Leslie's Blog

It has been a busy few days! On Thursday I volunteered in Libby's class from 7:30 until noon. I went home and started taking all of our Christmas decorations out. I went back to pick up Libby at 1:30pm and we came straight back home and started decorating for Christmas! :-) Our ornaments included the cute little snowflake above. :-) Libby is with her dad from Friday, November 21st through Sunday, November 30th for her Thanksgiving break. :-( I normally would decorate for Christmas the day before Thanksgiving but since Libby was going to be gone for so long we decorated on Thursday so that we could do it together.

Thursday is usually my one day of the week to take care of dinner but Ryan called Thursday afternoon to say that he was taking care of dinner. That was a relief because I was in a sea of Christmas decorations and really didn't have the time to stop and make dinner, anyway. He came home with turkey and all the usual Thanksgiving food so the three of us were able to have Thanskgiving together before Libby left. It was such a sweet surprise by him! I was very happy that he gave me the opportunity to share Thanksgiving with Libby!!!

Friday night we had dinner at Ryan's parents house because his grandmother is visiting for the week. We'll be going back there on Thursday for Thanksgiving with Ryan's parents, his grandmother, his aunt and uncle, and Ryan's brother, his wife, and their children.

Last night I went to dinner with my friends Karen and Kristina. Kristina went on a cruise in September with her boyfriend and thier families. Well, being the sneaky little thing that she is, Kristina and Billy decided to get married on the cruise and have it be a surprise for thier families. So, she went on the cruise and came back married!! She had a bridal shower on November 1st but that was the weekend that Karen and I were out of town for our Girls Weekend so since we weren't able to go to her shower we went to dinner with her last night. We went out for sushi and I have a very weak stomach so I turned a little green looking over the menu but I found something that didn't sound too scary (grilled chicken roll). :-)