Crochet Me Crazy

At least I don't have a mile long, expensive Thanksgiving grocery list like I usually do this time a year! We will be working at the stables on Thanksgiving Day this year. It's supposed to be a busy day. I'm surprised because Alison LOVES working at the stables but she is having a hard time dealing with no Thanksgiving with family this year. Normal tradition is traveling to Jeff's Aunt Cathy's house in Victoria. They have a beautiful house and set-up with cabins that's perfect for large crowds. We were invited to Thanksgiving Day at our friend and Alison's friend's from dance house in Utopia as well. I told Alison she could go if she wanted to but she said no. She wants to be with her family. My kids are great....they handled this complete uprooting and upset of their normal surburban lives with grace. I'm only just now beginning to see the signs of weariness with the lack of having their own space. I hear at least 2-3 times a week now, they are ready for a house. So AM I and that's exactly what I tell them. Alison is tired of sharing a room with her stinky brother. Ha!

Michael is working on setting up his time to go have the Baptist pastor help him with his taxidermy this week. Tentative schedule is maybe Tuesday if we can work it out.

I hope everyone is having a great week this week getting ready for the kick-off of the Holiday season. Hey, in a normal life...I would have had all my Christmas shopping FINISHED by Thursday so that we could spend the rest of the month until Christmas doing fun stuff!