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The countdown to Thanksgiving has begun. This is my favorite holiday because it's all about family. And food, football and flaking out, but those are the things that bring us together and I love it for those reasons, too. For the first time in almost 10 years we are not going to the mountains, and thank goodness because it's already snowing relentlessly and we don't have the patience for chains and traffic. My dad might sit it out but the rest of us definitely won't. Instead we're going home. We'll all make the trip to mom and dad's, a family twice the size it was since the last time we gathered around the Thanksgiving table in the house we grew up in. We'll struggle to wrap up work before Thursday, arrange appetizers and bake desserts, and get the girls to nap. This year we'll bring spouses, in-laws, grandchildren. We'll bring our grateful, exhausted selves and our bigger adults worries and even greater love and respect for one another. It is truly, for my family, a year to celebrate.