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I’m back! Well, kind of. There is still plenty to do and lots of people to see before I can get back to my regularly scheduled blogging but I had to stop by and say hello to everyone. I know that you are all going crazy with anticipation of my amazing family Thanksgiving. You are, aren’t you?

Well, it was GREAT. I got to sleep in until 10am and woke up to snow. I turned on the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade and saw flurries all over, got up and looked out the window and there it was…our first snow. Luckily nothing stuck and traveling was still fine but it was a very nice sight.

At around 3 I went down to my parents house and lent a hand until around 4 when everyone started to show up for dinner. As always, my mother made entirely too much food. Before the official dinner even started there was guacamole, shrimp, spanikopita (Greek phyllo dough filled with spinach and cheese), and bruschetta. In other words...entirely too much food.

It was a smaller Thanksgiving for us, just the 12 of us. It was me, Yiayia, my parents, my sisters, my niece, my sister’s fiancé and daughter, and Matt’s parents. Usually we are at my Aunts house with all the cousins and it’s insane with around 30 people. Since my Dad is still on the mend we decided to have a low key Thanksgiving and enjoy a little engagement party too. It is important to us to spend some quality time with Matt’s parents and get to know his family better. Luckily we didn’t scare them off. J

I think we went through a good 3 bottles of wine before dinner even started. We had a very lovely prayer and then sat down to an amazing dinner. We had the normal turkey and stuffing, mashed potatoes, spinach casserole, green bean casserole, candied carrots, sweet potato casserole, corn, rolls, sweet potato muffins, olives and pickles, cole slaw, and more wine. Seriously, who needs that much food!?

As if a family dinner isn’t crazy enough, add two cute but crazy 4 year olds and it’s just plain tiring. So, after much dinner was consumed, desert (pumpkin pie, fruit tart, cookies, and a white cloud engagement cake) we cleaned up and the kids went home incredibly cranky. Matt’s parent’s stayed a bit longer and then we had a bit of down time.

Now, I am 30 years old and I have never, not once in my whole life, gone out shopping on Black Friday. Not once. There was a reason for this; I just didn’t know it yet. I agreed to go Black Friday shopping at the Philadelphia Outlets with my youngest sister Gina, who at 20, can do stuff like that! I cannot. Good LORD! So around 9 we decided to nap and get ready for our crazy shopping outing. I managed a name till around 11:20 and then we rallied and left in the cold drizzly weather to make the trip to HELL!

A 30 minute trip took us 2 and half hours. I’m serious! We sat for about 1 ¾ hours in stand still traffic trying to get to the outlets. It dawned on me that ALL these cars were going the same exact place, that parking was going to be a bitch, and that I was flat out crazy. It was nice to spend the quality time with Gina, but dear God I am not a patient person and I hate traffic with a fiery passion.

So we get in there, park, and make our way to the stores. There are lines, around buildings, in the rain, of people waiting to get into Coach, Polo, etc and it’s insanity! Anyway, we get in and out of our stores, which by the way had amazing sales!! Get back out to the parking lot somewhere around 3:45 am and head off to Target. Target was opening at 4 and we only needed a couple things in there while we wasted time to go to Dick’s Sporting Goods to get my father’s hammock.

Apparently Target had a huge sale on flat screen TV’s because every cart had a giant HD 40 inch flat screen in it. We pick up about 5 pairs of boots and shoes, some belts, costume jewelry, and then get into the express checkout line. We are pros! We are in and out of there in no time. We go over to Dick’s and guess what…hammocks are sold online only. Awesome! So we leave to head home and oddly enough I’m not even remotely tired. At around 6 am I drop my sister off at my parent’s house and head home to sleep.

Needless to say I didn’t get much sleep. A solid 5 hours and I’m up again. I am feeling super lazy but managed to order a baby shower gift and the hammock online (free shipping is awesome) and then just veg out.

Tonight is going to be a nice relaxing night with my sisters Alana and Gina over at Alana’s new place. We’re going to have some soup, cozy up on the sofa and watch her newly purchased, Eat, Pray, Love. J I can’t wait to watch the movie because I loved the book SO much. I’ll be sure and let you know how it is.

I'm sleeping at the parent's house tonight so tomorrow I can go with Gina, at 7am, to Rice’s Flea Market. It’s my first time there but she swears by it. I am excited for some good deals and lots of cool stuff. I’m not sure if I will be shopping for myself or for others but I plan on having fun regardless.

Have a great day/night everyone!

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