MY THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving was good. Restful? NO! But good still. We had my in-laws over for breakfast, and that was nice...except for when my hubby got a call to go see about a fire alarm going off somewhere. "Breakfast" turned into "Brunch" due to the delay in his arrival after he went out. He was on call this weekend & hopefully that means he'll be all ours for Christmas and not be on call then too. But with his job, who knows. We had lunch at my parent’s house, and it was nice, but quiet! My family all came in shifts this year. I didn’t get to see either of my brothers at the same time, and all the cousins, aunts and uncles were in a million different directions at a million different times. Still the food was plentiful and good, and we loved it all (especially the dressing and mom's famous potato salad!) We went to my hubby's dads in the evening...and no, I did NOT eat again! I was still stuffed. But the kids did, and we had a nice visit. About the time we were leaving (8:00 pm, mind you), my mom calls and tells me that one of the craziest and most hilarious cousins we have, had surprised her for a visit, and wants to know would we come back by. WELL HECK YEAH! I love these people, they are great! My husband was introduced to her a few years ago, and when she found out he could install a security system in her home, she was excited! Now I need to precede the following story with a little background on her. I believe she is my mom's 4th cousin and she is from what we all refer to as "The Sticks", and most would refer to as "The Country"! She has the thickest southern accent of anyone you'd ever meet. Her daughter is a year older than me, and her son is about the same age as my brothers. We didn't get to see them often, but all through my childhood, whenever they all came over, it was nothing but F-U-N!!! My husband was introduced to this side of the family a few years ago, and she told him she needed him to put a "booger light" in her house. Yeah, you read that right. A "BOOGER LIGHT"!!! Let me translate for those of you who don't know what she meant. She wanted a SECURITY SYSTEM in her new home! The only kind of security she had was a motion light that came on in the driveway when someone or something walked up. So you can imagine when she said "BOOGER LIGHT" the kind of laughter that followed was enough to make your side split! Every since then, whenever her name is mentioned, my husband only refers to her as "BOOGER LIGHT"!! It always gets a laugh. When we went in to see them late Thursday evening (it was nearly 9pm, and my poor kids were exhausted!), the party came to life the minute my husband walks into the living room and sees them sitting on the couch and he yells "IT'S BOOGER LIGHT!!" From that moment on, we laughed, and laughed and screamed more laughter as we talked about the good ol' days. It was a great day! The only thing for sure is that I was exhausted when I had to get up at 1am because my little man was running fever...got back to sleep around 3:30 and then up around 5am to start getting ready for my "mad shopping" day on the craziest shopping day of the year! I made it home by 4pm, and was fighting sleep at 7pm. Kids and me in the bed by 8:30...which for our home is UNHEARD OF! I'm definitely a night owl, and rarely in bed before 11pm. But I made up for the lost sleep on Saturday and its back to a regular schedule now...a regular schedule of chaos that is!
J