Yo Yo Yo, Ho Ho Ho

This was our most wonderful of American Thanksgivings. I don't know what it is, but I have celebrated Thanksgiving here in the land of the free oh maybe upteen times, but I just can't say Thanksgiving, the American part always sticks with it. I don't mean to be so terribly annoying all the time, only some of the time, really. We had such a nice time with Kassie's family. Dear mother Greer put on a dinner for about 25 people. I cannot believe it myself. And it was wonderful!

Those are Thankful Trees as center pieces. They were lots of fun. Of course, you can't blame Dan and I for getting a bit silly and writing things like "Kassie is especially thankful for the literary genius that is J.K. Rowling". When we all know full well that if it isn't Steinbeck she shall have no part in it!

One thing I am not so thankful for is the fact that we need new weather stripping on the bottom of our front door. We arrived home this evening to the strangest of strange things. Somehow some long little slug made it in the door, over the carpet and all the way to the kitchen floor! Dude! Do I live in a marsh? That poor little guy was probably crawling all the live long day with dreams of sugar plums dancing in the recycling bin just for him. So weird! Has this ever happened to you? Virginia is a strange land. There are even turtles in the back yard, WILD TURTLES! I just can't get over it myself.

And the Ho Ho Ho part. Of course after American Thanksgiving comes the opening of the Christmas season, which we hailed in by watching 'Elf'. Perhaps the most best Christmas movie ever! Oh how I tried and I tried to watch that whole dang movie from start to finish, but in true Payne girl style (as taught by our mother) I fell asleep just as Buddy was shaking off his tentative plans for a fun filled father-son day from his Etch-A-Sketch. I count myself lucky though, because Dan no longer takes it as a personal slight when I fall asleep mid-movie- oh the sadness it once caused!