Our kids reminded us last night about Thanksgiving break. They’ve got the whole WEEK off from school next week. What the hell? When I was in school (I feel about 90 years old just typing that phrase!) we’d maybe get off early on Wednesday, and we’d be off Thursday and Friday, and return to school the Monday after Thanksgiving. I’m only off from work on Thanksgiving and Black Friday. I wonder if most parents are in a bind over this? Do many people still travel to see family on Thanksgiving? Our family is all here, so we never do. Even when I was younger, my grandmother was usually in her winter home in Pensacola, FL during Thanksgiving, and it only took us a day to get there.

And no WONDER the kids are going to school into the first week of June in 2008. All of these extra half days and days off for Thanksgiving are adding up!

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