The DDA Trouble Free Zone Part 31

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Oh my

Mother just phoned. They spent the night int he parking lot at the grocery store because it was "too late" to go to my sister's house at 1 AM. My sister was EXPECTING them!!!
They got a motel room but it was too smoky, so the OBVIOUS solution was to park in the lot of the grocery store near MY house and sit there for several hours. With the guinea pig.
I just buzzed them in the gate, so I have to go sort this out!

 

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Denise -- strange as it sounds, it suddenly hit me yesterday that Mom won't be here for Thanksgiving. I guess I've been too busy to really think about turkey day. I got very emotional after Randy and my Dad left my office (they met there) to go to Grandparents day. Then when I got home, all of our outside lights are up on the house and fence, and I got all emotional again. (she loved lights and the whole Christmas season.) I just never know when it will hit me. The grief has begun to ease over the last year, but I can sure tell I have a long way to go.

 

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Stephanie enjoy your visit with your sister & good luck with the BF shopping.

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

My sister is here! We sat up waaaayyyy to long last night, looking at Oprah's Favorite things, making our Thanksgiving dinner list and just catching up. We talk several times every week, but there is nothing like sipping wine in your pajamas and fuzzy slippers and just talking and laughing.

We have to go find a fresh turkey. A frozen one won't have time to thaw. I can use my free turkey coupon to get $10.00 off my order. I can't believe with as much as we have to do today, my sister is still in bed!!! Crack of noon girl here...

We are working on our Black Friday shopping strategy. Since the outlet mall has midnight maddness, it has added an entire new dimension to our maddness!!!

I will catch back up. I'm back at Bernadette's first day of her trip report!!!

Well Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!

 

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Safe travels & Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Bob and I are off to Detroit for the holiday (and leaving an hour early at that!) See everyone over the weekend!

 

[UP Disney]

Glad you've escaped without the pig! Hope your DS has some quality with his Grandmother on Saturday.

The week isn't over yet! After all, Grandma and DS are going to be spending alone time together at the house. That means Grandma has time alone with DS to convince him how much fun Guinea Pigs are.

 

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Thanks for the heads up Lindsay!

Good for you, Janet! Just a note of caution - Overstock does charge restocking fees on all their items, I believe. You can return things, but you won't get the full value back that you paid. (I found this out the hard way when I wanted to return a book I bought from them for a Christmas present last year - needless to say, it wasn't worth returning the book for the refund amount they were offering!)

 

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Great picture Deb!

 

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Look forward to hearing if you all liked it, enjoy!

We are off to see Enchanted.

Safe travels to all venturing out! Enjoy your Thanksgiving!


Tia,
I bow to you... What a recap!

 

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Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Tia. And to everyone! It sounds like you are making progress. I am too. I like this coming home in the middle of the day. I get a lot done! Our pumpkin cookies are frosted. I've got the dough made and chilling for Pecan Cups. The filling mixture is prepared too so all I have to do is put them in a pan and bake. Now I need to think about dinner.

Ok, what are Pecan Cups?

 

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Afternoon all.

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, I miss my dad.

 

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Happy Thanksgiving to you Denise & your family!

Hi, everyone. Just stopping in to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! Safe travels to all, and enjoy your families (if you can tolerate them...)
Vicki, Marci, Heidi and anyone else remembering lost loved ones, may you have peace.
Jen, you and your grandfather and family are in my prayers.
Glynis, I will be praying for you especially on Friday with your grandmother's funeral.

 

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Congratulations!

Milestone!!!

ETA: SHE'S BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Cool! Have fun with the sleepover, hope they don't drive you crazy lol

Well I made it home before the mad traffic crunch hit. I stopped and got Nicholas his birthday present. Here is what he is getting.

The sleepover is still on for Friday night, Nov. 30. He invited 4 boys. I still don't know who all is coming yet.

After we got home we made the pumpkin pie. Do you know how much longer things take to do when you have 4 extra hands 'helping'??? It's in the oven now. I'm debating whether to take them to Enchanted later on or just stay home and hang out. We still have to frost our cookies we made the other day. I'm waiting for my butter to soften and then we will get started on that.

 

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When she was dancing her second dance, towards the end she threw herself across the laps of some "gents" in the audience. Those were the brothers.

Apparently, there is some talk of getting Donny to do Dancing with the Stars. Don't know when, but he said he would definitely be interested.

Now, that I would not miss! Donny Osmond every week!

 

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The sad part is that I just had to re-read it as I couldn't remember half of what I posted.

 

[Glynis]

Glynis... I'm so sorry about your grandmother. I had to go back to see what the news was. So very, very sorry.

Thanks, Stephanie.

 

[Glynis]

Tia, what an AWESOME recap!

Also, I received my ornament today. Thanks Tia! I will have to post pics later.

Leighanna received hers too. Thanks Mary! She loves all of it!

I did get my packages mailed out today! I sent priority mail, so you all should hopefully receive them by Friday, Saturday at the latest!

Off to get a couple of things done before Turkey day!

I still don't know if I have to work tomorrow. They said that we will get a call if we don't have to go in. So far, no call!

We normally do Thanksgiving at our house, but since MIL works at Wal-mart, and DW works retail too, they both have to be up at the crack of dawn to face the crowds! I think to simplify everything we will be eating Thanksgiving dinner in a restaurant. Not my idea, but sometimes my ideas don't count!

Have a great day DDA!

Glad the package arrived safely!

Sometimes I think a Thanksgiving dinner in a restaurant would be nice. No cooking, and no cleanup!

My brother's in-laws used to cook Thanksgiving for their whole family. Now that all their kids are grown and gone, they go to Mesquite, Nevada to eat at one of the buffets and to gamble. There are times that really appeals. Well, not so much the gambling, but the buffet.

 

[Glynis]

Afternoon all.

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, I miss my dad.

Heidi!

 

[Glynis]

Hi, everyone. Just stopping in to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! Safe travels to all, and enjoy your families (if you can tolerate them...)
Vicki, Marci, Heidi and anyone else remembering lost loved ones, may you have peace.
Jen, you and your grandfather and family are in my prayers.
Glynis, I will be praying for you especially on Friday with your grandmother's funeral.

Thanks, Denise. The funeral now is set for next Wednesday. The California relatives needed some time to arrange schedules, so I've got some time. My mom asked if my sister, me and 2 cousins would play Pachelbel's Canon on our string instruments at the funeral. At least this should give me time to get my bow restrung, and do some major practicing!

I do appreciate the prayers. My family is praying that Rees has a good Thanksgiving with no pain!!!