How many people are usually at your Thanksgiving?

Paul said
I miss the old days when I was a kid. We’d have large gatherings at my grandmother’s house in Uptown New Orleans every year, for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. We’d be at 40 people deep. Then, as years went by, older family members started passing away, marriages and divorces were happening, and the gatherings started to dwindle until we just stopped and everyone was kind of doing their own thing. I can’t even say that Katrina was the final nail because we’d stopped long before that - like 1997 I believe.
Now, we’re scattered around the country and rarely see each other, so my wife and I either travel to New Orleans to pull some family together or it’s just us and our two kids. This will be our 2nd Thanksgiving in Ohio and it will just be our little family.

What part of Ohio? My wife's family is from Ohio so we go occasionally.

Speaking of which, her Ohio ties have had a drastic effect on our Thanksgiving. Her family is accustom to a traditional non-Louisiana Thanksgiving. It's okay, but man it's not the same.

We've taken to travelling on Thanksgiving to AVOID hosting duties. Now that most of her immediate family has migrated to Atlanta, we usually get saddled with hosting which means my wife is cooking which means she's anxious about pleasing her mom which means she's going to be miserable which means by extension, I'm going to be miserable. So we've started going on vacation, because if we're home, we're hosting for about 12-15 people.

This year we're heading to Napoleonville. Haven't done that in at least 10 years if not more. My mom passed a way about 4 years ago so we're trying to see my dad when we can. Since mom died, he usually comes to stay with us in December through the New Year and again in April, but we've decided to go to him for Thanksgiving this year. It'll probably be my family of 4, my dad and older sister who live together, and some drop-ins from family in Napoleonville throughout the day but nothing formally arranged. So at one time anywhere from 6 to 15. What's cool about growing up in a small to...excuse me, village, is that at any one moment everyone can spontaneously end up at one house crowded on each other watching the game or a movie reciting the lines from heart. We'll see what happens this year.