this week was absolutely wonderful. thanksgiving was fantastic.. just fantastic. it was good to be home but away from home all at once. it was nice.
hung out at furman on friday night and just had a wonderful time.. yummy italian dinner at the apartment, then out for drinks with friends. we had one of those ridiculous waitresses who talks constantly.. constantly.. and is kind of funny while doing so? twas fun ;)
went to cory's on saturday and visited papa.. who gave me a gigantic bag of partially-rotting apples to bring home for thanksgiving. found out thismorning from ryan he used to use those apples to feed the cattle. so i took the cattle-apples home and mom made apple sauce, apple cake, apple-mince pie, and apple stuffing for the turkey. and we still had half a bag of cattle apples left.
oh, cattle apples.
so saturday i went home, and got to spend some good time with my family. we went to nolan's football game and watched them absolutley destroy the other all-star team. his football card cracks me up -- size 15 shoes, 230 lbs, 5'7"... 11 years old. pretty fantastic. he's not allowed to touch the ball this year because he's such a big guy, but next year you better believe he'll be all over it. i have this secret-dream of watching him play college football... i think he'll be freakin' awesome. we shall see.
family time was good.. then my moms brother and his family and grandma came on tuesday. i never realized how ridiculously cool grandma is.. we had lunch with mom on the harbor on wednesday, and just listening to them talk about their lives was really inspiring. mom talked about getting wilderness training to work on the life flight in idaho, grandma talked about losing grandpa a few years ago.. it was a cross-generation discussion of life. pretty cool.
also pretty cool? grandma's obsession with bravo. she hurt her hip, so she's been cursing like a sailor.. and better yet, she tivo's project runway and top chef pretty much every episode. i can see a lot of similarities between us.. we played apples to apples with the cousins, and we were totally on the same wave length. pretty classic.
cory came in on wednesday night, and the extended family absolutely loved him. he went fishing with dad and uncle chris, then we met up for some fun thanksgiving-ness. it was absolutely lovely.
oooh more later. off to bake muffins. i'm in denial about being back at furman.
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