Towards December

As I turned the computer on this morning I was reminded that we are now headed towards the last month of the year.  Friday marks the end of November but really I should have known that because in the last weeks you could not go into a Target or Wal-Mart or any large store without hearing Christmas music.  I shut all of that out until after Thanksgiving but it has been there. 
We had a nice Thanksgiving Day.  Terry created a wonderful dinner which we shared with friends.  It has even been almost better the last few days as we feast on turkey sandwiches and the left over side dishes.  Of course on special holidays we think about all the kids and grand kids and wish we were closer.  As we shared our dinner on Thursday we thought about kids in GA, MN, TX, WI and IN.
We will not do a lot of Christmas shopping this year.  We will send presents to the grand kids but those are purchased, wrapped and waiting to be sent. This week we will put up our Nativity Scene and some other decorations to make things look like Jesus' birthday is near.  As for Christmas we are undecided yet.  Last year we spent in St. Paul as we waited for little Ben to be born on Christmas Eve Day.
Actually much bigger than Thanksgiving last week was sister Joan's and Ron's early Christmas present.  Grandson Charlie and his wife Kelly presented them with four new great grand children.  Addison, McKayla, Andrew and Mason are doing fine, great grandma and great grandpa are doing fine too and mom and dad, well I am sure they are thrilled.  Joan and Ron have one other great grand child so this makes five now.  The only negative is Joan is ssllooww on the draw with pictures, none yet.  Her excuse is she does not know how to down load them onto her computer but really I suspect Kelly and Charlie can not get them out of great grandma's arms!!!  We are thrilled for them but really it makes me tired to think of FOUR.
We have been enjoying wonderful weather here.  It was 56 when I walked out to get the paper this morning and by mid afternoon it will be 75.  Maybe a perfect day to take the boat shuttle to the beach and go for a walk.  I have also been able to get some tennis in and my game, at any given time, can look like the good--the bad or the ugly.
One last note.  I have been able to keep up with my writing.  So far in November I have written every day so today will be #25. I have the topics for the rest of the week and then I will decide where to go with it.
I just sipped the last of my FP coffee!