My mistake. That's what happens when I stay up after watching the Leafs game. Too wound up to go off to bed!
lol it happens. Sometimes I forget I've added quotes to a multi-quote and then some random quote gets added to an unrelated thread
____________________________________
@leebee
I haven't read the thread you're talking about but I'm sorry to hear it's not been the easiest start to merging of the families
I'm also so very sorry to hear about your mother-in-law
Sounds like you had a powerful bond with her too and she sounds like she was a lovely woman. Again so very sorry for your loss
We lost Aaron's grandmother, whom I had gotten close to as well, New Year's Eve nearly 4 years ago. We had a Christmas gift for her that we never got to give her as she was in the hospital and not very lucid around Christmastime....still have that gift though all packaged up. I wish I could have had just one more night sharing a blanket (her and I were twins when it came to being cold lol).
I'll never eat again
Actually I ate only a modest amount considering it was Thanksgiving. I was going to pass on the German chocolate brownie with the ice cream, but DW chose it for my birthday so how could I resist?
We had a very nice day just the two of us, the rest of the fam will be back in town tomorrow and we have a sale or two to hit early in the morning. If I can get up in time.
Hope everyone had a nice day whether it was a holiday or not. Hey, pretty sure it's a weekend no matter where you are.
Happy birthday again!!
We had Thanksgiving 'dinner' around 1:30pm with my mom's side and then just before 5:30pm dinner with mother-in-law's side. Today with have dinner at father-in-law's house. So.much.food.
This year we only went to one place for Black Friday.....Petsmart
. We were going to get there when they opened at 7am but it's Petsmart...not exactly
the Black Friday sale place you gotta line up early for. We ended up getting there just after 7:30am. They always have cat litter on sale. We did buy some dry cat food but on
Amazon. It was a little over $1 cheaper than Petsmart.
Last night we bought some icicle lights from Home Depot. Their 'sale' price yesterday was the same as their Black Friday price and bonus it was free delivery to our house! So we went ahead and bought them online so we didn't have to go to the store when they opened at 6am. They had a really good sale on AA batteries but in the end we decided it wasn't worth it since we still have 25 AA batteries left. The batteries were only available in store unfortunately.
{{ETA: Our icicle lights we currently have are on their last legs. We bought them probably close to 6 years ago when one of the Kmarts was liquidating and we used them in our wedding on the staircase and then again on our rental house and then again on our current home. We have 4 strands but only 3 strands will fit. We've been using the 4th strand to fix the lights that go out and can't be bought back to life with a light strand gun we have (can't remember the brand but it's been a lifesaver). We've been needing new ones but it's hard to find the LED warm white ones; normally it's only the cool white ones you can find. We much prefer the soft/warm white with incandesent kind but it's been hard to fin the incandesent bulbs lol The ones we bought from home depot are the warm white incandesent bulbs.}}
We had in the past gone to Nebraska Furniture Mart but they really didn't have anything. Normally we'd get a few Blu-rays but they just didn't have good enough deals to entice us out there.
-----------------------------------------------
All our Christmas stuff has been up since last week. Lights outside were up on last Friday; we were going to do it last Sunday but weather was better Friday. That actually worked out as our neighbor was able to talk to us. They are putting in a pool (with excavating going on in Feb/March) and wanted to talk to us about our tree that has a large limb overhanging their yard would need to be cut for the pool so he was asking for our permission. Then he also mentioned giving us some of the dirt that will be excavated for the pool which is great because over by our egress window the ground has settled a bit so we'll fill that in with the dirt and some top soil and reseed (grass isn't in the best of shape at the moment either so reseeding may be best). Plus we need to fix a spot by our driveway and walkway to our front door. One of the downspouts buried under the walkway to our front door pops up in the spot I'm talking about and so the dirt has been washed away with constant water going by it. I've thought about doing a mulch/plant thing there though for the future since it'll be a recurring issue if we just let it continue with dirt and grass.
Tree was up last Thursday night.
I'll post some pics later if I remember
) last month.
DW did some damage at Kohl's last night and she's off for more shopping just now.
Are those dancing Christmas gophers?
We not only say goodbye to WDW but to DD as well. She'll be home for Christmas next week so that will make it all better.
Hi everyone. 
