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Hi Colleen,
I think most of the showers that I’ve gone to have had finger foods too. It’s so much easier to serve and eat those types of things.
Jenny and Adam didn’t catch cold but Jenny says every muscle in her body aches. I give them a lot of credit for running that distance. It’s more than I could ever do.
By the time the kids went out trick or treating later in the day the rain had stopped and it actually even got a few degrees warmer. They’re still little so they last for an hour at most and then are ready to go home.
We have gone to the grill side in the Japanese restaurant when we were with other people. But since it was just the two of us we sat on the table side rather than be seated at a grill with 8 strangers and plus this way we could sit across from each other and talk which you wouldn’t do on the grill side with a bunch of other people at the table.
Did your grandkids get to trick or treat? I hope so-I always remember looking forward to that when I was a kid.
We are having weather in the 70’s until the weekend when it will go back to 50’s. This getting dark so early is for the birds-the crazy cardinals in fact! lol I really do not like the long nights of winter.
GailBarbara,
Maybe Jerry’s Mom will have an opinion on where she wants to go next and if she prefers a senior home maybe her son will listen and comply. I cannot think no matter how independent that she is that she would want to go back home alone. I hope she continues to progress.
Maybe you will have to learn how to meditate for those nights when you are wide awake and staring at the ceiling at 3 A.M. I think we all have some experience with that. That’s probably why we need to nap in the afternoons.
I get my stitches out this afternoon right before Greg gets his teeth cleaned-it’s like dueling Norusis’s at the dentist’s office this afternoon. Rocky is still doing pretty good for 16. We have taken to cooking him up some chicken and some ground beef to add to his dog food because for awhile there he wasn’t that interested in eating much-so this keeps him looking in his bowl. He doesn’t like to eat by himself in the mudroom anymore though-that’s where all the dogs used to eat together-so I brought his bowl out into the family room so that he can be by us while he eats. it must be hard for him as he always was used to having other dogs around and now he’s the only one. It’s almost a year since Belle died. Sometimes I still cry for her and Abby.
I remember how close you used to feel to Lisa before her accident. it’s odd how much things have changed since then. Like she had some sort of personality change. It has to be hard to watch and wonder where all this is headed and not wanting your son to be hurt in the process.
GailHi Adele,
I did get the throw from the Q. The item number is H207151 but I checked and all three different patterns are on wait list. I will sit on the couch and use it this winter just to annoy Greg the Grinch. You know I hadn’t been in Pier 1 in a while and I was just blown away by all the cute things-especially the Christmas stuff. But I’m trying not to add anything to my already bulging cabinets or my Christmas decorations-so I just went in got what I wanted for my gift and left. But the temptation of online is still there. However the stuff does look a lot cuter in person than it does online so that’s a good thing.
Hope you finished putting away the Halloween village. You are very efficient. If it was me it would probably stay up until the Christmas stuff comes out. I was very lazy this year and did no Halloween decorating what so ever. Since it’s just the two of us so much of the time it hardly seems worth it anymore. When we first moved into this house I decorated for every holiday and for Christmas there was something for just about every room. But there were a lot more people coming and going then and now it just seems like a lot of work for not much payback plus it’s not so easy to bring the things up from the basement and put them away anymore. I can understand now why my Mom had her little tabletop tree once she was alone.
GailToday I am thankful for healthy children and grandchildren.
Congratulations to the Kansas City Royals the new World Series Champions. Although it would have been so much better if it were the Cubs.
Oh my goodness, Barbara! What an awful thing to have happen to Jerry’s mother. That is just terrible. I’m glad to hear that she is doing well after all that and I will definitely keep her in my prayers. I know when you are older these traumas are more difficult to recover from but she sounds like she has been blessed. However, I don’t know if psychologically I would want to go back to the same living situation. I would be afraid to be alone again. I am so glad that they caught the jerk and I hope that he gets the book thrown at him-preying on the elderly like that-what a horrible cowardly person!!! You have certainly had a traumatic week.
I get my stitches out tomorrow. My regular dentist won’t be in the office but his associate will take them out and then right after me Greg has an appointment. I’m just finishing my antibiotic today so I hope the infection will be cleared up.
Can’t believe that neither you nor Adele haven’t ever made a green bean casserole-a staple of the holiday table since the 50’s I think. lol I think because it’s so easy and quick to put together. However, I guess now people are looking for healthier alternatives for their holiday vegetables. I make it basically because it is about the one vegetable that I can put on the table that the whole family will eat. I also liked to make a 7 layer salad for holidays but Brent and Kim would never eat that.
I hope that your MIL will continue to improve and today I am grateful that she is doing so well.
Hugs to your family,
GailOne thing that’s nice is you don’t have to have separate wardrobes for summer and winter-and no heavy coats and boots hats and gloves. I like the change of seasons just not the extreme cold and snow. We changed clocks last night so now it is almost dark already too and it is 5 o’clock.
GailHey Adele-We’re over on the new page for November.
Hi Adele,
Hope your kids liked the ghosts. I think next on your agenda should be those s’mores cupcakes that they keep on showing on the King Arthur site. They look so good but I know that I will never take the time to bake them.
Actually that light gray sweatshirt could go with just about any color. Black, red, darker gray, blue jeans. Except I know that you like to wear the same color top and bottom-but I think those terry crops with the zipper did come in the gray at one time. I wear different color tops and bottoms and sometimes I wear the same-just depends on my mood. I figure when you are shaped like a beach ball with arms and legs wearing all one color is not going to elongate me in any case so I wear whatever combo that appeals to me on that particular day. I’m one wild and crazy girl!!!
Yes, the peanuts throw came in three different patterns. One with all the peanuts characters, one that was like a comic strip and the one I got that had Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Yesterday I was all ready for Halloween too with my Quacker. I had a different spiderweb shirt from a few years back with clear rhinestones on the spider and the web and Kirk’s Folly Halloween earrings. Now I am pulling out my general fall themed Quaker clothes with leaves and just regular pumpkins-not Jack O’ Lanterns and a few with apples.
Do you have Pier 1 by you. I know how much you like cute dishes and I went in there yesterday looking for a holiday themed wine glass for a gift and they have the cutest winter and holiday dishes and glassware. I really wanted one of everything-even though I don’t have enough room to hold what I already own. It’s a good thing Greg was with me to keep me on task. I have the hardest time not ordering that lock and lock TSV that they have every year with the cute gift bags but I have no one to give them to as I don’t really make home made gifts. I did think of you when those were on though because I figured you could use them as your table gifts and put something inside them since you bake so much. By the way-how is Aizen’s stocking coming along?
We met Jenny and family for breakfast this morning. I look across the table and there is Piper with her spoon and one of those little jelly containers eating the jelly for the toast with a spoon. That just cracked me up. Then she wanted to order some coffee. And she and Lachlan each ordered a cup of soup for breakfast. Crazy kids! lol
Now we know that if we need to punish Greg or Gary we just have to run Peanuts movies on a loop. I guess that means neither of us will have a date for the new movie coming out. Maybe it’s a thing about guys whose first name begins with G not liking Peanuts. it’s downright un-American!!!
Gail
P.S. I just heard an advertisement for peanuts come on in the other room before football and Greg is groaning like Frankenstein’s monster watching it. lol -
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