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Yay for puppies. Puppy breath!! ds

I feel for the teenaged granddaughter. Not always easy to be that age. Not always easy for the rest of the family too while they wait for the adolescent hormonal storm to pass. In our family, DS was the more dramatic one who grunted one word responses or answered many queries with I don't know. He's so pleasant now : )

Woke up to about 2 inches of snow and a bone chilling wind. DD is supossed to land at 8:30pm. So far her plane is still listed as on time. The snow stopped at the airport around 7am this morning, so all the runways are open again, and it's business as usual. But if there are dealys in the morning, it can throw off the schedule for the whole day. Even if she's late though, I'm sure she will get here sometime tonight.

My Mom texted me this morning and said she could not make it to Thanksgiving. I've been half expecting that, since she continues to be weak after her hospital visit. I called DB because he saw her yesterday just to confirm, and he said looking at her yesterday, he didn't think she would have the energy. So change of plans, DH, DD and I will bring them a meal late morning/early afternoon, and then we will arrive late to my Uncle's house after we spent a few hours with my parents. Prior to knowing this, I just made a pan of stuffed pasta shells for tonight's dinner. We'll pivot, and I'll bring that. We have the huge Costco pie (minus two pieces I had one for supper, and one for breakfast) I am making green bean casserole, and vegetarian stuffing for the crowd, but I'll bring some for my parents too. It's an unusual combination of food, but they will have a dinner.

There's a lot of feelings about Thanksgiving now. This will be the last one at my Uncle's house. My aunt and uncle are closing on a condo in an independent living community next week. The end of an era and so much family history. I was newly engaged when we started this tradition, and brought my fiancee and then new husband and my babies too, who were entertained by my young cousins (20 years younger than me). Then the young cousins grew up, and brought their new spouses and babies. And one of those babies is off to college next year! The youngest baby is now 3. She will be our last one at this particular gathering. There have been sledding parties, and talent shows, and walks around the lake. I never made it to the grown up table because my Mom and her siblings have lived such long lives, for which I have been so grateful. Only my beautiful grandparents have left us in all this time.

A few more things I need to do before DD arrives, like get the sheets for her bed out of the dryer and back onto her bed! While we saw her in September, she hasn't been "home" since June, and having either of them "home" just hits differently.

Happy Thanksgiving Eve, I hope everyone has a lovely day tomorrow in whatever form it takes.

Thanks for that suggestion! And maybe limit myself to an hour each session???? The office should only take one or two 'sessions', while the garage... well... that's a different story. My stuff, my dog stuff, Ron's stuff, all of Ron's teaching stuff!!!!!, my dad's stuff, ron's step mom's stuff.... it's all piled in our garage. That will take multiple sessions and a strong purging mentality.

I think I am getting to that point of having to have a set schedule for things around the house. It works really well for me with keeping the show dogs in trim. I have a very set routine for grooming each week. I'm also very good about getting to the gym for my workouts at around the same time each day. Seems that when things are a strong priority for me, I don't have much trouble getting them done. For a few weeks running I was doing vacuuming, dusting and general light housework on Thursdays. Last week I fell out of that because of vacation, and haven't dusted or vacuumed since we got back. I don't see myself doing it tomorrow, either... LOL

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Good day yesterday whi*****luded a bocce tournament in mid afternoon. Those younger kids can get the hang of a game like that pretty quickly. We played for almost 2 hours. The younger teen was still a bit sour because she wasn't as good as her brother but there was still good interaction.

I think today is the beach club again because it is the last really warm day. Tomorrow may be less sunny and the high Friday is projected to be 70.

DH's childhood friend arrives today to spend Thanksgiving with us tomorrow. He will stay in the hotel across the street from our community. Good thing as he goes to bed really early and gets up at about 4 in the morning. He tends to bang around like a bull in a china shop when he gets up. He also starts making phone calls at about 7 am, talking loudly and having it on speakerphone. I actually think he may be a bit hard of hearing because he is so loud and has his phone volume way up, but could be that is just him.

This morning we will do our Justice walk, then I have to get my first shots of Evenity, the drug I am on for osteoporosis for the next year.

Have a willing Wednesday!

Your friends must be amazing scrabble players - hence the shark nickname!

No, bocce was not on the original spreadsheet but we added it LOL.