except one set of marrieds who are going to an inlaw grandma's for lunch then coming by our house later. We always host because we have the biggest house and the grandkids love to run wild on the ranch. I tell my kids if they have to be somewhere else then go and don't worry. I get to see them all the time and I don't want other parents and grandparents to miss chances on the holidays. That said it's going to be maybe dramatic for me this Thanksgiving because usually I control All The Food. I like certain dishes done my way and always overdo the number of veggie dishes and two kinds of meat. Four kinds of pie. This year I'm letting go. Sil, sister, daughters and dils are all preparing something. Aside from refusing to let sil bring her dressing I'm throwing my hands up in the air.

I think it's rude. Yeah, there might be other more important things to wad my panties over but what the hell? I've got time.

When we were building some women I knew only by name went through my house. Pissed me off. ETA- my feeling on the whole matter was if they couldn't welcome me into their very small town community then they didn't have any damn business poking through my house, completed or not.

I had no carbs the first two days and then less than 30 on the third day. I'm not hungry, just craving. But my blood sugar is low (for me) so that's good.

My adult son is on what he calls the Keto diet, but I think it's his own version. He eats no carbs or sugar. After a blood sugar problem he convinced me to try it. If I have to go any longer without carbs I'm going to become violent. Who does this?

Get him another dog. This time go to the pound. Give him updates on original dog but don't visit. Eventually phase the updates out. He'll focus on the new dog. Dog, not puppy.

Ask him if his ass needs an emotional connection with your foot. Preferably while wearing steel toe boots.

Done.

My grandkids have toys out the wazoo so I'm thinking about getting them clothes for Christmas. Three oldest are girls that love clothes and two youngest are too little to care. I found some London Fog coats for kids but I'm not settled yet. What are your favorite brands or stores? Ages 7 to 1.

My grownup kids had an epic game of good old Monopoly last night.

No.

Yep. I always host Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have the biggest family and the most room so family singles and such just come here.

Alabama doesn't count either. My grandma would say "I never heard of such of thing in all my born days!"

Our local meat processing place smokes a bunch every year. They are a meat locker that butchers and dresses deer, cattle and chickens. Around the holidays they smoke turkeys, chickens, briskets and other yummy stuff. It's delicious and way better than anything I could every make. I order their biggest two and they run about $50 each. Well worth it, especially if you've ever eaten a turkey I cooked myself.

this Thanksgiving if my sil says she is going to bring her dressing. There is no way I'm going to serve that mushy, sluicey, gooey goop this year. Last year son in law could barely stand the smell of it on the table. It's nasty, got oysters in it. Her mother made it too. Enough years of this. It reminds me of cat hairballs. "No, thanks but someone has already asked to make the dressing this year." I guess it won't really be a lie because I'm asking to make it myself!!!

I cheat every year and buy two already smoked turkeys. This year I'm having 14 adults and 5 children. Frees up my oven for casseroles.

We use a broker. I'm done with this crap.