Thanksgiving

Today was Thanksgiving. It was a very nice Thanksgiving overall. Most of the family had other plans, so I hosted Mom, Johnny, Jake, and Mike for lunch at my place. Mom is always talking about how tired she is and how much work doing stuff like this is, so I wanted to let the day be restful for her. The only real task I had for her was to cook the sweet potatoes....she does that MUCH better than I do! I was pleased with how the food turned out, but found that it was more work to make Mom sit down than it was to do all the cooking! She wouldn't stop doing stuff. I found that slightly amusing, but kept sending her back to the living room!

After lunch Jacob left, but Brenda and her kids dropped by in shifts. It was really good to see the twins again. I've been keeping in touch with them more during the past year thanks to the wonders of text messaging and Facebook. It was good to see them face to face for the first time in a while.

We also planned the menu and talked about gifts and exchanges and such for Camp Mack while Brenda was there. For those of you who don't know about the Camp Mack experience...our family rents a lodge for a weekend around Christmas and all go hang out together. It's the one time a year when most of us are there. I think that this year there will be about 18-19 there. I'm pretty excited about it. I'm sure we'll get on each other's nerves, but I think overall it will be a good time.

Well, back to studying for Hermeneutics....