Turkey Dinner

Finally! My Mother and brother have arrived from the northern part of Michigan. My Mom calls it “God’s Country”. Normally they don’t come until just before Christmas, but I think that they were quite ready to take a break from the cold weather. So, this is the first year we get to spend Thanksgiving together for a long time.

While I am at work, my Mother does the laundry and has a great dinner ready when we all get home and my brother picks my youngest child up from school every day. Yesterday, he even gave the dog a bath. This allows me more time to work on my blog.

When they come, all diets are called off!! My Mom is an excellent baker. She makes homemade cinnamon rolls, banana bread and molasses cookies, just to name a few. I always seem to put on a few extra pounds when she comes.

My family loves to play all sorts of games. We play Phase 10, poker and Rummy. However, Canasta is our favorite. We
have an annual competition to see who can win the most games during her stay. My son Mark usually comes the closest to beating her; she is good!

All my friends love to come over when Mom and Ray are here. We usually get quite loud as we tell stories and
reminisce about the silly things we have done over the years. The stories tend to grow and have more exaggerations
added to them each year.

I look forward to spending Christmas and New Years with my Mom and brother will be here. I expect we will have a lot
of fun and make a lot of memories to pass down to the generations to come.