1. What are your Thanksgiving plans?
We'll go to my sister-in-law's for lunch and then my sister's for dinner. I don't get completely out of cooking. I'll make cranberry salad and a spinach salad for both and probab;y cook a whole meal the next day because I love the leftovers!!

2. What is your typical Thanksgiving meal?
Turkey, cranbeery salad, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, veggies (either carrots, peas, corn, asparagus and/or green beans) and a (green) salad.

3. Have you started your holiday shopping? Will you hit the Black Friday sales?
I have several things tucked away but am still looking for the "big" electronic thing. Cameras? camcorders? Laptops? Looking for a deal.

4. When do you start decorating your house for the holidays, if you do?
Usually we do it all the weekend nearest St. Nicholas Day but as I am feeling my age lately, I might get the outside lights up after Thanksgiving to avoid hanging from a ladder in a snowstorm.

5. What is the one thing (tradition, food, drink) that is unique to your family for the Thanksgiving holiday?
I don't think we have don'e anything unique. My Mom, sisters and I always go to mass in the morning but the kids prefer staying home to watch the parades with the Dads We pick names for the Christmas exchange and exchange lists with the grandparents. Love to see some ideas to jazz it up!