I am SO thankful on this Thanksgiving Eve!

I am SO excited for the holiday festivities to finally kick off.  Tonight we will come together with FRIENDS to enjoy Thanksgiving Eve and have a few cocktails.  We’re going start out at a local restaurant for their half priced pasta and wine night.  Two things I am very thankful for ;)

 Tomorrow it’s lots of FAMILY time.  We will head to Kyle’s mom’s house at 11 for lunch.  Let me tell you, that is not a house you want to go to while being on a diet.  His mom and his sister are VERY good cooks. After spending some time there we will run to the grocery store to pick up the mashed potatoes I ORDERED.  I’m so ashamed to admit that but I wanted this holiday to be stress free and I could just see myself ending up with lumpy mashed potatoes and not having time to correct them.  So it is what it is and it will be just fine.  My mom is a nurse and is obviously not always guaranteed holidays off (someone has to help deliver those holiday babes:) so we don’t have to be to my parents’ house until later in the afternoon.  We just might be able to fit in a post turkey nap before heading over there.  Whoop whoop!  Our time there is spent eating, watching football, drinking wine/beer/key lime pie martinis, sneaking in a cat nap on the couch, and looking at the Black Friday ads and planning the shopping that will ensue that night.  (Let me just make it clear that we are not the crazy shoppers that get nasty, push and shove, or stay out all night.  We simply go for a few good deals and just for the fun of it)  We also have a moment where we all say what we are thankful for.  I love this part because everyone usually says something other than family and friends which we all already know we are so very thankful for.  For example, two years ago my nephew said he was thankful for Hungry Hungry Hippo.  See what I mean?  It’s the bestJ 

 It is going to be one busy day but it will be spent with my favorite people and I am SO PUMPED! Tonight,  I will say a little prayer that my parent’s oven makes it through the day (yes, their oven actually broke ON Thanksgiving awhile back. Thank goodness for good neighbors that let you use their oven!)