I’m not sure how this hasn’t come up on the blog yet (because it’s all I talk about in real life), but I’m going to Miami for Thanksgiving!!!  Adam and I are meeting my parents there tomorrow for four days of nostalgic, sunny, fun.  We don’t have any family in Florida (we’re spending Turkey Day at a steak/seafood place) but my parents loved visiting when Adam and I went to UM and they thought it’d be fun to recreate a trip.

I’ve been excited for weeks but I hadn’t actually thought logistics until this morning.  Today’s to-do list includes –

• packing for myself and the husband
• packing some sort of “brunch” for the airplane tomorrow
• painting my toe nails
• shaving my legs for the first time in at least two months (eww!)
• putting away tons of laundry
• dropping the dog off at the vets for boarding
• lots of random schoolwork

Where are you spending Thanksgiving?

I started my morning with the most decadent oatmeal.

I know a lot of food bloggers use that word a lot, decadent, but this bowl seriously was.  I had to use up the open pumpkin but wasn’t in the mood for its slightly bitter flavor and I just kept adding ingredients to cover it up.

What I ended up with was –

• 1 cup skim milk (cooked)
• 1 medium banana, sliced (cooked)
• 1 pinch salt (cooked)
• 1/4 cup oats (cooked)
• 1/4 cup pumpkin (cooked)
• 1/4 cup 1% cottage cheese (stirred in at the end)
• 2 tsp butterscotch chips (topped)
• 1 Tbsp Biscoff spread (topped)
• 1 Tbsp light cream (topped)

Dang.  And amazingly my least favorite additions were the chips and Biscoff; they strong-armed the other flavors in their bites.  My most favorite was the cottage cheese.  I’ve used that before but I don’t think I realized how much I like it.  I need to put that on the grocery list more often!

Don’t forget, you have until 2pm EST to enter my Duncan Hines giveaway.