Post by rebeccca01 on Nov 9, 2016 20:29:21 GMT -5
what would you prefer? 
All of our immediate family, which is 5 couples, a 5 year old and 3 grandbabies (12 mo, 7 mo and 2 mo) will be together for Thanksgiving at our son's home (the parents of the 2 month old). They have a new home which no one has yet been to, (other than us) and invited the entire clan down to meet their new son and visit their new home.
Since 3 of the couples have very young children, we are debating whether to cook Thanksgiving dinner ourselves or buy a prepared Thanksgiving dinner.
I noticed that the prepared dinner included no veggies at all (besides potatoes) so we'd still likely have to make some veggies, and make desserts.
Extra deets (lol): We will likely all be taking turns making meals the other nights, Weds, Friday and Saturday, so there will be plenty of cooking going on those nights.
One person who's done the 'bought' Thanksgiving dinner told me she loved it, but there is lots of heating up to do, more than you'd think to get everything hot at the same time.
Thanks for your impressions/opinions.
Of course the hostess will make the final call, but she's asking us our opinions. Maybe calmness and relaxed visiting trumps all the work that goes into Thanksgiving, especially with 3 babies to care for? (we are blessed!)
All of our immediate family, which is 5 couples, a 5 year old and 3 grandbabies (12 mo, 7 mo and 2 mo) will be together for Thanksgiving at our son's home (the parents of the 2 month old). They have a new home which no one has yet been to, (other than us) and invited the entire clan down to meet their new son and visit their new home.
Since 3 of the couples have very young children, we are debating whether to cook Thanksgiving dinner ourselves or buy a prepared Thanksgiving dinner.
I noticed that the prepared dinner included no veggies at all (besides potatoes) so we'd still likely have to make some veggies, and make desserts.
Extra deets (lol): We will likely all be taking turns making meals the other nights, Weds, Friday and Saturday, so there will be plenty of cooking going on those nights.
One person who's done the 'bought' Thanksgiving dinner told me she loved it, but there is lots of heating up to do, more than you'd think to get everything hot at the same time.
Thanks for your impressions/opinions.
Of course the hostess will make the final call, but she's asking us our opinions. Maybe calmness and relaxed visiting trumps all the work that goes into Thanksgiving, especially with 3 babies to care for? (we are blessed!)
