Thanksgiving Plans?

Yeahhh Patriots! I actually don't care much about football but I am from New England and my boyfriend is a huge Pats fan. I'm actually headed to Marin in a little over an hour to visit the only family that I have in California. They always have big, fun meals and gatherings. Then tomorrow I head home to Connecticut to introduce my boyfriend to the rest of my family (insert dramatic music here).

It should all be fine but we just watched "Four Christmases" where they go and meet each others' families, and we sincerely hope that our process goes smoother than that.

Uhhh! The big family meeting--big pressure! Just kidding. It sounds like you have a pretty close relationship with your family and things are fairly functional so I'm sure that it will go great. Marin sounds like the perfect Bay Area location for Thanksgiving as well. Very leafy and probably foggy.

I don't like most of the that Four Christmases movie (a little too sequential for me--you know, one family, then another one, then another one), but I love the manger scene sequence--Vince Vaughn is hilarious.

Another good movie about the whole bringing the fiance/e home to meet the parents (other than Meet the Parents, of course) is The Family Stone with Sarah Jessica Parker and a great cast. Its kinda a dramady but I really liked it. (Diane Keaton, Dermot Mulroney, Rachel MacAdams and more.) Hard not to like it with that cast.

Yes, go Pats! The family meeting went great - I have a few relatives with relatively little tact, but everything was generally very well-received and everyone was on their best behavior - always good in these types of gatherings. And yes, now I'm back in Patriots land, where it is all anyone talks about.

Family Stone is a great movie - I remember seeing it about two years ago and really enjoying the complicated love plot, but I always have a soft spot for romance movies. And Dermot Mulroney.