I actually have always volunteered at a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving... the one that I always volunteered at burned to the ground last Spring and in true form, my snooty town has been battling the organization about rebuilding... lots of "not in my neighborhood" nonsense... So, for now, there's no local shelter/soup kitchen which is just awful... I could look in other cities though. However, my experience is that there's tons of people volunteering at the holidays and less during the rest of the year so I am inclined to do something with my girls on Thanksgiving and stick with volunteering during the rest of the year....
I'm going to see if my bff and her family want to come to my house for a meal and the kids can play together and I am actually feeling pretty relieved about this all-- just talking about this on here helped a ton. Thank you all so much!