It does not feel like Thanksgiving week. In our "normal" life we would be driving to Idaho today to celebrate the holiday with our extended family. This year Abi and Tim have school and work on Thursday.....that is so weird!!! Tucker also has to work around the holiday and chose to work this week and request time off at Christmas when we will all be home together. This will be our first Thanksgiving without Tucker and his without us. If I think about it too much I will start to "bubble".

We are taking Abi out of school a few hours early tomorrow (our Thursday) so we can go to dinner with some US expat families. The other HP group made arrangements to rent a restaurant in Pudong and they are preparing a traditional turkey dinner. So....about 45 of our closest friends (that we will meet for the first time tomorrow) will enjoy dinner together. It is good to have a community of people to celebrate our crazy traditions with.

No school for Abi on Friday and Tim is going to take the day off work. So.....we are going to create our own "Black Friday" and do a bit of Christmas shopping.

On Saturday we will have another Thanksgiving celebration with my coffee connection friends. I have been trying to introduce Tim to this group for a while but something always comes up and we miss the opportunity. The dinner is a joint effort with each family bringing a few dishes to share.

We are thankful for our family and our many friends all over the country and world. We send you happy thoughts and blessings this Thanksgiving!!!