(A/N: Here's a fun Thanksgiving story featuring one of our favorite T.U.F.F. families. Well, it's a chapter story, and this is the first chapter. Enjoy!)

It was a fine morning during late November in the city of Petropolis. The weather was starting to get pretty cold, but it hadn't snowed yet, and the trees were losing a lot of their leaves. But today, people didn't have time to enjoy the fall scene, because it's Thanksgiving Day, and they were going to visit their families. In fact, let's go see what Dudley and Kitty are up to right now.

At Dudley and Kitty's house, we find the couple in bed, asleep. It's 7:00 a.m., and their alarm clock just went off. Kitty shut off the alarm, and she realized that it's morning.

"Dudley, it's morning. Wake up." Kitty whispered, gently nudging her husband, trying to wake him up.

"Mom, school doesn't start for a few more hours..." Dudley mumbled sleepily, turning the other way in his sleep.

"Wake up!" Kitty yelled in Dudley's ear.

This was enough to wake Dudley, but it also freaked him out, due to the fact that he screamed as he jumped about 2 feet in the air before landing on the floor with a dull thud.

"Ow!" Dudley said after he landed on the floor.

"OH! I didn't mean to startle you that bad, Dudley! Are you okay?" Kitty asked, getting out of the bed and hurrying to Dudley's side.

"I'm okay, but why did you have to go and yell in my ear like that?" Dudley asked.

"It's morning. Now let's see what today is..." Kitty said, checking the calendar. To her surprise, it was Thanksgiving!

"Dudley, today is Thanksgiving!" Kitty exclaimed.

"It is?" Dudley asked.

"Look at the calendar if you don't believe me!" Kitty told him. So Dudley looked at the calendar, and sure enough, Kitty was right!

"All right! I know what I'll be doing today!" Dudley exclaimed happily.

"If you're talking about watching the football games, those aren't coming on until later! Besides, we have to fix breakfast, and then we'll need to start fixing the turkey, as well as the other foods. Except for the pies, since the ones that needed to be baked were done yesterday after work." Kitty told him.

"Oh, right! First things first!" Dudley said.

At that moment, Dudley and Kitty's children, George, Molly, and Summer, came running into their parents' room.

"What's going on in here?" George asked, sounding like he had just woken up.

"You're not fighting, are you?" Summer asked nervously.

"Is something wrong?" Molly asked.

"Everything is fine, kids. In fact, today is Thanksgiving!" Kitty told the kids.

"What's Thanksgiving?" the children asked in unison.

Before Kitty could answer their question, Dudley said, "Oh, that's easy! It's the day to watch football games and eat lots of food until you can't eat anymore!"

"Dudley, that's not what Thanksgiving is! I'll tell them what it is!" Kitty said, and so she told the kids what Thanksgiving really was.

"Can we have breakfast now?" the kids asked.

"After you guys get a bath." Kitty told them.

"Why do we need a bath?" the children asked, wondering why they needed a bath so early in the morning.

"Because we've got family coming over today, and we want you to look nice!" Kitty responded.

"Oh, okay." the kids said.

"What about Keswick and Claire? Aren't they coming?" Dudley asked.

"No, they're spending the holiday with their families, as usual." Kitty reminded him.

"Oh yeah." Dudley said. Then he asked, "Are we getting a shower together after the kids get their bath?"

"Yes, Dudley." Kitty told him.

"All right!" Dudley said, as he liked showering with Kitty.

Okay, so that's the end of Chapter 1, but Chapter 2 is on the way, so stay tuned!