Happy Thanksgiving!

I am totally enjoying today! Selfish as it may sound, I’m home alone, knitting a little, still in my pjs at noon and drinking gallons of coffee and reading blogs!

We are breaking with tradition this year. Normally we either cook her and have both families over or juggle going to my mother’s and either his mother’s or brother’s houses all in the same day. Either way there is lots of work and cooking involved and invariably some family arguement that just can’t be avoided and all the other “fun” stuff that goes along with the holidays.

This year, we changed the plan. We have told both mothers that we want to spend a thanksgiving on our own (a first in 7 years) and have made plans to go to J & L’s house for dinner. This is the couple that we spent the entire trip to Italy with last month and after traveling with someone for 3 weeks they really do become family. So you could say we will be having dinner with the family we chose rather than the families we were born into. DH is working during the day and should be finished sometime after 6 (or as early as 4 if the manager is kind) and we are due at their house by 6.

This means that other than making my famous homemade cranberry sauce and 2 apple pies and getting myself ready and over there . . . the rest of the day is mine to use as I please. No extra cleaning for company, no birds to cook or sides to make , just knitting and coffee and Superman on Scifi!

What a beautiful Thanksgiving!

Apparently my rant the other day did strike a few cords with bloggers out there. Glad to know I’m not alone; perhaps we should start a Fiber Snobs Support Group?

Bess has an interesting approach to gift giving and receiving, I have to say I’d like to adopt it for my own in the future!

Well, again, Happy Thanksgiving! I’m going back to my mitten project!