Thanksgiving is about family and tradition

Thanksgiving is fast approaching and I'm in that awkward period again of being asked where I'm going to spend my Thanksgiving. You know how it goes, you meet with people and somehow because the holiday is in the air, they inquire about your holiday plans. For me these our my clients who don't know much about me, yet they want to know how, where, and with whom I'm going to spend the holiday with. I know it's a rhetorical question, but somehow they expect you to let them in in your plans and give them a definite answer. Of course I wont be making this big deal if I have a definite answer, but I don't. I don't know how Kay and I are going to spend our Thanksgiving.

Well, we know how we want to spend it: with a large, sumptuous, baked turkey in front of us and with all the trimmings that goes with it. You really can't celebrate Thanksgiving without a turkey. It's tradition. It doesn't matter if noone in your family eat turkey, you need to have it served on your table on Thanksgiving dinner.

My coworker said that if Kay and I have no plans then we're invited to her Thankgiving dinner. So I asked her if she's going to cook the turkey herself. She said that all her guests are mostly Filipinos too and that Filipinos don't eat turkey that much. So I said, "I guess you'll be serving fried chicken, pancit and spaghetti with hotdogs." And we both laughed. (I know it really sounded crass, but she's a good friend.) Later on she said that she's thinking about making turkey after all.

Kay and I want to start our own tradition. We really want and wish that we could go to Ohio to spend this time with my Dad and my siblings. But for personal (and also financial) reasons, it's just not that easy to hop on a plane and go there. So we'll probably spend it with each other, bake our turkey, and be thankful for all the blessings we received this past year.

Of course we can also spend it with our relatives in San Diego. But we didn't get an invitation yet (Kuya Ron, I know you're reading...nudge-nudge,wiink-wink) so we just don't want to show up (Although I'm already known for doing that.) Of course it's always fun to spend the holidays in San Diego! I don't often verbally thank them for their support, but I can't imagine surviving in the US without their help. They opened their house for me and my brother when we were still fesh off the boat, ha-ha.
Except Kuya Ron has turned vegetarian on me so I might find a turkey-shaped tofu on their table Thanksgiving night. Somehow that just doesn't sound traditional. But hey, it's family.