Thanksgiving For Two?

We are actually going away today until sunday into the poconos for our honeymoon. Usually we spend time with family and it feels odd not to, but also it feels relaxing to get the one on one time we need without the extra stress of everyday life. I hope you two do something new and fun!

My fiance and I are spending Thanksgiving with just the two of us! We plan on watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (it's my fiance's tradition to watch the Charlie Brown movies around holidays) as well as a few other movies, cooking a big meal together, working on a puzzle together, and this weekend, we'll also switch out our fall decorations for Christmas ones (we both insist on waiting until after Thanksgiving before bringing out the Christmas stuff).


We've had to spend a couple holidays in the past with just us two before (both of our families live hours away and timing doesn't always work out for us to go to them for the holidays). What we find helps is to plan out activities that we can do together: cooking/baking, movie marathons, board/card games, working on a scrapbook, going for hikes if the weather is nice, and being intentional about spending the time with each other. I recommend planning out a few activities for each day - either new ones, or ones you already know you both enjoy. Also try to video chat with family and friends!

I'm sorry but I can imagine that during this time Healthcare is just crazy. Honestly both my parents are deceased and my husband's family don't live in the area so it's kind of just been us to for the past five years. It's actually pretty nice usually what I do but I'm going to postpone until Christmas this year cuz we just got back from our honeymoon and ate a lot I used to take to make enough dinner for the both of us so now we have our dog we give her a little bit too and he basically watches the football games all day and then we can have a nice dinner together and we just spend time watching some movies or something like that. You could kind of see it as a little romantic holiday meal with your wife. Can you maybe do a little Black Friday shopping with some of your family?

We are spending it at a beach house. Just my fiancé and I. We are also big on family but since we both have high risk parents and grandparents we did not want to selfishly spend thanksgiving with them. We thought we would be too sad to be at home so we rented a place at the beach (very spur of the moment) to at least be there for the weekend. We both also love the beach so it’s helpful

We’re going skiing

We are only going to my parents house and not his family’s house this year... We plan on zooming with them all for a little bit and just sharing what we had to eat and what we are thankful for. This holiday, for obvious reasons, isn’t much for us to celebrate, but I will have a hard time come Christmas.

My husband and I are spending Thanksgiving alone. We live in a different state from both families. His family isn't doing anything, but my family is. However, my husband's work has a travel ban and the state my family lives in require people to have a Covid test 72 hours prior or quarantine for 14 days. It has really put a damper on the holidays. We were supposed to have our baby reveal at my parents' house Dec. 12, but that likely isn't going to happen. I was planning on putting up our Christmas tree on Thanksgiving, but my husband let me put it up early. Every year for Christmas we make a gingerbread house. Normally, we do this a week or two prior to Christmas, but I think this year we will do it on Christmas. We are also having a Friendsmas on Dec. 20 with two of our close friends that live near us.

Yes! Both of our families usually have large gatherings for Thanksgiving, but this year everyone agreed that it was too risky and would be selfish of us to have everyone get together. My fiancé has his son for Thanksgiving this year, so it will just be the 3 of us. FH ordered $450 worth of groceries so that we could do a full on Thanksgiving meal! I about killed him when I saw it! LOL He has never made a Thanksgiving meal in his life, and really didn’t think out the logistics of it – such as the fact that we only have 1 oven and a 20 pound turkey plus 4 other dishes that need to be cooked in the it 🤦🏼‍♀️ Plus 3 other dishes that will need to be cooked stove top. I was going to voice my concern, but he had already bought everything, and part of me wants to watch the disaster of him trying to accomplish all this 😂😂 Aside from cooking a monstrous meal for just 3 people, i’m sure we will have a football game on. Our team is not playing, so it will probably just be for ambience while we cook. My fiancé’s son really wants to paint all over his walls. We knew that would be a disaster, so I got him glow in the dark/UV reactive paint that cannot be seen until you turn off the light or put a UV light on it. He is going to be so excited! So, after we recover from our food coma, we are going to paint his room with him. Then we will probably do a family movie night. This will be my first Thanksgiving not with lots of family. At first I was kind of bummed, but now I’m pretty excited to cook with the future hubs. My mom, SIL and I do Black Friday shopping every single year (we start Thursday evening and go all night into the next afternoon!) so not being able to do that is super disappointing. But I do plan to stay up late doing some black Friday shopping Thursday night/Friday morning.

