A quiet Thanksgiving!

This year I stayed in North Carolina for Thanksgiving instead of traveling to New York to be with family. It's not that I didn't want to spend the holiday with my family, I just didn't want to travel. Thanksgiving is the worst travel time. It's a 12 hour drive one way, and the traffic is awful. Unless you leave very early on Sunday morning, say around midnight or 1:00 am, it usually takes 14 to 15 hours to get home.

Dennis has been in NY since the 16th. He goes every year at this time to hunt. Haylee really wanted to go to NY for Thanksgiving, so she took a flight up on Tuesday the 22nd. That left me spending Thanksgiving with the cat and the dog!! Another reason to stay home--it's not cheap to board the pets. 

I'm enjoying my peace and quiet! Yesterday morning I cleaned out the front closet, and while my Thanksgiving dinner was cooking I put the contents back in. Funny how you can get so much more done when you don't have to worry about someone watching everything you're trashing. Translation: my husband's a pack rat and wants to keep everything. I didn't go crazy and trash too much, only about half a garbage bag!

As always, I am thankful for family, friends, and Dennis' health being stable.