This year, the kids and I made the 24 hour drive from Kansas City to Phoenix to spend Thanksgiving with my family. We planned to make the drive there and back an adventure, making stops along Route 66 and at other fun places. Nothing went according to plan. There was snow and ice all but […]
He’s ba-ack! The Elf on the Shelf is a relatively new way the youngest generation celebrates the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The day after Thanksgiving, the elf appears and observes who’s naughty and who’s nice. Each evening, he flies back to the North Pole to give Santa his report and lands in a new […]
Although it was Kansas City’s 83rd Plaza Lighting Ceremony, last night’s ceremony was a first for me and the kids. I didn’t grow up here Somewhere-in-the-Middle-of-the-USA so the ceremony wasn’t part of our family’s Thanksgiving tradition. Plus also, I don’t like crowds. Or being cold. But with a high of 70F yesterday and a sweet […]
Thanksgiving is probably the only holiday meal I don’t make at home. With all of our family far away, the six of us decided a few years ago that it was faster, easier, more cost-effective, and fun to just make reservations. And so that has become our tradition. This year we took a […]
Another pause in Europe pics to share a “real-time” pic from Thanksgiving… In my family, Thanksgiving is the official start of Old Fashioned season, a fruited whiskey drink we enjoy through New Year’s, with an alcohol-free version for the kids. So instead of a photo of a turkey, Thanksgiving feast, or pumpkin pie, I bring […]
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