Thanksgiving Traditions of a Geeky Family & Anniversary

Every year Thanks­giv­ing seems to get ear­lier and ear­lier in the year, doesn’t it? It seems like it was just Fourth of July. But any­ways, enough with that. The only tra­di­tion we can count on is that Thanks­giv­ing is dif­fer­ent for us every year and will involve lots of gad­gets for our geeky fam­ily. Since both sides of our fam­ily live about 3–4 hours from us, we are either hav­ing com­pany or we are traveling.

If we travel, we always try to leave on Wednes­day morn­ing, right after work day rush hour and before Noon rush to get out of town. Very pre­cise tim­ing involved which means check­ing traf­fic often on my iPhone. Some years we make it and it takes us 3 hours to get to our des­ti­na­tion and some­times we have #iphone­fail and it takes us 8 hours (seri­ously) to go 3 hours.

Thurs­day morn­ings are devoted to the Macy’s Thanks­giv­ing Day parade viewed on an HD TV only. We turn it on and sit around and chat skype, eat appe­tizer type of foods, surf the web while the kids play video games and  drive us nuts. Oh and there is usu­ally some cook­ing going on that involves those large objects in the kitchen that peo­ple who cook use. Jason will head to McDonald’s for break­fast if there is one open, oth­er­wise, it’s cereal.

We shoot for eat­ing around 4:00 pm. We do get off our gad­gets long enough to eat and enjoy the com­pany.  We typ­i­cally have turkey, stuff­ing, mashed pota­toes, corn, green bean casse­role, rolls and apple pie for dessert. (no gad­gets involved, bor­ing, huh?)

Do you call it stuff­ing or dress­ing? We say stuffing.

After din­ner we usu­ally get comfy, watch a movie and doze off early.

Fri­day morn­ing Jason will head out to Best Buy for the hot gad­get we need want. Black Fri­day is a geek’s dream event. It’s like a gad­get white sale event. I will check prices online while he stands in line. We end up with a few items for the kids for Xmas (and some­thing for us too).

We got mar­ried on Novem­ber 26 (after meet­ing on AOL, told you we were a geeky fam­ily,) which was the Sat­ur­day after Thanks­giv­ing in 1994. We try to get away for a din­ner with­out kids, but not with­out gad­gets, over the hol­i­day week­end. This year will be mar­ried for 15 years and our Anniver­sary falls right on Thanks­giv­ing. I think we will try to go out for din­ner on Sat­ur­day night and then do some shopping.

Our plans vary, but we are always together with fam­ily and thank­ful for all we have. I enjoy hang­ing out at my parent’s house or my in-laws and spend­ing time with fam­ily. I hope that our times together as a fam­ily will be what my kids remember.

Now, head on over to my good friend Hang­ing With Mrs. Cooper’s blog and tell us about your Thanks­giv­ing tra­di­tions. She’s giv­ing away a gor­geous Path2 Peace bas­ket and you could win a bas­ket with your Thanks­giv­ing tra­di­tion story. I’m sure that bas­ket would be a fan­tas­tic place for me to hide all my gad­gets and cords.

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