Thanksgiving is just around the corner

My parents are back in Japan , and now, my life came back to normal.

It's holiday season here. I don't know for sure the exact period of the 'season', but it seemed to be considered to begin with Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November) and end with New Year's day.
Shops and supermarkets exhilarate us with their decoration for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and TV and radio programs spur us to put in a merry mood. People talk about how they're gonna spend their 4-day Thanksgiving weekend, and it encourages us to make a plan too. We haven't decided it yet, but got some ideas ;)