Homeward bound

Here is Maximilian Octavius Adkins bundled up ready to head home to his siblings.  Little does he know what he is in for!  He will be smothered with hugs, kisses and all kind of love.  Maximilian you are one lucky guy!

Terry and I watched a movie tonight.  It stared Amy Adams who is one of my favorite actors.  The movie was "Leap Year".  I enjoyed it a great deal but it did bring some tears to my eyes.  OK I tend to be a little over the top when it comes to emotions.  It brought to mind some of my major faults that I wish I did not have.  Regrets, well I try hard not to go there but really some of my short comings are almost inexcusable.  Can't change it now and I will not have the chance to do things like I am thinking about again BUT life goes on.

I played tennis today but stopped a tad early as my right forearm was tender.  I have iced it 3 times today and I will not play until Monday now so hopefully it will be fine.  

We will take in Terry's grand daughter's college graduation December 14th in north Georgia.  We have her blanket made of pictures.  This is Terry's third grandchild who has finished college and the blanket is THE gift.  There was one picture Terry wanted on it and I could not find it but I do think it turned out very nice.

I finished my 2020 calendar that I have made for the past few years.  Each year I make it I say this may be the last one.  I will run out of pictures soon or I have to come up with different ideas.  I put the order in a couple days ago.

I thought I would take a little shut eye this afternoon but it turned into MORE than that.  So I may be up for a while tonight.  

November 22, 1962 (59 years ago today)

It was a gray cloudy day.  We had gotten several inches of snow and I had noticed there was frost on the nails in the ceiling of my bedroom.  I was not all that excited about the coming winter as my bedroom just never warmed up.  For the 1,000,000+ I asked myself "why could Dad not get some heat upstairs.  All it would take is a hole in the ceiling but NO."  I was excited about the day as I rolled out of bed.  It was Thanksgiving.  It was going to be a quiet holiday as nobody was coming home but I knew the food would be great.  I mean if only we had lefsa I would be happy.  Mom had slaved over the lefsa maker on Saturday and made a double batch and as usual the last half of the second batch the rolling pin started to get very sticky.  For me no problem as I knew then that Mom would get out the corn meal and make hard lefsa which she would then stack and keep at the head of the stairs.  That meant I could break off a small piece each time I went up stairs.  I might have gone up stairs more than necessary!  Anyway today the food would be great.  Dad had actually won a turkey in a shoot near Fairmont so we would be having boiled potatoes, lefsa, turkey, dressing and Mom would make her ground carrots with a mustard dressing on top.  There would be jell-o for dessert "for sure".  Ronald had brought a TV home early in the fall so we may be able to watch a football game after we ate.  No games as Dave was now "out in the world" so I would have to find a way to keep busy.  Maybe we would drive to Cayuga after our meal to visit Grandma.  I thought about basketball which had started.  I could not shot outside as there was snow on the ground but I could go in the hay barn and shoot there.  We did not have a basket but Dave and I had nailed up  5 gallon pail on the wall and measured so that it was 10 feet tall.  Of course we cut out the bottom. Maybe I would do that before we ate. BUT first I had to find out if Mom would allow me to have a piece of lefsa for breakfast!  She said yes!  By the time the sun went down I was kind of done for the day.  Too much turkey, too much dressing and too many pieces of lefsa.  BUT really not enough people to make it a perfect day!!!

Enough for now.  Of course the FP is long long gone as it is now late into the evening.  As I lie down to sleep I will be thinking of the Adkins and all the excitement in their home as the new baby arrives. I can see and hear those kinds and how they ALL want to hold him!