Happy Thanksgiving! – UPDATED

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! I am off to make a Tres Leche Cake and Baked Oatmeal, among other things!

If you’re feeling a little overwhelmed or wondering what there is to be thankful about, Marcia Morrissey has a pretty helpful column, in that case.

Also, if you need a few tips on handling family over the course of the weekend, you can check out Fr. James Martin’s advice

Will see you again on Friday! I hope Thanksgiving opens our hearts with gladness and gratitude for the gift of life we have been given, and my prayers will be for all of us — the rich, poor, busy, marginalized, lonely, over-worked, sick, worried; it is true that we are all in the midst of a great battle, not always apparent to others. God bless us all.

UPDATE: I didn’t see Obama’s pardoning of the turkeys but Kathy Schiffer did. It sounds remarkably classless, inappropriate and kind of pathetic.

Comments will close later this afternoon, to free me up from monitoring, and to control spam while I’m “off.”