The Sewing Mom

We will be leaving on Sunday to fly to California and will be spending the Thanksgiving holiday with my daughter-in-law, her husband and their beautiful little girl. This will be my first time to see their home and only my second to see the little one and we are all so thrilled that we got the opportunity to go spend time with them. It seems like Thanksgiving would never get here when you consider these plans have been in the works since this past June!

As excited as I am for the Thanksgiving trip, I can’t help but think about what we might like to do over the Christmas break. It looks like my husband may have a company enforced vacation the week of Christmas and I’m thinking that it might be nice to go someplace. I’d like it to be some place relatively close that we could drive and not have to deal with the airlines since we’re doing that for Thanksgiving.

My husband was born and raised in Kansas City, but we’ve never really had the chance to explore that state. In fact, we’ve only ever visited the city of Kansas City as a family. One of his favorite memories growing up is the annual trips his family would take to The Ozarks. This is an area that has changed quite a bit since his childhood, but it’s still a destination worth traveling too, probably better now than years ago with even more things to do and see. We’ve always talked about going there, just haven’t done it. Let’s see, besides Silver Dollar City, which my husband remembers, there are two other amusement parks. There is also the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans museum which I’m sure also shows Trigger, the horse. My favorite thing would probably be Old Time Christmas that runs between now and the end of December. Everything is lit up and twinkling for the holidays and there are shops, food and crafts all over town.

There are plenty of accommodations in Branson too. One choice would be the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel, but for us, I think I’d have to choose the Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing. One reason is that Santa will be there! My daughter never wants to go anywhere at Christmas because she’s afraid Santa won’t be able to find her. Well, Hilton has taken care of that for me!There are several packages being offered at all of the Hilton hotels, but at the Hilton Promenade at Branson Landing there is, of course, the Santa in Branson Package, but also the “It’s a Wonderful Life” package and a very special New Year’s Eve package.

I think I’ll have a family meeting tonight and see if we can make some plans to go to Branson.