Due to the anniversary trip and Thanksgiving, I haven’t done much so far but did want to say I brought back some Carolina Gold rice from trip.They had, on the instructions, could store it in freezer and (in their words) should keep forever. Just wondering if I could do that with regular rice in the chest freezer in the “lower” pantry??? South Carolina was really nice, the weather while rainy wasn’t too bad for November. Although everyone we met said it was unseasonably cold this year. Well for this Nawthener it was not too bad. Came back to snow but it’s been raining this past week so it’s just cold AND wet. DH got the Christmas lights up outside (in the two days it hasn’t rained) and we’ve had to replace a couple of things this year.We have most all of the lights outside changed to LED’s, just have two things with old school lights on them so electric bill will not be too bad this year. DH says it’s for the Grands but I suspect he just enjoys decorating. Now we just have to co ordinate the timers so the lights go on and off together. Picked up the tree today, should of seen the two of us hoisting it up top of the car and tying it down. Usually sons and families come but with one in Europe and the other working, it was just us two old fogies LOL. We’ve been going to the same tree farm since boys were little and cutting one down but this year we just picked one of their pre cuts. I’ve been taking down the fall/Thanksgiving stuff and will get to putting up the Christmas stuff, hopefully I can get it all done this week end, last year took me almost till mid December, was sick and not really up to it. This year I’ve been quite diligent in taking care of the two of us, praying we don’t get sick THIS year. Since we flew for our trip this year, took my Clorox travel pack and wiped the plane trays and seats down, DH still thinks I’m nuts but neither one of us so far(knock wood) has gotten sick (he usually comes down with a cold EVERY time we’ve flown and can’t figure out why). Lady behind us watching me thought it was a great idea, so I gave her a couple of the Clorox wipes for her to use, told her got mine in the section of Targets where the travel sizes of stuff were and keep a couple of the packets in my purse all the time. Use them to wipe down the carts in the grocery store too. With half the family not coming this year it’s going to be just the 12 of us. Son 1 is going to try and video chat/Skype with us Christmas day but with the 8 hour difference, they’ll be heading to bed just as we’re sitting down for dinner HA HA HA.We’ll probably head down to his place after the first of the year with the gifts for them and the kids. There is a situation brewing AGAIN with the psycho ex, so please pray for him (and us) that he will be successful this time in his endeavors. Can’t go into it here but please keep him and the kids in your prayers.
