Thanksgiving Morning Open Thread

A very happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans out there. We're doing the dinner at mom's at 3pm, so I might go to my sister's (Carmela the wonderdog's mom) a bit early to help with the potatoes. I was going to make the cool, and ridiculously fattening, sweet potato casserole Chris had posted yesterday (basically cream, butter, ginger and shredded sweet potatoes), but mom nixed it, claiming that most of our family doesn't like sweet potatoes. I've since found out that mom wasn't exactly telling the truth. We have a theory that mom didn't like the cream and butter in the recipe and this was her way of "saving" us. Ah, mothers...

Anyway, we're going to try to keep the news light and airy today, unless there's a less-than-light story we just have to write about. I'm not sure we do "light" very often at AMERICAblog, so we'll consider this our little experiment.