Holiday round-up: In between giving thanks

Thanksgiving week has always been my favorite week of the year – and this year I took the entire week off from work to fully enjoy it. Between friends, family, food and celebrating my (sigh) 26th birthday, I squeezed in:

Blazing through a pile of these on my coffee table:

Belatedly reviewing this single:

Discovering this gem from a few months ago:

Quoting this:

“Quick, what’s my favorite hospital food? Jellooo.”

Drinking too many of these:

And obsessing over anything and everything Christmas. Join me?

Sound Bite: "Modern Family" and same sex parenting

“For Jesse and I, we get comments and compliments from gay moms and gay dads, and kids of same sex parents. They say, ‘Hey, thanks for being a couple that I can point to,’ like, ‘Cam and Mitchell are kind of like my family.’ Things like that that transcend our job.”

-Eric Stonestreet backstage at the 2011 SAG Awards, after “Modern Family”deservedly won the award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.