driving north to tallahassee to a huge family get-together. aunts, uncles, cousins, couslets(children of cousins), my parents, brother, sil and niece. our children and daughters fiance' are driving down from birmingham-it will take them about the same amount of time to head south as it does for us to drive north!

we have way too much food and after lunch, some of the more musically inclined gather outside and have a jam session while the little ones run around. half the family are seminoles and half are gators, so it is always an interesting weekend.

the following day we may go to an old fashioned cane grinding and syrup making in a nearby hamlet, if the family who usually hosts it is hosting it this year.

i love british shows and one of my favorites is a show from the '80's called The Vicar of Dibley. in one episode the poor vicar is invited to 4 different parishioners houses for christmas dinner, and so as not to offend anyone, she attends all 4. watch it if you can ks! very funny stuff!

I work from 5:00a.m - 9:00a.m. then after that, hanging out at home.

Picking up DS#1 from the airport on Wednesday morning for his first visit home since leaving for college. Thanksgiving dinner and overdosing on football on Thursday, and expect to have plenty of HS and college friends in and out of the house throughout the holiday. My husband grills the turkey and makes mashed potatoes, and I deal with the rest of the food. Grilled turkey is the best!

Heading home Tuesday for Thanksgiving dinner with the bf's dad and stepmom. Thursday is Thanksgiving lunch at my house with my family, aunt, and bf, and then Thanksgiving dinner with the bf's mom and stepdad. We shop on Fridays....usually starting around 4 am. And then Saturday is Thanksgiving dinner #4 and "Christmas" at my bf's step-grandparents' house. I am sooooo sick of Thanksgiving food by the end of it, but it is one of my favorite weeks of the year and I CANNOT wait!

If offered leftovers, don't refuse. Bring a cooler and keep it in your car lol.

We'll be at my dad's and his new(er) family. She can't cook, so I will be eating before I leave. On top of that, it's my bday, which he always forgets, even if he sees on that day (usually by accident). Yippee. Good times.

This Thanksgiving will be spent at my cousin's place. It will be particularly hard this year because I will be thinking about my Dad and the traditions we shared as a family for this holiday. He planned and cooked for the holiday. I love my relatives and all but their cooking could never compare to what my Dad could do.

To make the day even more interesting I'll be bringing the new Mr. Man with me.

My parents have been divorced for 17 years, so I'm used to having more than one Thanksgiving. My mom and step-dad are going up to Oregon or Washington (I have step-sibs in both states) for Thanksgiving. My dad is having dinner at his house on the day. I love setting up a game plan with him and starting early. My step-mom, sister, aunt, and uncle will also be there. Oh lord, probably my step-mom's sister and brother-in-law, too.

I have a group of friends that I worked at a summer camp with, and we all still keep in touch. We have a tradition of having a full Thanksgiving dinner the day before the real one. We call it "Turkey Bash." We get all dressed up and everyone brings something (including um, booze). We usually go to Pleasanton but this year it'll be at a girl's house right next to Santa Cruz. Woo hoo!

As of right now, working on my case study for school. If a better offer comes up, I'll take it, but it's not looking like one will.

DH and I are driving down on Thursday to visit my parents. Turkey with all the trimmings that night. Lunch at a local steakhouse on Friday. We're heading home on Saturday.

Saturday is my birthday, so DH and I will probably go out for dinner that night.

On Sunday, the in-laws are inflicting themselves on us. They don't want to cook (understandable, as GMIL is unwell), so they invited themselves to our house for dinner. Um..... no. MIL is one of those "give them an inch and they'll take a mile" types. So I pushed back. Instead, we are going to brunch at a local restaurant.

This year will be just my husband and me here in DC -- he's working retail part-time while he looks for a job as a lawyer and they needed him to work Black Friday. We've lived here four years and only traveled once -- the traffic was bad enough that I doubt we'll ever go anywhere for Thanksgiving again!

We're running a 5k in the morning, and then we'll cook just a turkey breast and enough sides for two. Should be nice.

I'm home from traveling until the 30th. Holiday travelers were already in the airport today.
I'm going to the gym in the morning then driving down to my parent's house for a couple of days. My birthday is Black Friday.

My family's having the biggest Thanksgiving I think we've ever had. We're having 18 people for dinner. My future in-laws (one set from Indiana, one from Tallahassee), fiance's sister and brother-in-law (Tallahassee), and family friends from Southern Calif. are all flying to Seattle to spend it with us. We're having both a Honeybaked Ham and a smoked turkey. I have to make four pies and God knows how many deviled eggs and cheese puffs. But I'm seriously looking forward to it as this should be a fun bunch!

We're all eating over my sister's house.

My mom texted me this morning and said we're doing Thanksgiving at her house on Saturday (2 days after the real one). Yippee! I'm excited! I was kinda bummed when I heard they were going out of town, but I'm glad we can still celebrate.