The Rest Of the Week

Since our Christmas cards had arrived, I worked on them on Friday.  Nancy stopped by to pick up her Christmas gift since she will not be at the neighborhood lunch this upcoming week and I prepared two boxes to be shipped to Michigan and Indiana.  We met Gerre and Barry for dinner and then saw A Christmas Carol, The Musical.  It was well done and because there was no intermission we were out of there at 9:40 much to Ted’s delight.

I was busy most of Saturday with the afternoon devoted to making lemon blossoms for a funeral Wednesday and some for our neighborhood dessert and present gathering here after lunch on Thursday.  We did go to church at 5:00 and then on to Cracker Barrel for dinner.  

Ted was shooting Sunday so I got the house all in order, finished the Christmas cards, finished my book and watched the Finale of Dancing With The Stars that I had missed while we were gone.  We met John and Irene at Perry’s Steakhouse at 4:00 to celebrate her birthday and to thank him for taking us to and picking us up from the airport for our Ireland trip. Since we had a 7:30 am flight to Detroit, we drove ourselves.  I won’t ask someone to get up at 5:00 am or come out late at night to save about $50.  Good flight times and longer absences play a huge role in whether we will ask for a ride to the airport.

Our dinner was terrific.  Another friend Nancy happened by and another Val was being seated with her husband.’s golf group.  It filled up really fast starting at 6:00 pm just as we were heading home.

Ted had to drive to Lufkin as soon as we got home.  He texted me when he had arrived at the Hilton and was in for the night.  

Our son-in-law’s mother who was with us at Thanksgiving and at  the dinner for Kara’s 50th birthday dinner was hospitalized with some sort of internal bleeding.  Hopefully there will be some diagnostic  tests and a plan developed early Monday morning.