Life On The Other Side

Yesterday was quite lovely here in North Carolina and just right for having an early afternoon Thanksgiving meal. We ate our fill around 2 p.m. after a morning of watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and a couple of football games. Since I had spent most of the morning on my feet, I took a leisure two hour nap no doubt with the help of that tasty turkey. In fact, everyone fell victim to the turkey coma and we all got up in the early evening rested. That was followed by a second round of turkey but with a lot less of everything else since we made some sandwiches instead. A wonderful and relaxing first Thanksgiving with my new husband and in-laws. Today was followed with a little more turkey and a lot to drama due to a little accident my father-in-law experienced this morning. But he is doing well and patched up rather neatly.

I can’t believe we are now on the way to Christmas. We haven’t done much shopping yet though I did get a few gifts out of the way already. But the list is still long and we will need to plan our strategy in the coming weeks. I tend not to spend too much time in the malls or out shopping if I can help it. Sometimes it’s more convenient to shop via the Internet and there have been years that I’ve done that. I guess I better get my list together and figure out who’s been naughty (the hubs) and who’s been nice…