Reflections....Random

Black Friday.  Who has the money?  I've been reading articles about how couples use a sort of military tactic on this one day of the year.  What if I applied the same tactics to "healthy living"-- I'm no longer calling it a diet; it is my new healthy life.  I wonder.....  Speaking of healthy living, I did NOT pig out yesterday.

Yesterday (Thanksgiving) was a good day at the strawberry patch.  All the children were home + 2 guests.  We pulled out the table leaf and actually used the dining room table!  The very table I just had to have because we were going to make memories in that room!  How many grainiacs have a room for a table and some chairs that you use once a year?  I have this Norman Rockwell image in my mind.  I love the old-fashioned concept but reality says that room could be used more than once a year...maybe twice if you do a  big Christmas celebration.  I'm sorting out room arrangements in my house trying to figure out how this family can use that table more than two or three times a year.  Host more parties?  That tires me just thinking about it.  Set up a ping pong net?  Now we're cooking.  Maybe pull out my sewing machine and start creating.  Sidebar: we watch football and Thanksgiving is a good day for football.  It is also a good day for stress if your football team is slow scoring.  I pulled out my coloring book and crayons; I needed to be in a happy place last night.  My blood pressure was boiling watching my boys first quarter.  Old Strawberry would have stuffed her red face.  Not so last night.  I was feeling very antsy so I colored.  Then I started a crochet project.  Before long they scored a touchdown.  Double crochet...chain four....another touchdown.  I know my stress level was falling and by 10:30 or so last night UT beat A & M!!!!!  By one point!!!!!!!!!!  What a game.  Cowboys won AND Longhorns won.  I slept like a baby last night and dreamed of my Grandmother.  She was not a football player/ cheerleader/ nor football fanatic as far as I know.  I can only think it had to do with a certain gift she gave me long....long....long years ago.  This gift was on my Thanksgiving table.  Grandmom was not with us in body, but her spirit was definitely with us yesterday.  She loved family and she absolutely adored knick knacks.  Ask anyone!

lots of food

She is a salt shaker and her boy mate is pepper!