No Leftovers, Full Plate

Hey, Amanda.

It's noon and I haven't gone to the gym, there is no bacon in the oven, and I'm not sipping mimosas, but I am having a good day. Just changing things up a bit.

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Now it's 4:30, and I'm taking a break from decorating for Christmas to finish this post I from which I somehow got called away--probably by my own ADD...Looked at a bowl and decided I needed to put it in storage; then thought, may as well get some Christmas things and get started decorating while I'm down there; oh, wait, let me look up my notes from last Christmas first; then remembered to finish bleaching down my kitchen counters...You know how that goes, don't you? Oops, here it goes again. Just decided to take some sauce out of the freezer to get it simmering on the stove to have for dinner a little later. LOL

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Back again. Going to try to finish my post without any other distractions, well, without giving in to any other distractions.

It has been a busy, but good weekend. Thanksgiving at my cousin H's was great! There were 52 of us this year, and a good time was had by all. I stayed overnight, and enjoyed that part of the holiday too--a tradition that had lapsed the last couple of years. All the girls who were staying overnight with me (S, A, and my cousin K's daughter J are all around the same age as my cousin H's youngest daughter M) set up my bed with a tiara on the pillow and their air mattresses on the floor at the foot of my bed. How cute is that?!? In the morning I was the first up so I sat and enjoyed my coffee while reading in their sun room, which I adore. Eventually everyone else got up and D made cinnamon French toast and the girls went upstairs to play and H, D, and I had Bloody Marys in the sun room. I stayed until 2.

Friday night, after the Black Friday shopping crowds were long gone, I did a little shopping and went out for my weekly steak. Then Saturday (yesterday) I went out for a late lunch with my aunt and in the evening went to my sister M's for another impromptu family get together. Today I've been putzing around getting some decorating done, since I don't have next weekend to do it.

W decided he wanted to come down Saturday (yay!), and then go to his niece's graduation Sunday--even though he knows I’m going to Boston without him on Sunday for my annual getaway with C. I'll drop him off Sunday morning at the U of H before I head to Boston. He'll get a ride back with his aunt, and we'll get together for a drink later Sunday night or Monday afternoon in Boston, at which point I’ll also give him back his bags.

But back to reality and/or the tasks at hand. I have a week of work between now and then and my decorating to finish and some laundry to do. Oh, and that sauce on the stove!

Hope all is well with you.
Love you,
Barb