I Made it through Thanksgiving!

My family describes my reaction to things as "making an elephant out of it". I get all obsessive too. It has been ages since they all gathered at my place. Due to circumstances that is how it is. In a way it it would be nice for me to have to do it as it would motivate me to clean and organize more.

It is very nice for you to have thanks giving . AT the very least you have it in your country . We don't have thanks giving to where I am from . But I am thankful everyday, so I make everyday my thanks giving.

I am glad you enjoyed it. It is always at my home also. My son is in a wheelchair, and our house is the most accessible. I have two adult children living with me, and I made them clean up their things, even though when they were done, I still had some of it to do. You would think that they would pitch in, but that is just not going to happen unless you push it.

I am also a hermit, or perhaps a loner, and have reach the stage in my life when I let someone else cook the turkey. I have cooked many Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners so now I enjoy getting invited to enjoy a relaxed dinner at someone else's home.

That is progress and know its not easy to deal with a lot of people in the house. Its hard to deal with house cleaning and its one thing my entire family really doesn't like to do at any time. Wish my family had a member that enjoyed cleaning!

Congratulations!Happy holidays!I also like to live alone,if in normal times,I prefer to be at home,reading a book,get to the internet,do some things of i like to do. But,in the festival, and many friends together,and that is very happy.

I'm not so much a hermit as just not that into Thanksgiving any more. Why? Well, November isn't a good month for me. None the less, I ended up having "Thanksgiving" 3 times. None of them were at my house and all were pretty calm. The only stress was that I had gotten a phone call on Sunday and Maggiepie had taken a turn for the worse overnight and was in ICU again, so the Sunday get together could've been better, but not because the food or the other people were bad. I'm not really ready for Christmas, but at least I'm past the worst of November now.

I am ok with being a bit of a hermit myself, but lately nobody is leaving me alone. I don't really freak out, but just would rather be by myself more. But I am playing lots of sports in my retirement and that requires other people, sort of...

It's funny how we change as we get older. When we were first married our house was full of people every weekend and I didn't mind feeding a bunch of young people from my church who liked to hang out at our house. Seems we were hardly ever alone. The big holiday meals were usually at Mom's so I didn't have too many turkey years, but now the very thought of cleaning up the house and cooking a turkey freaks me out. It would be different, maybe, if I had somewhere to put all this stuff and unfinished projects. I'm also becoming much more of a hermit, and the less I go out, the less I want to. I had to make myself go shopping for food today and on my photo walk. I enjoyed it, but only the threat of not having food in the house if I didn't shop made me go out. I don't know if this is typical of aging or if this is what I really am at the core and I'm finally realizing it. Sounds like you got through the day much better than expected.