We will be heading off to the Midwest for Thanksgiving, therefore I will not being cooking “The Meal” for the third year in a row. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it’s all about food and family—no presents to stress over! (Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally crazy about Christmas too) 

There are pluses and minuses to traveling for this holiday:

• Plus: We get to see Stu’s family!!!! Almost all the cousins, aunts, and uncles on his mom’s side will be there, plus two great grandparents and a grandma.
• Minus: No turkey and sweet potato scents wafting through our house.
• Plus: Our rental house oven s.u.c.k.s. so I’d probably under/over cook the bird anyway.
• Minus: My mom’s stuffing won’t grace the spread. Though Great-Grandma Johnson makes a de-licous stuffing, you always want your moms. It’s engrained in us. I will never be able to use other stuffing recipe!!
• Plus: I have time to make cool turkey head bands for Ethan and his little cousin Weston!
• Plus: Relaxation time! And maybe even an evening out with the cousins?
• Plus: Cheesey Potatoes!! Stu’s grandma is a master with these little morsels of gooeyness. I can never seem to recreate, she has the  magic touch.
• Plus: I will be no part of the long lines and crowds at Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, no fighting someone over the last bag of cranberries, no getting home and finding our fridge too small to accomodate the goods.
• Plus: Seeing old friends with new babies!!! Plan on some adorableness in my post-Thanksgiving picture extravaganza here on the blog. College buds we never get to see + cute kids we never get to see = a really good time.

Since they turned out so darn cute, and were REALLY easy to make, I thought I’d share the pattern, just something I threw together in InDesign. There is plenty of time!

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Click the image or here to download a PDF document of the turkey headband pieces. Just print, cut out, trace on card stock or construction paper in the colors of your choice, cut out again, and glue! Attach some ribbon or twine or heck, some kitchen string will do the trick. Then all you have to do is coax your toddler into wearing it for pictures!

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If you make this, please link up pics! I’d love to see your cute kiddos all turkey’d out.

Since we’ll be busy traveling, seeing family, and eating ridiculous amounts of food, I’ll go a head and say it now:

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!