rum runners and french onion dip

i drove home yesterday to chill out at Mom and Dad's for a couple of days for the glorious turkey holiday. I have to go back tomorrow night because I have to work on Friday morning, so I wanted to get as much time at home as possible.
I gave Megan, one of the students on my team, a ride to Elkhorn and we had a good time just talking and listening to a talk from a conference (you may think that sounds awful, but to her and I, this was incredibly exciting). I got home, had some dinner with my parents, and Cari stopped by. We went to grab some coffee with Joe at White Fox.
For those of you who have never been to Burlington, this is THE thing to do. And it was surreal. I hadn't seen either them in about a year. Life was different. We were different. But we were doing the same thing that we did in high school. We were talking about what we did in middle school. And when we had met in grade school. These are those people that, though you don't talk for a year, when you finally do see each other, nothing has changed and they still know you as the girl who pretended to have a black eye during that wrestling match with that boy you had a crush on. Which, by the way, he got me back for. We talked about homecoming senior year and how many guys Amy made out with as the queen. We talked about our old scary movie nights. And we talked about how our lives had gone in completely different directions than we thought they would. Well, maybe not Joe's, who will still go out to L.A. to make movies.
I got to spend today bumming around Burlington and the surrounding area, picking my Brianna from the high school, tromping around the backyard in my dad's too-big-for-me boots in order to hang my sheets on the clothes line outside, making dinner for the family and playing cards with my sisters...and perhaps having one too many rum runners with them. We got in trouble from mom for laughing too hard and being too loud, which just made us laugh harder.

I love my family and the holidays.

I just hope I don't pass out after eating too much turkey on the drive home tomorrow. And honestly, I can't wait until Christmas when I will be home for a solid 6 days. :)