Yesterday was great! We had 22 people at my brother in law and sister's house, which is not something that has happened on Thanksgiving in... I don't know if all of us have gotten together on Thanksgiving since we were kids. We had such wonderful food...and way too much of it. Barb (my sister) decorated the tables beautifully that I couldn't help think how lovely Julie would have thought it was and I appreciated it more than I normally would. Attention to details and fancy stuff is not my thing. I have some wonderful pictures, however I am having problems with the file....hence the fact there is no post yesterday and no pictures today. If I can solve the issue, I will get some on here.


Today Beth and I got to have lunch with Mom and Jim(her husband). After lunch Jim went to go see his family that just moved to the Joliet area and my Mom got to stay here. We played a couple of games, which my Mom is not a real big fan of, and that is one of the things I love about my Mom. Whenever she is able to be here, she plays games with us and it is just so fun. For the next few times we play that game, the kids say stuff like, "Do you remember when Grandma.....". I am very thankful that we all get the opportunity to have this precious time together. With them living so far away, we don't get much chance to do these types of things, but we certainly have good memories of our times together!

Basically we had a wonderful couple of days and I feel very blessed that we could share this time with my family.