With the end of the semester rapidly approaching, I've been working so hard I haven't had time to recount the gloriousness of the annual Quartermaine Thanksgiving!  I think I've made it clear just how much I love Thanksgiving.  It's my favorite!

Things this year were pretty tame by Quartermaine standards though.  No fights!  Not even ones of love!  Well, unless you count the little spat between the men and women about whether we should watch football or the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  I love football and all, but unless my Bills are playing, nothing messes with my parade!  In case you were wondering, we won and banished the boys to another room!  As always, Cook made the best dinner with all my favorites, especially the stuffing and pumpkin pie!  Yummy.  My parents invited the Scorpios and Jax and Brenda so maybe everyone (and by everyone I mean Tracy) was on their best behavior.  Emma and Harlan have already gotten so big!  Which reminds me that Robin and Patrick have re-set the date for the wedding after Christmas so I'll update on that later.

Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, I've been thinking about Christmas.  My mom's been asking me what I want, so I've come up with a few things.

1.  Vineyard Vines Tote:  Collegiate Collection.



LOVE!  It has the Cornell bear!


2.  Brooks Brothers Pajama Set



I need some new pajamas and I adore these!.


3.  Sperry Nautical Print Bahama Shoe



Every girl knows life is not worth living without shoes!  So they're not the high fashion ones Maxie would pick and I won't be able to wear them until spring, but they're so cute!


So, those are some of the things on my list.  Now what I really need to be thinking about is what to get everyone else!

Big news ... Nikolas and Emily are engaged!  Not that Emily needs my opinion on who she should marry, but I love Nikolas so I'm especially excited.

So this wonderful tidbit makes this Thanksgiving (already one of my favorite holidays) even better.  I love Thanksgiving.  I love the food, I love helping Cook make the food (now that he actually lets me in the ktchen!), I love the big family dinner.  Everything about it makes me giddy this time of year.  

So Nikolas spent Thanksgiving dinner with us (Spencer stayed at Luke and Laura's with his cousins), but he and Emily planned on heading to his mother's afterward.  He invited Dillon, Brook Lynn, and I along so we headed to the Spencer's house.  Dillon and I stayed for a while (we both love Luke's antics!) then we headed to Mac's while Brook Lynn helped Lulu baby-sit Cameron, Jake and Spencer (Emily, Nikolas, Luke, Laura, Lucky Elizabeth went out to celebrate the engagement and get the parents some adult time).

We made it to the Scorpio's in time for football and dessert!  I love Felicia's pumpkin pie.  Patrick and Robin made up so they were there.  Robert too as well as Mac, Felicia, Maxie, Georgie, and Jack, of course.  They live there and all.  I love the Scorpio-Jones house.  Something about just gets to me.  It's homey.  Obviously, I think of my house as home, but it doesn't have the same homey feel as that house.  I think that's why I loved being at their house so much as a kid.  And I think my parents recognized it too because instead of hiring some drone of a nanny for watch me, they always arranged for Felicia to keep me before I went to school and, later, afterschool.  And it was convenient since Mac and Felicia's house is on the way to the hospital.  Maxie and I would always play and do our homework together until Mac came home.  Then he would gather Maxie, Georgie, and I and spend time with "his girls" until my parents picked me up.  

While I'm reminiscing, as much as I loved the Scorpios, I loved going home just as much.  I loved family dinners every night.  I still do.  We have such a big family, dinner is always eventful.  And now, since AJ got married and had kids, the dinner table has gotten more crowded.  And I wouldn't have it any other way.  I love it.