We normally spend Thanksgiving going between both of our families, although last year we actually had his parents and aunt, uncle, and cousins come to my parents house. We obviously aren't doing that again. My parents don't believe the virus is a big deal and are still having a bunch of people over and they are expecting us to come. I feel awful doing it, but we are both going to say that we're both feeling under the weather and can't come over. We're going to have dinner with just his parents. We have been seeing them, but they are taking it seriously and don't go out much and neither do we. So while there is some risk, it's a lot less. They're the only people we've seen throughout this pandemic. However, my mom works in NYC and refuses to wear her mask unless she's on the commuter bus because you're required too (and she's 1 of those people who purposefully doesn't have the mask cover her nose). It's also ridiculous because my dad has significant health issues and is incredibly high risk. I know that my mom wouldn't take me being uncomfortable as an acceptable reason, and I feel terrible lying to her, but I know it's the only way to possibly get her to be ok with us not being there.

Just the two of us as well, and definitely a first for Thanksgiving. Even though my in-laws live in the same city as us, we didn't feel it was safe to having Thanksgiving dinner with them because Covid numbers are rapidly rising in our city and it's freezing outside this week so outdoors is not an option. So, my husband and I are taking this opportunity to finally test out that large roasting pan we received from our wedding registry!

Yes! I am actually happy and excited to celebrate just the two of us. We plan to make a small meal and maybe watch a holiday movie (not sure which one yet). Normally we would also take this time immediately after thanksgiving to set up the tree and put up xmas decorations.

Yep! Just the two of us this year. My mom works at a hospital and will be working on Thanksgiving Day and my husband’s family will only have a handful of people instead of the usual 50+. Since we can’t guarantee the lifestyle those individuals have been living (I’m a teacher who has both in person and virtual students and don’t want to risk bringing anything into my classroom), we’re having our very first solo holiday. I’m a bit bummed because cooking a giant spread on Thanksgiving is my favorite, but I’m looking at the silver lining of fewer dishes to clean. The one new thing we did try for it this year was roasting our own pumpkins to make homemade pumpkin purée. I’m excited to see the difference (if any) in the pumpkin pie!

Yep! Just the two of us. We are planning to play games remotely with family. I’m looking forward to it!

We aren’t spending Thanksgiving alone because we just lost my grandfather and don’t want my grandmother to be alone, however we did have an Easter that we spent alone. Of course it might be different temperatures now depending on where you live but what we did was have a nice meal together and then let the food settle and went for a hike. It was actually really relaxing and wonderful to just spend those quiet moments with him, although we did miss family.

Same boat as you! Just us 2- it’s been that way for the past couple of years. He works the next day (he’s a firefighter) & I work at the hospital. I’m off but really don’t feel like fighting the traffic for 2.5 hours to see family. I have all the fixings for our prime rib dinner. Just gonna chill at home, watching football- just the 2 of us!

My ILs usually have a huge thing.

DH is working tomorrow, so we'll likely zoom with our parents, and we are tentatively planning an *immediate family already in bubble only* thing for Sunday.

In which all the windows will be open. ...In NYC. (Brrr. I'll wear all my warm things.) It would be a maximum 6 people with a dog.

But, this all depends on what the data looks like.

So, tomorrow, DH is going to make my favorite pasta dish (pasta and peppers, with the peppers cooked up in oil and garlic), we also still have some leftover pizza from my old job (best pizza in NY, but in NJ), I think we have some garlic bread in the freezer, and I made chocolate pecan pie on Monday.

The real question is... can I get up early enough to watch the parade?

(Doubtful.)

I don’t live in America but to be honest I sure as hell hope people are just spending Thanksgiving with their SOs this year because of COVID-19! The US Government’s response to COVID-19 has been utterly appalling and from flight data I looked at yesterday, there were THOUSANDS of flights across the US as people travelled for Thanksgiving.

I sense a big COVID-19 outbreak coming up. Three cheers for all of you who have been/are practicing COVID safe measures 😊

We usually visit parents and grandparents for thanksgiving but this year I am cooking. My sister & her kids, and my mom&stepdad will be over. Since my mom babysits my kids and my niece and nephew we literally are around each other everyday, so that's what we're celebrating thanksgiving together still.


My husband and I did decide that because of Covid we won't be around anyone else or invite anyone else to our house that we haven't been around on a daily basis.