Thanksgiving

We have had a great, but very busy, Thanksgiving holiday so far! First, we drove up to NE Ohio on Thanksgiving day and had dinner with Steve's family, along with Mimi and Guy. I think I saw Wm was less than 5 minutes that entire day. He and his cousin Andrew were off gallivanting about (mostly virtually). We ate a ton of food and had a great time!! The drive back was SCARY. Just as we left, the roads were really bad and I told Steve I thought we should just go back, but he took a wrong turn and by the time we got straightened out, everything was fine. Then we had no other trouble at all until we hit around Mansfield and it was a total white-out and we crept along 71 at about 20mph with our hazards on, Steve white knuckled, me freaking out, and Wm snoring happily in the back seat. We saw cars littering the ditches everywhere. Thankfully, the Subaru trucked through and we didn't so much as slip once! We didn't get home until well past 11pm, so we crashed hard once we got home!

Steve having a face-off with his second helping

How Wm spent the day (on the iPad in the other room)

Aunt Amy and Andrew made these and they were just too cute!

Then we woke up on Friday and had to hand wash all of our dishes (TORTURE) because our dishwasher is broken and Steve is waiting on a part. Steve then immediately left to take my car in for the windshield to be replaced (it had a giant, growing, crack in it). It took them forever and he just pulled up and honked and Wm and I ran out and hopped in so we could drive to Marion to see Great Papa. We were running pretty late because of the windshield business, but, with Steve's driving, we were only 5 minutes late!! We got to visit Great Papa's store and then go out to lunch. Great Papa handed Wm a $50 bill and I thought Wm's eyes were going to bulge out of his head. He goes, "I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS MUCH MONEY!" He has already spent $11 of it on random iPad game junk. He claimed he was going to save $20 of it, but I don't see that happening. It was snowing again when we left Marion, but stopped quickly and the roads were fine. We were beginning to think we were cursed!!

Treasure found in the back of the store

Because everything has been falling apart in our house, RotoRooter is on it's way here now to snake the main drain and toilet vent. It sucks to be dealing with all this weird stuff (dishwasher, car, toilet) while traveling all around trying to enjoy the holiday!! We were supposed to go over and have dinner at Mimi and Guy's tonight, but Mimi is sick. We're sending healing thoughts her way and are looking forward to the postponed dinner tomorrow!! But first, tomorrow morning, Steve and I are volunteering at church (well, I volunteered and then coerced Steve into coming). We are helping all the elementary school age children make bags of bean soup mix for the hungry and talking about poverty/hunger alleviation. Wm is excited that Steve and I will be leading his Sunday School class tomorrow!

It will be good to head back to work Monday so I can relax! ;-)