Son has to work the day and weekend after so we are going to his girlfriend's Aunt's house on Thanksgiving Day. Feels weird to me because I don't know either the girlfriend or the aunt well at all - though enjoy them both to the extent I do know them. Will be an opportunity to know them better, but always think of Thanksgiving as a time to be with close family and/or close friends when I can't get home.

Friday morning I'll get up early and drive to West Virginia to Mom's. Sis is driving in also. We used to have a family Thanksgiving at whatever point in the weekend the most people could get "home." Would often be 10-20 people at the table among cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. That was years ago, before so many of us moved away and raised kids elsewhere.

We are so small now, it is hard for the younger generations to juggle schedules, distances and dinners at assorted in-laws, and it is still hard without Daddy. The three of us will be thankful to have a weekend together, but will not make a feast of it. Probably go out to a good restaurant one night over the weekend, taking the nephew who lives with Mom with us, then plan on making rounds to visit the few other relatives in the area over the course of the weekend.