What a wonderful week--truly it's a time to reflect and give thanks. First of all, I was delighted to see Monday and Tuesday come and go. I worked as hard and fast as I could go at school so that I could leave caught up and with my desk cleared. I don't like to leave on vacations with projects left behind and having to go back to unfinished tasks when I return to work. By 3 o'clock, I was ready for the official holiday to begin.
Bryan came home from campus on Friday night with his truck loaded down with stuff and Micah and Rhyne arrived Monday night about 8:30. If nothing else, when I have my entire family at home, I have everything I need. There is no feeling like it in the world. Since our NOLA children got a late start Monday, we ate about 6:00, and then, I pulled the roast out of the oven for the second time which had continued to stay warm and served dinner at 9:00. Tuesday morning, I put chili in the crock pot before leaving for work. Everyone was in and out so much on different schedules, chili was being dipped at different times all day. Aren't crock pots wonderful?
Wednesday morning, I sipped coffee for a while in a quiet atmosphere and enjoyed the leisure time. Micah was up before too long, we dressed, and away we went on our traditional shopping spree. We made it to Hobby Lobby, the Mall, TJ Maxx, and Wal-Mart. We had to get back home to snap a family photo and get to Grandmother's and Papaw's house for our family's Thanksgiving meal. Our meal was wonderful; the bar was filled with a smorgasbord of tasty delights. I don't think Mom could have possibly cooked one more dish. It was delicious; if she is my mom, she is the best cook in the county. She is the queen of "cornbread dressing." Even at church for the fall harvest meal, everyone has come to expect that she will make the dressing. We had dressing, of course, chicken, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, white butter beans, corn, hot rolls, fried apples, tomatoes, mince meat pie, pumpkin pie, and Oreo dessert. I hope I didn't leave anything out.
Thursday, Collin was off and he and I were up fairly early to enjoy our coffee while the house was still quiet. We enumerated many of our blessings shared over the year once again. Our NOLA children were leaving to spend the remainder of the holiday with the Putman's, so activity at our house began to change a bit. Collin and Bryan spent the day blowing, mulching, and ridding our yard of it's thousands of fallen dried leaves. We had put our Christmas tree up in spurts on the previous Sunday, so I began dragging in the boxes of remaining house decorations and began getting us ready for the next holiday. When the guys called it quits and came in, I quit too, and we all got ready to travel to Brookland to have yet another Thanksgiving meal with Collin's mom and dad. Mamaw Joyce had a wonderful meal as well. She served ham with dressing and yummy vegetables.
Friday and Saturday, I continued to clean and decorate our house for Christmas. I finished the task complete with outside lighting. Saturday afternoon, Micah came back to the house for a little bit, and since we didn't have time to shop at Kohl's on Wednesday, you guessed it; back to town we went for one final outing. Back home from a short little shopping spree, we said goodbye for their return trip home.
What a wonderful week. Time spent with family, lots of food, and lots of shopping. Collin even got in a little deer hunting and snagged a trophy--an 8-point buck. Tomorrow all activities return to normal, but now we can all look forward to Christmas.
Marcia
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