My Thanksgiving is getting up early November 22 and driving down to Somerset where my moms sister and her kids live. Arriving in Somerset around 12 and having my mom and aunt do the rest of the cooking. While my brother and I visit with our cousins. My moms good friend arrives with the smoked turkey that will be fantastic! At around 2 or 2:30 we sit down to eat. Yes, eat dinner. We are a family that for some reason has always eaten Thanksgiving meal as early as we can. We sit around the table for on 3 hours or so? During that time we eat dinner, desert and talk about anything and everything. We all crack each other up and for some reason any meal together we always end on teaching our parents, aunts and uncles all the "lingo" the "kids are using these days". This year we focused on Swag, YOLO, and Twitter- or tweeter and my uncle refers to it. After that we go our tired, slow separate ways to find a spot in the house to rest. My cousins, my brother and I go to the the lounge area so we can play cards and watch football. My mom falls asleep in a chair, my aunt falls asleep on the couch, my uncle falls asleep on another couch and my other uncle falls asleep in the basement. Then around 11 we all meander to our sleeping arrangements for the night.
Our tradition for the day after Thanksgiving, and Christmas as well, is to go see a movie and then go out to eat. While we didn't follow that exactly this year we did stay in and watch Winters Bone but sadly no dinner with them after.
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