Yes, this is me procrastinating, but I’ll pretend I’m doing it to warm up my typers, and that’ll make it okay,  right?

Thanksgiving with Mom was wonderful, I’m so grateful she came out here and it made the vacation for I think all of us, but most especially the puppies who get many more scraps when she’s around than they do from just Matt and I.

We picked her up Monday night and went to Costco, which was expensive but our freezer became stuffed with food, so we’re just grateful…again.  It’s the theme of the week anyways.  Mom and I shopped all day Tuesday, we got goodies, Christmas gifts and ridiculous amounts of food, and new cushions for the couches and it was fun despite the length of the day in and out of the cold and mistakenly thinking I’d lost my purse in a crowded store!  (Turned out it had just had stuff dropped over it in the cart, thank god.  We cooked all day Wednesday and Thursday, and then dinked around Friday.  Thanksgiving was lovely, we did up the table and had all the nummy food and sparkling cider in fancy glasses and it was just really wonderful to have Mom there.  It snowed Friday night and we had to leave for the airport at 6.30 in the AM, so that was dark, cold and scary, but we got there just fine and Mom got home earlier in the day, so she didn’t have to drive home in the dark, and Matt and I went home and tried not to sleep all day.

All in all, best Turkey Day Vacation ever, and not just because it was a lot longer than the Oregon school versions.  And, now that it’s done and I accomplished almost nothing I should probably get to work.  🙂

yours,

Alaina