One Foot on a Banana Peel

I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and has had sufficient time to sleep off the effects of too much turkey.  We’ve had a nice holiday.  Thursday and Friday were spent with family, including Tim’s sister and her family from Alabama.  Their oldest son, who I’ve always had a special relationship with, also came and that was a surprize.  He brought his wife of 2 years.  We hadn’t met her before and were thrilled to find her a lovely, shy girl……and she’s pregnant!  I’m going to be a great-aunt. 

The same sister’s youngest son (who recently put us all through a cancer scare-he’s ok) is a mere 4 weeks older than Megan and it became very apparent on this visit that the two of them are cut from the same cloth.  They don’t look alike, but oh my, do they ever act alike and move alike.  They like the same things, hate the same things and they both have A.D.D. and struggle with school.  They have always been connected.  There was a time when they were not quite 2, that we put them in a playpen for a nap.  When we checked on them later, they were lying on their backs sound asleep but with his thumb in her mouth and her thumb in his mouth.

Megan has had a ball with all this family togetherness (it is unfortunately a rare thing) and stayed with all her cousins until Saturday evening.  The downside to all the time spent with them is country girl that she is, she is enamored of all things related to Alabama and is convinced it is heaven on earth.  She is also speaking with an exaggerated (and annoying) southern accent.

I had the house to myself on Saturday so spent the morning cleaning and moving some things around in preparation for Christmas.  Normally, I put up the tree and decorations the day after Thanksgiving, but that went out the window this year.  Even if I hadn’t spent Black Friday shopping with my sisters-in-law and nieces, the livingroom remodel still isn’t finished.  We’re getting there, though.  Saturday evening we went to Lowe’s after Tim got home and bought the flooring.  Yesterday he put it down.  Sweet!  He still has to put the baseboard and 1/4 round down, but that’s it.  I should be able to start putting the tree up tomorrow.

Megan had a friend spend the night and they, along with both dogs, are snuggled up into a big pile on the air mattress in the livingroom.  Obviously, there is no school today.  It’s the first day of deer hunting season, which ranks right up there in these parts with Christmas, Thanksgiving and July Fourth.  If school was in session there’d be no boys in class and most of the male teachers would call off as well.

I am off to thumb through cookie recipes since my sisters-in-law decided I can make all the cookies for Christmas.