Everyone who works outside the house is away from home now. Husband at his shop, and oldest daughter at the bookstore. Youngest son, who's house-sitting some church friends over the holiday, is here. He sleeps there and then we pick him up noon-ish, he spends the day, then goes back after dinner. Pretty lucrative gig.
The girls are quiet. Middle one is writing quotes in one of her notebooks and listening to music and the least is watching The Secret Garden. I'm roasting a thirteen pound turkey (just a baby), as opposed to the 21 pounder from yesterday. After the boys took home leftovers, it was, pretty much, picked over. Today's is just for us. Making another smaller pan of stuffing as well. We're kind of greedy turkey eaters.
Son who has a male companion texted a photo of his full plate to him, and he asked if our son could bring some leftovers home. I had to laugh. They'd been to the other boy's mom's house for lunch earlier in the day, and our son came here for dinner. Trying to, at least, get my head around him having a boyfriend. Man, it's hard. Makes you cock your head, saying, HUH? Anyway, I fixed a plate to take to him. I admit, we do a bang-up Thanksgiving table. My mother's heart wants to invite him to our Christmas dinner, but not sure what my husband would say to me even bringing it up. My husband did crack a smile when I shared about our son's young man wanting the leftovers. He is someone's son, just as our boy is.
Wisdom is often so elusive.
Wisdom is often so elusive.
Yesterday was a blessing. Really. All the boys in town came for dinner, and we got a call from son in California. Everyone here seemed to have a good time---nothing much to add. No drama. Much prayer offered up beforehand. Hard to sit still after they left, knowing their lives are such a worldly wasteland. Married son and his wife delivered house-sitting son to his destination after our meal, and when they'd left, the girls said married son had been drinking before he got here. Thankfully, his wife drove them when they left. I'll tell you----our kids are so curious about what's out there and sometimes don't seem to want to rein it in. We're tee-totallers at our house (husband's past makes us so), and to even think about drinking is out of our frame of reference.
Turning off my brain. The rest of the day should be nice and restful. Window's up, sprinkling outside. Thinking we won't get any cold weather. Folks just west of us are getting ice, but I believe we'll be spared that. Thankful for that and many things.
Hope you're well. Take care.
