8AM: Rise and shine and sling a pumpkin pie in the oven. Have steel cut oats with blueberries from our August haul while watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and rifling through the newspaper. Are there really places open for business at 4am tomorrow morning?! Yikes!
12PM: Decide that getting dressed would be a good idea.
1PM: We might as well be hosting dinner here -- we've baked pies, made supergarlic mashed potatoes, and roasted a turkey in the last 24 hours. In the spirit of Thanksgiving and sharing the meal with friends and family, everything except for the turkey will be taken to others' homes. The turkey is for our own sandwiches and next week's turkey soup!
3:30PM: Just in from a crisp walk to our favorite neighborhood bakery cafe - HiRise Bakery - I'm going to get cozy under blankets with books (plural) and Mike will snuggle up to the remote so that he can comfortably channel surf the array of football offerings.
Soon enough, we'll be off to our friends' home for dinner and thanks-giving. Tomorrow we'll journey up to Northern Vermont for a much-anticipated visit with cousins.
What a wonderful holiday. We're giving thanks for all of you!
xoxo
