patching...
Welcome back, Patch Blogger!

Hosting Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Raising Concord

Raising Concord: Thanksgiving Has Gone to the Kids

This Thanksgiving, I have decided to let the kids rule and sit back and enjoy the ride.

  I am hosting Thanksgiving this year and couldn’t be happier about it. Mainly because I get to see my family, but also because we don’t have to endure the busiest travel day of the year via planes, trains and automobiles. I will be sure to remember that when my brothers show up with their families looking tired and defeated. But the prospect of my sister-in-law's delicious cooking and a few rounds of ping-pong (family tradition) will surly cure what ails them. But I think the best part about this Thanksgiving will be my “let the kids take over” mentality. I feel like my kids are finally old enough, along with their cousins, to really get involved. I started right after Halloween with a great Magic Tree House Fact Tracker book simply …

Got a Hot Tip?
 
 

Videos