A Long Post About a Long Weekend

Michael was supposed to get home on Tuesday but due to circumstances that should NOT have been beyond his control, he didn’t quite make it. The weather was atrocious so he may not have made it, anyway. He came in on Wednesday afternoon and is leaving any minute now.

We spent Wednesday evening baking pie. We only did pumpkin because we knew it would be just the two of us and that he’d be leaving soon. We still ended up with too much pie.

Thursday we started out watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and then proceeded to prepare Thanksgiving dinner. Again…way too much food for just the two of us. We knew we were going to have dessert with his sisters so we had a piece of pie for lunch. Hehe The wind was howling the entire day and I kept finding myself praying that the lights would not go out. The house was literally shaking from the strong gusts of wind.

We had a nice visit with his sisters. Mikayla was playing with Michael for over an hour before she came over to me and asked, “Aunty Kerri, who’s that guy behind you?”  We watched the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving program with them before we left. It seemed to be Craig’s first time seeing Peanuts on TV. He said, “Wow! This is even funnier than the comic!”

Friday we spent the entire day decorating. We put lights up in the windows, around the roof, around the living room ceiling, and all down the hallway. We also put the tree up, but didn’t decorate it until last night. I set out a few of my musical figures but still need to put out my bears.

Saturday we were supposed to go to Town for the day. We ended up spending a night over there. We bought the ingredients I’ll need to make cookies and fudge, my 2005 Christmas bears, a few Christmas gifts, and went to see Harry Potter.

Yesterday after returning from Town, we decorated the tree. Space Cadet brought Lucione and Lindsey over to visit their uncle. They played I Spy with my Christmas tree ornaments. They’ve been doing that ever since they were old enough to recognize the characters. My tree only has Disney ornaments and balls. The only items on the tree that are not Disney are the tree tops.

Yes, that’s tree topS, as in more than one. When Lucione was about 7 years old, she made an angel tree top for us. She drew it, cut it out, put it together, and wrapped it all by herself. It took her almost an entire day. When we bought the star for the tree this weekend, I hadn’t intended to use the angel this year. But after I looked at it, I didn’t have to heart to keep her packed away. Now she sits on top of the star.

Michael just called. There are no planes flying today so he’ll have to get on the ferry. That will get him to Town too late for his flight. I hope they can put him on a different flight. He’s never been late returning to work. I’m not sure what they’ll do.

Now that I’m back at work, I’ve got to start testing again because the semester is over in 3 weeks. I’ve just administered the first of a total of 19. If all goes as planned (it never does), I’ll have it all complete by December 13th. December 16th is our last day before Winter Break and Michael comes home on the 20th.

This will be his longest trip away, but when he comes back he’ll be here for 2 weeks. I was wanting to go down and visit him in January, but now I’m not so sure that’s going to work out. He already has his tickets home. We’ll have to see if the company will be willing to change it.

I’ve got 2nd grade now, they need my attention so I better get going. I’ll post some pictures soon. If I have your address, be on the look-out for a card from me soon. :o)