Holidays, gotta love 'em.

Thanksgiving week! Have we forgotten about this holiday with all the Christmas commercial promotion going on? This year, of all years, we should be remembering this day and be thankful and grateful for what we still have. What happened to Pilgrims and Native Americans who supposedly started this day--until Lincoln made it official. I loved the Thanksgiving Day programs at school with all the costumes and turkey songs. Remember Stone Soup? Recreating the Mayflower on the gym floor, then crowding into it to show what it was like crossing the ocean? What's with forgetting all that? Maybe I'm out of the loop, but last week one of my favorite radio stations started playing all Christmas music--really now, that's way too soon.
This year neither child will be coming home so husband and I are making our way to the ancestral homes in KY--well, what used to be the ancestral home, though Mother no longer lives there. But it's a small town and you get my drift. I, the oldest of four, am the only one not living in the town, so we will congregate at the other sister's home in a near by hamlet. She is by far the best sister, having taken on most of the responsibility for keeping things going. Everyone will be there except for my children who would have had to travel far and wide to get here. Hopefully, they will be here in Memphis for Christmas. I digress.
We do plan to have the traditional goodies. We are saddened by the death of our beloved great-niece who was killed by a hit-and-run killer this summer. It will be hard for all of us, this being our first get together since her death. But we will rejoice at the good health of the other great niece who is a one year (so far) survivor of a liver transplant. And, we look forward to another birth in May. It's a very good thing to have little ones again though we are sad not to have the first one with us. She has a beautiful monument in Louisville and I'm hoping to go see it soon.
So, a few days in KY, then I plan to spend a few days in Nashville with my buddies. I have really good friends there and am beyond thankful to still have a condo there for visiting and playing with friends.
Knitting--finished a scarf for son's girlfriends using the yarn she gave me last Christmas--Lorna's Laces Boucle in Charcoal. It made a scrumptious scarf. She, with her dark hair and big eyes will look great in it. Also finished gift for daughter who might read this so no more said. More to come as I need to knit a scarf or socks or something for daughter's boyfriend.
Also am knitting a Thanksgiving shawl for myself and a shawl/scarf called the Swirl Shawl along with more socks and a mitered square bag--all of which are put off until the Christmas knitting is done.
Reading--have finished all the books I needed to read for the workshop I gave at church yesterday. It went well, but still have one more session to go. That reading took a while so I'm still on Edgar Sawtelle and just started Knitting for Good! by Betsy Greer.
I'll be taking a tote bag of knitting and another of reading to Nashville where I seem to get lots done--not so many distractions and more time to concentrate on hobbies, for goodness sake.
Christmas shopping--well I'll need to get started on that soon. Ha.
Holidays, good love 'em, so I'm going to love Thanksgiving this week and will think about the other---never forgetting the real reason for it--next week.
That's the way it is. See y'all.