Friday, November 30, 2007

Winding Down or Gearing Up?

Now that Thanksgiving is over, I'm ready to wind down. But instead, I think it's more like gearing up for Christmas. Whatever, this weekend will be far busier than last.
What a neat thing happened this week. One of the many members at SBF left me a message. To my amazement she was from a town about 30 miles from where I live. But that's not the most amazing part...she recognized my son-in-law on one of my pages. It seems her husband was in my daughter's wedding! It truly is a small world.
Take it easy & enjoy this season of peace & joy.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Thanksgiving

What a wonderful tradition & holiday we celebrate this week. I think Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays, this year is no exception. We will be just our family this year (sometimes we have extended family & friends) -- 4 generations together for the day.
It will be exciting to have our son visiting for several days, usually it's just a quick 1-day thing when he comes up or we go down there.
We are much smaller at this point than we have been in the past. I think we were up to 26-28 people or more & had to use the fellowship hall at the church, now we're just going to be 15 & can easily handle it at home. With people moving away & others vanishing for the cold winter months, we have definitely dwindled.
Of course there will be lots of food -- the usual fair, turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes & pumpkin pie...plus Dave is smoking another small turkey. Actually this has become a newer tradition the last several years, started I believe by brother-in-law Lew.
There's so much to be thankful for, but mostly I'd say family wins hands down!!!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Time Flies!

My goodness, time really does fly!
Jillian is already 2 weeks & 1 day old.
What a busy weekend (I think they all will be that way until the end of the year)
It was exciting to celebrate Veterans Day with my husband (a VietNam Vet) & my father (a WWII Vet) & my daughter's friend who was in the service as well, (not sure what branch), not to mention the fact that we were celebrating my parents 67th -- YES THAT'S 67TH -- wedding anniversary. Now that's a long time!!!