By The Way...

Yikes: About one American in eight is traveling more than 50 miles this Thanksgiving, and more than 80% of those by car. Not us, I'm thankful to say. We'll be traveling 24.1 miles, which is the exact distance from our garage to the curb in front of my in-laws' place. At which time my mother-in-law will basically put funnels into our mouths and pour roughly 17,000 pounds of food down each of our gullets. She's just that way.

You want to know what I want to know: How much a holiday like Thanksgiving boosts children's DVD sales. As I'm sure you know, many minivans and SUVs these days come with DVD players installed, and so parents can slip one of those silvery discs in the very second the kids start asking "are we there yet?" (which, if they're like me as a kid, was the instant the wheels dropped away from the driveway). Given this, you have to suspect that the couple days before the trip, parents go out and buy a couple new discs to keep the kids amused. So I'm guessing it's a big bump.

And, no, we didn't get the DVD option when we bought our minivan. We let our daughter get bored in the car just like we were when we were kids. It builds character!

Are you going away for the holiday? Where are you going? And, considering when I'm posting this, why aren't you already on the road?

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• #3 Comment from donaldsont33 
  11/29/03 9:27 PM | Permalink

  Hello again,I think my pattern is going to need to be when ever I start worrying about one of my kids I will just wright or in this case type!My 16 year old has also discovered girls.I can only hope that he will be nothing like his father!!!I am lucky enough to be in a new marrige and it is wonderful!!!Good night!donaldsont33@aol.com
• #2 Comment from donaldsont33 
  11/29/03 8:49 PM | Permalink

  I really feel as if my daughter and I have A very open relationship.I just do not trust the young hormone strung boy that she is currently dating.The two of them see no harm in the two of them laying in her bed!I flatter myself to say that I am very straight forward when it comes to being direct!I will tell him the next time he comes over the 2 of you will watch tvout in the living reoom!!
• #1 Comment from aynetal3 
  11/27/03 5:40 AM | Permalink

  Hi John - We wanted to wish you, your family, and the special kitty a Happy Thanksgiving, may you not be too stuffed that afterward you aren't able to see a terrific ball game to which you can fall sleep to! Our best, Ayn and all