Monday afternoon

Hi everyone! I finally made it back to post. I have been reading posts all week but didn't post myself. It sounds like we all had nice Thanksgiving days. We all went to Karen's for the day. Jer does most of the cooking so I just had to bring dessert. We had a great time. There were 14 of us this year. Friday was a rest day. Then Sat. we had our annual Cookie bake day. The grandmoms and kids do the cut-out cookies and Karen and Jer make all the dough for several kinds of cookies. We had food, fun, family, and football and cookies! Sunday I just vegged and watched more football. I did not go out shopping on Black Friday. I have been doing some shopping online but will get to the stores at some point.

Since our combo vcr/dvd quit on us and we got a new dvd player, we have been replacing some of our favorite movies that were on vhs and watching them. Don and I watched Gone With the Wind on Thanksgiving night and Friday night. That is my favorite movie of all time. I have been getting some good deals on Amazon. I have also been doing some reading. I finally finished Gone Girl which I did not like at all. I continued reading to see how it would end and was not happy with the ending. I would have to say this is the worst book I read all year. I am now reading Enemy Way, another of the books in the Ella Clah series by Aimee and David Thurlo. It is good. I have The Perfect Hope to read next.

Donna H--we are to get a little snow overnight but nothing like you have already. We have to wait to age 62 to apply for early Social Security here.

Trudy--I will continue to keep your friend in my prayers. That is great that you were able to spend Thanksgiving with her.

Amanda--have fun at your reunion. Those years do go by quickly.  :-( The weather was beautiful on T-Day. Now it is cold again but still sunny right now.

Donna M--I loved the picture of the vineyard. Reminds me of the movie A Walk in the Clouds which is one of my favorites.

Cady--hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Is your dad doing better now?

Margie--sounds like your day was good on T-Day.

Sandi--I was told my first SS check would arrive in Feb. so it takes about 90 days to 120 days. You did have a quiet Thanksgiving. I really like just going to Karen's. I used to be the one who did all the work and I would not like to do that now.

I think that catches me up for now. This week will be busy with house-cleaning as the kiddos are coming to stay over on Sat. and the house needs a good cleaning.

Have a good week everyone!

Mary