From the My Home 2.0 family to yours, have a safe, happy, and relaxing Thanksgiving holiday!

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So you're busy with your last-minute Thanksgiving preparations and you're packing up the car and you just have no time to run out and buy travel games to keep the family entertained during your holiday road trip this weekend? No problem! I've got some tips for you to play games together as you head towards your turkey destination, if you're keen of eye and brave of heart...

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Ahh, Thanksgiving.  Its promise of turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, family togetherness, and lots and lots of driving.  Not all of us can be as lucky as the Wurtzes and have 81 cousins in town to share holidays with! We have about 12 hours to go to visit our family this weekend, and sometimes for the kids, that's about 11 hours too many.  What's a mom to do?  Sure, we have a TV in the car (insert a grumble about how when I was a kid, the grazing cows on the side of the road were entertainment enough!), but my kids can only watch so many movies before they (and I) get antsy.  What's a family on the road to do for long haul entertainment?  How about road games?...

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Alison's fiber optic hat. Brian's pipe organ chair. Your family's totally sweet hand turkeys and acorn wreaths. What can you do if you want to share these labors of love with the whole world?...

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I'm going to make a confession to you: sometimes the thought of Thanksgiving fills me with dread at the amount of planning and work in store for me, instead of joy for the time I get to spend with my family. I'm sure I'm not alone, nor am I the only one who feels guilty about it. It's a rough transition moving from being a kid, when holidays are magical and just happen, to being an adult and realizing how much planning goes in to making them happen!

But all is not lost. If your place mats and napkin rings don't perfectly coordinate with your cornucopia centerpiece, do you really think that Uncle Jim and Aunt Esther are really going to notice? And even if they do, so what? Let Thanksgiving be about spending quality time with the ones you love. It just so happens that you can have the best of both worlds: bonding with your children and sprucing up the house for Thanksgiving...

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