How many have a spouse or themselves that has to work the Friday after Thanksgiving?

[KCT]

Not allowed to work this weekend . . . I home teach for the county, and if schools are closed I’m not allowed to work. Even if my student and I wanted to meet, I wouldn’t get paid! —KCT

 

[Peace-bwu]

**Mine is working like usual today. **
And Chirstmas/New Years didn’t fall on Sundays, he’d have to work then too.

Why is it that Americans work so hard, but don’t have near the time off of so many of our fellow industrialized nations? Production is just as high in those nations. Americans need siestas and holidays too. Don’t we?

My dh has 4 weeks of vacation time left in this year and, like last year, it’s going to roll over to be unused next year. He never gets approved for time off it seems unless he threatens to use FMLA paternity leave when I have a baby - then he gets a week off.

I hear it’s like this everywhere in america these days??

sigh I miss my hubby today.

My husband left for a mission to Iraq on the 21st and is still gone. I missed him like crazy on Thanksgiving, but held it together. The kids and I had a roaster chicken instead of a Turkey. I allowed myself to cut corners wherever I could, so that I could try to focus on enjoying them rather than being stressed about cooking and being away from my husband… but I have had ten years of practice at this! I’m not sure when he will be home… any day now! I can’t allow myself to wallow in self pity and whine because he was taking a plane full of supplies to America’s military, many of whom will be deployed for the entire Christmas and Holiday season, from the first day of school till after New Years Day.

The Job of Protecting America’s safety and Freedom doesn’t stop for a holiday. It’s a reminder for me to Count our Blessings! There are many American’s sacrificing Thanksgiving and Christmas without their families, so that we can enjoy our freedoms and safety, including the right to Thank God from whom all blessings flow, and Celebrate the coming of Christ.

Military families learn quickly to be thankful for every moment of time we have together, and for any holiday that they are actually home for! If your husband came home at night, hug him tight and be thankful he isn’t sleeping in a war torn desert. Any time I start to feel bad I just think of the wives (or husbands) of the people who are actually deployed in dangerous, miserable corners of the world.

I was Thankful to hear from him two days after Thanksgiving, and also thankful that his flight crew got together for a buffet of Sushi and Lebanese food in Kuwait, so that he didn’t have to be alone!

 

[LeslieE]

My husband was on vacation all week but I worked the day after Thanksgiving.

I am starting a new business so I work whenever I can get it. I was working the day after Thanksgiving.

To those whose loved ones were serving their country on Thanksgiving – Thank you for your sacrifice and that of your family!

 

[TableServant]

Boy, does this question hit home. I’m a deacon, and am always “on” on the holidays, so that isn’t as much of an issue. My wife, however, just graduated medical school in May, and is a new Family Practice doctor in Modesto, where we just moved (I still can’t believe, at times, that I picked up and moved from the town that I grew up in - all to be with her!).

So, as an intern - a first year resident - she was on call Thanksgiving (from 7:30 am Thursday morning, until 1:00 pm Friday), will be on call on Christmas day, and will be on call the day after New Year’s!!!

I almost feel lonely already!

 

[sparkle]

Mine did. But I am just so incredibly thankful that he has a job! And that he was off for Thanksgiving! Unemployment is so much worse than working long hours----believe me…been there done that…

We must be thankful ladies if we have hard-working men, and providers!!! It’s a real blessing!

 

[CatholicSam]

My first year working as an RN I was scheduled to work Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day. The only day I asked to have off out of the whole bunch was Christmas Day, and they didn’t even give me that. Eventually I jokingly complained to my wonderful nurse manager, and SHE worked Christmas Day in my place (but I had to keep it hush-hush)! I was so moved at her kindness When I got back to work after Christmas, everyone who worked said it was the most hectic day they’d seen in a long while, which made my manager’s sacrafice all the more meaningful.

Now my husband works in an office as an actuary and the company is closed for all the big holidays. Yay!