Berrybean and August - Your plans sound wonderful!
August - sounds like a night out for a Steak dinner over Thanksgiving is going to be delicious! Enjoy!
Berrybean - What great plans! Helping others less fortunate is truly a nice thing to do over Christmas. I hear you on the New Years thing. I too can not stay up that late anymore and I have spent the last number of years at home alone drinking the night away. I am usually in be before midnight,and will NOT be passed out from sitting home drinking alone another New Years. Yipeee