A short work week with the TG holiday. Alex had Cub Scouts on Tuesday and had a pizza party and wreath-making. It's a fundraiser; the kids are to try to sell the wreaths for $20 each. TH wreaths are actually ornaments hot-glued onto round bundles of sticks, and I pity the person who would pay $20 for any wreath I saw that night. But I reckon I'll buy one and maybe gramma will buy one. Wednesday I departed work a few hours early, and we ran a few errands and went to Toys R Us in Fort Wayne to do some shopping. This year Thanksgiving was just like the ones I remember from when I was a kid...with only 4 people. It was the year when most everyone on Beth's side was with in-laws, nobody from my side can travel (with Christmas coming up), and all our friends were away or with other family, so we had it ourselves. And Beth made the best turkey I've ever had. And we could have stuffing with nuts in it. And the Lions got pounded again. We put up the Christmas tree in the evening. Friday, Beth realized her purse was missing, and the only place we could think it might be was Toys R Us, but we could not get any humans to answer a phone so we just drove out there, again, and lucky us, it was there with everything in it. After getting back again we drove out to visit Toni and her new baby David for the rest of the afternoon. Saturday we did some shopping at Lowe's and got a pantry, of sorts. We got a set of plastic shelves and put it in the hall closet, of which half is now a pantry. We moved all the food and stuff in and cleared out a lot of the junk that was in there til now. Today Alex and I stayed home from church because he's been coughing at night a lot lately and not sleeping well, and afterwards we all went out to lunch with the Myers'. The girls went home with us and played with the kids for a few hours while Brian and Dee did some shopping. Now begins the 3-4 week period between TG and Christmas where I'm never really focused...