My main mantras for dealing with successful adult children are “go with the flow” and “stay outta the fray”.

Today I came up with a new one. It’s a holiday mantra but I’m not sure I totally have the right words yet. Something like, “plan for more than enough for whoever might show up and welcome everyone but don’t ever try to guilt trip people into joining you” but that’s a pretty long mantra. I mean, it’s not like I’ve never done things that way anyway. Turkey day is easy to do and I do welcome everyone. Well, not serial killer type people of course but they are not likely to hang out with the people in my family.

So it was a great turkey day. Some of the fam went downtown to do the turkey trot. The GG went downtown early early to meet up with them (although he did not do the trot). He did eventually find the trotters but not for a while because he didn’t exactly get the time right. Whatever. We had eggs benny and then the trotters came over and made their own breakfasts on Gertrude after the turkey trot. My mouse cleaned Gertrude’s stovetop within an inch of its life and I am forever grateful for that.

Then I cooked a pretty traditional tday dinner with enough for everyone in the local fam plus. npJane visited for a while but had other plans for dinner with The Friends and we had a couple other guests. And a terrifically hard jigsaw puzzle, which the GG is working on in the pic. I am not really a jigsaw aficionado (except for the one the Uncly Uncle had made for me out of a photo I took) but jigsaw puzzles give people something to do on holidays when it’s too crappy to go outside and the football game is over.

My main point is, anyone who wants to join us for turkey day (or any other holiday) is welcome. Even if you want to spend the afternoon napping on the couch, which a couple of trotters did today. I love when people are napping in my house. That means they are comfortable here.

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