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November 29, 2004
Holiday Roundup
--Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We liked ours so much we had two.....kids' work schedules didn't allow everyone to get together at once. But we all enjoyed ourselves anyway.
--Thanksgiving is a really sucky time to have a horrifically sore throat, BTW. There are no doctors' offices open. At all. My son the Navy corpsman said I have strep. Even if I believed his on-line, IM across thousands of mile diagnosis, there wasn't much I could do about it.
--WildChild got to spend Wednesday & Thursday with us....and the disruption of his normal routine meant he was as wild as a March hare. I swear the child did not stop chattering the whole time he was here, except when he fell asleep. One highlight: On the way back from his mom's, he was talking to my daughter on my cell phone....and 'reading' a book to her. It must've been a bad connection, because she apparently was having problems understanding him. I heard him repeat "No, them!" several times until frustrated, he yelled into the phone "No No! I mean them! Them! These! Those!" His first conjugation. I was so proud. Before you become overwhelmed by his brilliance, let me remind you that he still doesn't understand that the person to whom he is talking cannot actually see the pages of the book he is 'reading' to them, no matter how many times he holds the phone up to the book and yells "See! Look!"
--Instead of starting our Christmas shopping Friday, I spent most of the day with my daughter house-hunting. We found one that was a definite maybe, and she & the SIL are going with their realtor to look at it more closely on Wednesday. Looks like a good fit for them, nice neighborhood of primarily young families like them, house is the right size, and there's even a fenced back yard for their goofy-ass retriever mix dog.
--I also noticed, while helping her search online for houses, that our little farm is still on the market. So we're once again thinking somewhat seriously about doing a Green Acres move. It would be nice to have fresh eggs and a decent garden spot, doncha think? And there's a pond which I assume we could stock so WildChild could go fishing anytime he wanted.
I think we're going to have to start playing the Lotto again.
Posted by Rita at November 29, 2004 07:52 AM
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A year or so ago, my inlaws bought 80+ acres so they could build their dream house. They started off by building a barn for their new tractor with a 2 bedroom apt above it that they can live in while they build their house - they just moved in last weekend. Meanwhile, they also put in a road and a pond which they fully stocked and now they're thinking of building a really cool yet large playhouse for all the grandkids. Mind you they have actually started laying any foundation for the actual house...
Posted by: yayaempress at November 30, 2004 10:53 AM
Hey, at least they have their priorities straight.
I suspect this place will sell before we're able to seriously start house hunting. But it's a nice daydream.
Posted by: rita at November 30, 2004 11:35 AM