I woke this Thanksgiving morning to the smell of fresh coffee...I set the coffee pot up to start at 7 a.m.  Yes...the smell of coffee is a proper alarm clock....even if you wake up an hour AFTER it is done brewing.

I always wake up happy on Thanksgiving morning which is a great feat as I am NOT a morning person. Perhaps it comes from memories as a child and waking up on very chilly Thanksgiving mornings in Montana to the smell of a roasting turkey and the sound of my mom in the kitchen.

So I woke up happy and ready for action!!  I poured my coffee and got busy!  In 2 hours I made a pumpkin pie, a chocolate pie and cleaned up the mess on the floor I made when I pulled the turkey from the fridge.  Yuck!!  I prepped the turkey.  Baked the rolls.  Made the stuffing and stuffed the bird.  And now the bird is roasting comfortably in the oven.  I made pancakes and sausage for my late-rising family!  And now we are all still in pajamas watching football and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

It is just the 4 of us this year.  Unusual as we usually have a mob.  One Thanksgiving we had 20 people.  That was a fun day!!  My very first Thansgiving with the Major we were living in Mississippi.  We had 6 other guys over...they were all in pilot training with my husband and couldn't go home.  So we opened our home...and I phoned my mom oodles of times getting tips..and dinner was a success.  Just like most Thansgiving dinners...I spent all day in the kitchen...and it was gone in 15 minutes.  :o)

Happy Thanksgiving!!