Thanksgiving and I'm staying up late.

 

Hello Nice People,

          Oh no!!!, I feel so bad.  I haven't  posted an entry for 2 weeks, and I check in here and find 15 comments to my last post.  AND three Marie Antoinette Awards.  Thank you Karen, Joyce and  Skip and  Vick; I don't know what to say.  Wow, this is almost as good as my  Chicken Chronicles  award from Kelly.  I feel like Sally Field when she said,   "You like me,  you really like me."  

            I tried to get back sooner but something always came up in the past few weeks.  A wedding shower and then last Saturday, we had  the wedding to go to.   That, along with work, I feel like I haven't had a moment to breathe.  But tonite, here I am.  And you have my undivided attention.  It is 11:30 PM and I have a turkey in the oven that has to come out at 1 AM.  So I will be propping my eyes open for the next hour and a half.  Of course Hubby just went to bed.  Somehow, men have the best of all worlds.  Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.  I will be up early.  It's crazy.  On work days, I drag myself out of bed and off to work.  but on days off, I am up at 5 AM.  Ready to face a new day.  I love the early mornings when I don't have to work.  I enjoy my coffee and the morning paper with Fox and Friends on the TV.  Its the BESTEST time of the day.

Its been a cold end of November, and of course hubby has been working on his wood pile. 

  If he's not stacking wood, he's raking leaves.

  There's  an orange cat somewhere in those leaves.  Thats Sherwin Williams.

  He sleeps on top of an expensive doll in an antique doll coach.  Why NOT!?

        

               The turkey temperature is 170 degrees.  10 more degrees and I can go to bed.  What can I talk about?  The wedding?   Hmmmm......well it was a beautiful wedding.  I counted 18 tables of 12.  Wow thats a lot of people.  The Groom was my brothers grandson.  And I hadn't seen my brothers SON for many many many years.  It was just one of those things where you lose touch.   One day, I just picked up the phone and said lets get together.   That was about 5 or 6 years ago, and now we DO keep in touch.  I visited one of my brothers sons in Virginia and he and his family came here.   His brother here in Jersey invited us to his sons wedding.   The bride and groom were so friendly and kind.    He sure has raised nice kids, and I am sorry I missed them growing up. But he's probably wondering, "Where did this Aunt come from?"

                The turkey is 175 degrees.

Here is daughter Melody and my Grandson Nick.  When did he get so  tall?

 

Nick is the happiest kid.  He never has a bad day.  Nick has a handicap,  Apraxia of Speech.  Even though he is very hard to understand, he gets his point across.  Yippee, the turkey is 180 degrees.  Gonna put that stinker out in the enclosed porch and I am outta here.   

                                                       Nite All,