It's Thanksgiving and we're headed to North Carolina this week to be with Tami's parents and her family. You may not know that Tami is the only one in her family who does not live in North Carolina. It's her parents fault - really! They left there for several years in the1970's and actually lived in the Memphis area just long enough for Tami and I to meet, date for three and one half years and then get married. After we married her parents soon returned to North Carolina. Her dad has been the minister of the Wendover Avenue Church of Christ in Greensboro for the past twenty years.
We've always alternated our annual trip between Christmas and Thanksgiving. This year it's Thanksgiving. It's a little more difficult to make the trip because we don't have as much time as we do at Christmas. It takes a hard day's drive (about twelve hours) just to get there. Seeing that we'll leave on Wednesday and come back on Sunday that means we only have three days there. They'll be spent eating, watching football, visiting relatives, eating, visiting relatives, eating, watching football and did I mention - visiting relatives. Not much time for any r & r with all the eating, watching football and of course - visiting relatives. As we get a little older (oouch - hard to admit) that drive doesn't get any shorter either.
Still, we will enjoy the time with Ma, Da, brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins. And for Tami and me the highlight will be that our daughter and granddaughters from Florida will be there and we'll get to see them! So it will be eating, watching football, visiting relatives and playing with grandkids! Yea!
In case I don't get to 'blog' again before the big day this week - my hope and prayer is that you'll have a Great Thanksgiving.
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