Colby and I are out of town for T-giving, about 1.5 hours northwest of home. Feels so good to be back in INDIANA!! To get here you take 2-lane back roads, no interstate. So we were driving here and a John Mellencamp song came on. Ahhhh, good stuff, I was loving it. Just glad we didn't see any deer. I'm always paranoid about hitting a deer. But like it would matter in the terdmobile. It would probably just feel like hitting a pot hole or running over a little stick haha.

I'm not a huge fan of Thanksgiving. I mean it's okay I suppose, guess I could take or leave it. But I love coming here for a few days, AWAY from that dumpy apartment, and spending time with the fam. Love getting in the kitchen and cooking with my aunt. And cook we did!! We were in this kitchen all dang day, but the time flew by and we had a great time. No disasters either. No buttered up turkeys rolling across the floor (yeah, that happened 1 year), no using salt instead of sugar in the cake (Loretta Lynn style), and no forgotten ingredients (although my uncle has made 3 trips to the grocery in 3 days I believe). I did almost catch a dish towel on fire, I'm not used to using a gas stove. But other than that, it's gone smoothly. And just for the record, I make the world's best carrot cake. That's not bragging, just a cold hard fact.

They live in a tri-level house so you know what that means, yep, taking Colby up and down stairs. My cousin has been a huge help in getting Colby downstairs to the living room then back up to our bedroom. That's definitely something I'm thankful for right now!! They have a dog this year. His name is Bo (short for Beauregard) and he's a golden doodle. He's gorgeous. He's only 8 months old and is huge, but is very well behaved and a sweetie. Colby and I want to add golden doodle to our Christmas lists.

I've been explaining to Colby Michael over the last couple of weeks how we should give thanks each and every day, not just on the 4th Thursday of November. We're so lucky for the people in our lives who care about us, love us, help us, etc. Because let's face it, we need a lot of help! I hope he gets some concept of it.

So the rest of the fam will come over tomorrow and we'll chow down on the typical Turkey Day feast. Around here it'll be turkey, mashed taters and gravy, stuffing, corn, green beans, kale (icky), rolls, orange salad (family tradition), deviled eggs, carrot cake, pumpkin pie, appetizers and that strange cranberry sauce crap. I think that's about it. We're famous for leaving something in the fridge come dinner time and it not getting eaten. Guess we should make a list. Colby and I will pack up and head home Friday.

Black Friday. Never have, never will. Don't even ask.

Time to go snuggle up with my favorite blessing of all, sweet Colby boy.