Walmart and Target were among the first to announce they would be closed on Thanksgiving Day, and others are adding their names to the list as we speak.
2020 can already easily be described as weird. Not many things this year have been normal so it's safe to say that the Holiday season's also going to be weird.
One of the toughest aspects of my post-divorce life has been holidays. Everything looks and feels different now and it is in these moments that I find myself longing for my family unit, but I've learned great lessons along the way.
Every year there are two groups of people in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving: those who allow Christmas into their lives and those who don't have room for two holidays.
There was one year I remember driving from my house in Seattle to my mom's about 40 miles north on Thanksgiving Day, and it took me nearly three hours to get there.