1. We drove to the lake house yesterday. No one has been here since my mom fell right before Halloween, but everything was fine.
2. My parents have really great neighbors across the street. They keep an eye on the place and have a key, just in case (for example, just in case there's a tornado warning, as we have a basement and they don't). They turned on the heat and set the thermostat very low, so if the weather takes a dive, the pipes won't freeze.
3. Ordinarily, I am not a big fan of unseasonable weather, but the 70 degree day yesterday made for a really nice visit to Silver Dollar City last night to enjoy their spectacular light display. We didn't have to wear coats and hats and gloves, which meant I didn't have to carry anyone else's coats and hats and gloves when they didn't want to wear them.
5. Turkeys were on sale for 73 cents a pound, so I bought two for the freezer.
6. The College Boy is finished with finals and home for a whole month.
7. He brought his (REALLY BIG) tv home with him, carefully packing it in the original packaging for the trip, fretting over making sure it stayed upright, per warnings on the box, carried it inside the house, set it in the living room, next to a wing-back chair that contained one Ruby, and was in the process of carrying some things up to his room when there was a big WHOMP from the living room. He returned to find Ruby sitting on the arm of the chair and the tv jelly-side down on the floor next to her. Hysteria ensued, and he rushed the tv up to his room to make sure it still worked, vowing there would be one less cat in the house if it didn't. It did, and Ruby's place in the family is still secure.
8. Emma and I are enjoying the perks of Area Appreciation pricing and going to see a music show tonight. (Branson is known for its music shows, among other things.) This is a big deal, because we don't go to shows; that's for tourists, as far as we're concerned; besides, tickets are pretty pricey. She and I are going to see The Haygoods, whom we love, and we will wish my Person and her daughters were with us, because we never would have gone to see them the first time if it weren't for them. Two thankfuls for the price of one!
9. I don't have pneumonia. I do have bronchitis (its name is Dayn).
10. I didn't have to go to the doctor to get a diagnosis. We had our preschool Christmas program Thursday night, and Dayn the Cold, which started on Monday, had turned into Dayn the Horrid Cough and Dayn the Laryngitis. One of my preschool moms (yay for awesome preschool moms) is a nurse who is also studying to be a nurse practitioner. She brought her stethoscope to school the next morning and listened to my chest, pronounced that it was tight (it's been making a weird noise when I breathe), but it wasn't pneumonia. Whew!
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ReplyDeleteThose lights are beautiful! I think it's sweet that your kiddos enjoy cookie decorating--what a great tradition!
ReplyDeleteI hope you can breathe easy soon.
Your kiddos are still cute as a button ...love that they resort to old tradition! Hope you feel better soon...
ReplyDeleteI love the Ruby story, or is it a TV story, or a college boy story? I imagine Ruby perceived that TV in her space. Glad it turned out okay. We are going to visit a village in PA next week with beautiful lights. Hope my pictures turn out as well as yours. FEEL BETTER!
ReplyDeletehope your feeling better soon... the lights are gorgeous; I'm sure long island has areas like that I know a girl scout camp does something like that... and we have Jones beach light show ...but we get or make a cup of coffee, hot chocolate or tea to go get in our car and drive around the neighborhood... it's nice and cozy.
ReplyDeletelove that your kids still wanted to decorate a cookie and that the TV is fine and that Ruby lives to tell the story....
enjoy the show and feel better...rest, rest and drink plenty of fluids :)
I've been really enjoying our milder weather this December too - the fog not so much because laundry on the line does not dry in fog. I actually think it gets wetter.
ReplyDeleteBronchitis is better than pneumonia, but I hope all of it goes away for your holidays.
The lights are beautiful. We have a display here but I've never had much luck with taking night pictures.
I always loved light displays around this time of year. It's harder now that my vision has decreased, but they are still beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAh, mother's job is to hold her children's stuff.
:-)
Ooh, bronchitis isn't nice, but thankful it's not pneumonia. That's perspective right there.
Love your photos of Christmas lights.
ReplyDeleteOh, those college Christmas breaks! The best. No one came to spend a month with me this year so we descended on one of the girls for two weeks. We are now on the count down, and I don't think I will be ready to leave!