Thankful for sooooo many things!!

I am thankful I could cook for my family this Thanksgiving.

I am thankful Mary (my sister-in-law) cooked the turkey it was gorgeous & delicious.

I am thankful to have a little sis (Ricki) & she was here to help cook.

I am thankful my mom is feeling better and was able to help in the cooking also.

I am thankful Stacy (daughter) was able to come from Ohio for Thanksgiving, helped cook, washed lots of dishes, took pictures for me, played with Abby, caught us up on her life, & it reminded us how much we love her.

I am thankful Dave brought Stacy home for Thanksgiving

I am thankful I have a husband that loves me, can relax & entertain our guest.

I am thankful that John (Ricki's husband) is moving his whole family back to Oklahoma City. His mom & dad (Tom & Judy) are moving back also.

I am thankful two nephews were able to come to Thanksgiving dinner. Christopher Harned is a sophomore and Morgan Martin is a senior.

I am thankful my older brother was able to come to dinner & visit with us.

I am thankful we had a special guest come to dinner from Korea, Ju. He is a foreign exchange student that is staying at Mac's house this year. 

I am thankful for Abby she is such a sweet dog. She is having back problems and we have to keep her on a leash in the house so she doesn't jump and run. 

I am thankful for the fun times we had cooking. I was adding bourbon to the pumpkin bread pudding.

I am thankful Ricki is looking and feeling so good!

I am thankful for FAMILY!

I am thankful that Kenna was able to have her family home for Thanksgiving.  Lori & Jeff stopped at her house on their way to move to Prosser, Washington, Paige & Rob came from Austin, Liz & Mindy came from Duncan. If she couldn't be here I am thankful she was with family, too.

I am thankful Mary(Mac's wife) was able to be with her Mom & Dad in Tulsa.

I am thankful Ray and Lacie were with her family in Carnegie.

I AM THANKFUL FOR A GREAT LIFE WITH DON!!!

Ready! Set! Cook!

I've been thinking about what I want to cook for Thanksgiving dinner.

I think I will have ten for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Mom, Ricki, John, Chris, Mac, Mary, Morgan, Stacy, Don, & me, & maybe Ray and Lacie and their two kids.

I usually start out with about twenty different dishes I want to make and then have to narrow it down seven or eight.  That is hard because I want to make it all.

Today I got down to business and decided to do some of the preliminary cooking.

• Bought more groceries

• Cooked pumpkin bread for pumpkin bread pudding

 

• Made cornbread for dressing

• Cut up celery & onions for dressing

• Washed lots of dishes

Stacy went to Tulsa to visit with Cathy & the girls and came back tonight.

Temperatures were 76 today and 77 yesterday. Not a lot like November but a cold front comes in Wednesday night and it is to get cold and windy. If it is warm tomorrow I think we may try to put up the Christmas lights.

Stacy's Here!

We've been waiting for Stacy to get here for Thanksgiving and she came in this afternoon.

It was a two day drive from Ohio for she and Dave but they made it fine just a little tired. He is staying with family in Blanchard and she will be here with us.  She will be visiting Jane and friends in Tulsa.  It will be a short trip but so glad to see her. Roxy stayed home at the kennel. They will have to go back home on Friday after Thanksgiving. 

A short visit is better than none!!

Happy 90th Birthday Mom!

Jodean Martin

It has been so fun this week to hear mom talk about all the phone calls, cards, emails and facebook messages she has received about her birthday. I think it was quite a surprise.

Last Saturday I sent out an email to friends & family about her birthday and they responded in large numbers.  She even got some flowers from her niece, Denise.

I also went shopping for her some new clothes for her birthday from the kids and we did some trying on today. 

After a month of pain in her back from her fall she is finally feeling better and all the birthday wishes helped.

Life after the Walk!

I think I have recovered from the walk and getting back to normal. 

Except for my fat lip with a fever blister. I hate these things.

For two days now I have been popping L-Lysine pills and applying abreva.  Yesterday I think I took 12 lysine pills and it keep it from swelling huge.  It was going to be a really big one.  This morning I took 6 more and I will take 4 more when I go to bed.  It has helped but it will have a scab when it goes down.

I knew I was probably going to get one from the walk so I took them the weekend of the walk. I didn't get one so I thought I had escaped it. I quit taking them after the walk. Well I woke up with it yesterday after a week.

Surprise, Surprise!!

Tuesday, Don and I went over to Mom's for her birthday celebration with the Assisted Living group.  They have a monthly celebration in the dining room with cake & entertainment. They had a blue grass religious group from a Midwest City church that performed about 10 songs. We all enjoyed it.  Here are some of the pictures.  She looked really good.  Can't believe she will be 90 on Saturday. 

She had four friends come over today to visit, laugh and talk.  I can hear in her voice she is feeling better. Her back gets tired really fast and she needs to take an aleve each day and that helps but sometimes she forgets.

My annual mammogram was yesterday and everything looked fine.  Talked to a counselor because I was considered high risk with mom having had breast cancer.  She asked a lot of questions and entered them into some formula and the results said that I was ranked as just having an average risk of breast cancer, not high risk.  Mainly because mother had her cancer post menopause. I only had about an 8% risk of having breast cancer. One thing that brought up my risk was by not having any children.  This was good news. 


I also found out it had been 11 yrs since I had a bone density test. So scheduled one for next Wednesday.


Don & I met with the home & termite inspectors at Tom & Judy Harned's(John's parents) new house today.  Most things checked out good. Just a few problems with windows and water leaks.  Looks like they will be moving to OKC at Thanksgiving. John & Ricki will coming after that. 


Time to start planning for Thanksgiving dinner.  Need to start that tomorrow.