Tis the Season

Wow.  I haven't posted since Thanksgiving???  I guess things may have been a bit busy here.  : )

Thanksgiving was awesome!!!!  It was also Chris's birthday, so before we ate, we did his birthday thing.   No sooner had we gotten done with the birthday event of the day, when I happened to ask Eric if he had found out anything more about something that I can't tell you about yet!  Sorry.... it's just not totally a done deal yet, so I can't tell.  As soon as he knows and I know, then you will know.

However, Eric and Candice had some news that I can share!  I'm gonna be a Grandma!!!!  Have I mentioned that on Facebook yet?  : )   No definite due date for that event yet, but sometime next mid to late summer, there will be yet another precious person joining our family.  What a blessing to learn about on Thanksgiving!!!!

We had the pre and post Thanksgiving dinner festivities at Mom's house, across the way.   Over here, at our house, the big ol' table was full to bursting with people and food and thankfulness and happiness and joy and blessings.  It was truly an awesome, awesome Thanksgiving here, and across the way!

The day after Thanksgiving, Bruce, the boys and I headed to the Flatlands.  We stopped not long before we got to Bode and picked up a UHaul.  Believe it or not, we still had/have things in Bode!  The garage at our old house was full of "stuff".  All of my Christmas decorations were still in the basement.  Bruce still had furniture up there.   I cannot believe that we filled an entire UHaul and still had to leave a few things in storage.  Geesh!  We have way, way, way too much "stuff"!

I wish I could say that it was great to see family up there, too, but I can't.  I could spend the next year blogging daily about the issues with Bruce's girls, but I won't.   I saw none of the girls.  Bruce did get to see Andrea.   I saw Taylor and Aidyn, but didn't get to talk to them, except to learn that Taylor calls me "Dawn" now and not "Grandma".    For all of our blessings, that is one area we are not so blessed in.  And at this point, I'm not even sure what to do to start to relieve all of the stress that we all feel.  Prayers and hope.  And maybe a wish for a Christmas miracle.

Anyhoooooo, once we got that UHaul back here to the River Hills we had to unload the darn thing and all of that "stuff".  We don't have a garage here.  So, all of that "stuff" had to come into the house.  Sigh.  That was a week ago.  Finally, today, we got to the point where the livingroom is actually a living room again.  The room between the kitchen and the diningroom  (I seriously do not know what to call that room) is now cleared out enough that one can walk through the room without stepping over a box or a weight set.  The diningroom currently has 16 chairs in it, another unassembled diningroom table, and boxes and boxes and boxes of more "stuff".  The kitchen has loads of boxes sitting on the floor.  The laundry room, well the poor laundry room, never recover!  Since there were clothes and blankets and coats and fabric and "stuff" that had to be washed.  For a while there was a pile of dirty laundry in there that was as high as the washer and dryer and at least as wide as they are deep.  Length-wise, the dirty laundry had the lead in that race!  I am making good progress in that area, but good grief!

On top of all of that, I worked full days all last week.  (Except for Wed. afternoons when we close at noon anyway).   That made me have a whole lot more on my plate than normal, so not much got done as far as the piles of stuff in the house. 

So, there is no Christmas tree up here yet.  I did get a few decorations out in the livingroom today,  but it's a far, far cry from where things usually are around here by this time of year.  Maybe I should be hoping and wishing that my Christmas miracle is simply that I am able to get prepared for Christmas at all this year!  (Nah, not really, I'd much rather have peace with family than have a tree for Christmas).

Last night we gathered at a local establishment to share a meal and celebrate Peg's birthday.  I could probably count back and figure out just how many birthdays Peg and I have celebrated together, but I'm not sure I can count that high!  heheee.  We had a great time with good friends.

On a side note, Peg's cousin in Georgia and her family were involved in a horrible car accident this past Friday night.  Peg's cousin, Ellen, is ok, but Ellen's husband and children were hurt.  The worst injured is one of the boys, who is a medically induced coma due to severe head injuries.  Please pray for that family, for healing and peace.  

Today, I've not been feeling the best.  A touch of tummy troubles has kept me home and not feeling well at all today.  Thankfully, there is football on to give me something to do!  : )

Time for me to get off of here, for now.  I hope that you are all enjoying your holiday season, with Peace and Love and Joy.