Like LadyM, I'm waiting for the COLD weather to get here. It is supposed to be in the low 20s tonight and will not get above freezing until sometime Monday. I really do not plan to leave the house after church tomorrow, until sometime Monday.
Today, however, it was really nice -- DS and I went out and got dmom's wreaths hung in the windows. She doesn't have spotlights on her house, but it still looks more festive and she feels better having them hanging. We also helped her move two chairs in the den -- just reversed their places on each side of the couch -- dgs had to help DS move the heavy chair. DGS and DS got the angel on the top of her Christmas tree and I hung the decorations that had pictures of dgrands -- but I never found the missing ornaments that belong to the dgrands.
DS and I swapped kids out there and DGS came home with me. He put the Army-Navy game on tv and I promptly fell asleep. Woke up when the game was going off and found out he had been asleep also! He's on the computer now and has the -- I am not making this up -- Bucked Up LA Bowl on tv. (This is Washington and Boise State playing. Do you have a favorite, Nancy?)
Other than helping dmom, I haven't done anything today. And I'm a little worried and depressed about dmom. She seems so unsteady on her feet, and she told me, if my dbro would move back and take her house, she would go to assisted living -- she is just tired of trying to keep up her place and doesn't feel like doing all that has to be done. Later she said she might move to my grandmother's house, out here closer to me... but It's just depressing, and a little scary to me to think about what the future might hold for her.
Anyway... DGS and I have had supper and I've found a couple of suit jackets/blazers of ds' that he can wear to church tomorrow and to the football banquet tomorrow afternoon -- I haven't heard anything about it being cancelled because of the temperatures. (Yes, sometimes we do that down here, LOL. I bet the rest of the country thinks we're a bunch of wimps.)
My Sunday School class is having a party tomorrow night and the hostess asked via text for a number on how many were coming. I just haven't replied -- I just don't feel like going to a couples' party right now. Dsisil said she understood completely -- "You sorta feel like you're missing your right arm."
I suspect I will be keeping DGD during the banquet anyway.
What are you wearing? Well, I don't have a lot of seasonal things but I do have a new sweatshirt. It says: "Probably going to jingle only part of the way. I'm tired." I also have the "I'm fine" t-shirt I told y'all about yesterday, and another sweatshirt that has three moose singing carols. I probably need a few more holiday tops. Today, I'm just wearing an Auburn sweatshirt.
That had to have been an awful explosion, Nancy!
(((HUGS))) for DangerBoy, Harriet. I hope the wisdom tooth extraction doesn't give him too much trouble.
LadyM, gas here is $2.49 for regular at the Murphy station by Wmart. (However, the last two times I've tried to fill up there, they have been out of the mid-range -- which I buy -- and the highest priced. I don't know what's going on with that.) I've bought at the higher priced Chevron station near my house. I don't know that it makes any difference, but dh was a great believer in sticking with the same grade of gas. Every time his brother used dinlaws' van, it would sputter and sometimes quit on us the next time we used it. DH suspected it was because they used the cheaper gas.
You're doing fine with Christmas, LadyM! Teens are so hard to buy for! A shopping spree will be just fine. Remember, this is coming from the one who is doing a Waffle House Christmas.
We will do our traditional BBQ pick-up meal for Christmas Eve at dbil's. I'll have to order the BBQ next week.
Cathy, I admire you with always having good meal plans. I bet that meatloaf will be so good on a cold night!
Same with the crockpot roast, Mystery. That sounds so good for a cold weather meal!
LadyM, I 100% support you on nixing the friend of your dgs. I worry about dgrands visiting other homes -- a silly worry because so far it has not come up AT ALL, except with one family. DDil is suspicious of the father, so DGD only visits at the grandparents' house. Neither of the dgrands have ever spent the night anywhere except with me, their other grandparents, and their uncle -- ddil's brother.
I spent the night all the time with friends, but they were always friends from church and my parents had known their parents all their lives. Thinking back, there was never an older brother in the house (or any brother) except for once and that was at a group spend-the-night party. But the world is not like that anymore... it's harder to get to know everyone's parents, I think, and kids today are exposed to so much. I really hope DS and ddil just make a blanket policy of no over night stays. I read things that say a lot of young parents are taking that approach these days.
I bet New York is beautiful, Twins! Enjoy your trip and stay safe!
So glad your mom has been able to get out some, blessed. That is so good for her.
* I loved the Dueling Jingle Bells too, LadyM. Yep, that sounds a lot like him. Those of you in our FB group can probably find him through my profile. He has several YouTube videos.
I have bought things this month but always give them to the teens at the moment of purchase. At this point, my plan is to have a group adventure to the mall and let the teens select their gift themselves. I'm sure that is breaking all kinds of gift selection rules and etiquette, but all I know it is easy peasy and guaranteed to be something they want. Plus we get to make memories of doing it together. I didn't plan to do it this way, but I'm just over here peddling as fast as I can while doing my best so we will just have to deal with being different from most.