Thanksgiving in T minus 2 days

I've never been a big Thanksgiving fan. It's just not a holiday I really feel any connection to. The traditions include killing hundreds of thousands of turkeys and pigs and cooking for numerous members of your family. Since I don't eat turkey or pig and don't condone the killing of any animal, this holiday seems just stupid to me. I understand it's about giving thanks for everything you have but I feel that every other day of the year is just as important for this cause. And since I've pretty much always been far away from my family during the holidays, the numerous family members getting together at one time thing is a moot point. So, usually for this "holiday" I have always either been working or hanging out at the house. There have been some Thanksgivings where I would spend them at my dad's house, or with friends, or, like last year, in Michigan with my relatives, but these are fairly rare occurrences. And I have never spent a Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Valentine's Day with my husband! This just emphasizes how unimportant this holiday has been to me in my past.



This year, Mike and I are going to be cooking up a big vegetarian feast for the two of us to share. We will definitely have leftovers to go through for at least a week, but, since I enjoy cooking and making a spread of food and don't get to very often, we are going full force. We've spent about $200 in total for groceries for the week. I'm going to make one more trip to Whole Foods here in a few minutes to try and get a couple more things and then I plan to come home and start cooking. I'm going to prepare the cranberry and orange sauce tonight and I may start the prep work for the brie cheese in the puff pastry and the butternut squash ravioli. Then tomorrow I'll start prepping the eggnog and make the pumpkin roll. Everything else will need to be prepared and finished on Thanksgiving day. I figure I won't even eat breakfast since we'll have so much food to eat for lunch/dinner/dessert.

So, have a Happy Thanksgiving where ever you may be. Hopefully one day this day can be celebrated every other day of the year as well minus the killing animals part.