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The Weekly Newsletter for November 28 - December 2, 2011 |
Giving thanks at home
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| Tye says thanks |
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My pup is very happy today. I'm home. My sisters are here. Friends are here, in and out, visiting, cooking, going slow. Tye does not cook, nor does she often go slow, but she is adaptable and so, if we're going slow, she does too.
So it is today. |
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Drawing session |
| After the wood stacking project (I'll tell you about it in a bit) my sisters and "le beau" settled into chairs on the deck for a session of sketching. My sister and Greg draw every day, home or not, Thanksgiving or not. I can see them out of my office window here at home. Nice. Very. |
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| Dinners for the week |
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Give us a call by noon and we'll have your dinners ready by 3. You can come until 7.
828-252-1500
Monday, November 28 Chicken Cordon Bleu 7.95
Tuesday, November 29 Spinach and Ricotta Manicotti Crepes 7.25
Wednesday, November 30 Braised Pot Roast with Winter Vegetables 9.95
(oops - i'm at home and the menu is at work...I'll post Thursday and Friday on the wibsite on Monday, okay?) |
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Laurey's |
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Casseroles and Lasagna for the Week |
Yikes!!!!
I'm happy to be home but I don't have the list of casseroles or lasagnas with me. I'll post them on Monday too. (sorry)
Call us by noon and we'll have yours ready to pick up by 3. |
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| Bill's Bloody Marys |
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| My friend Carol's father Bill's Bloody Marys have become a staple of my Thanksgiving. She came for pancakes and brought them along. It has been a bit of an odd Thanksgiving, less than traditional, shall we say, but the Bloody Marys were here. Hooray for that! |
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Lewis |
| Not only do I get both sisters and but I get Lewis, the sweetest fellow in the world. He is a snuggler supreme. In January my sister and Greg will go to Paris and I get Lewis! (This is a shake-down cruise, I guess, and all are doing fine.) |
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| Ready for the snow |
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| Last week Martha and Lito and Rolando spent the afternoon tucking things away, neatening things up, and getting my yard ready for the winter. Doesn't it look nice? |
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REALLY ready! |
| And today, after pancakes, my family stacked the truckload of wood I'd gotten last week. It's too big of a project for me right now, but the three of them made it seem like a breeze. Stacked and tidied in about an hour. Amazing. |
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| A word or two from Laurey |
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Yes, it has been a bit of an odd Thanksgiving this year. All is good. All really is good. I feel very thankful for so many things. I have a calendar in my bathroom at home that says, "May there always be an angel by your side." How true that is for me right now with angels everywhere.
The folks at work have taken such fine care of me in these past months. It is rather stunning to be able to stop working, concentrate on healing, and know and trust that all is good at work. We cooked a lot of Thanksgiving dinners this year and I, for one, being one of the beneficiaries, am most grateful. It's the first time I have not cooked in a long time, but it was great to share a dinner with my sister, parked in front of "The Music Man" on Thanksgiving night, singing away as if all was perfect. It really was, in its own way.
My sisters and I usually get together in Kentucky for our big dinner but this year they opted to come here which was very nice for me. We celebrated this morning with Buckwheat pancakes. Different and quite delicious. Next year we'll go back to turkey. For this year, just being together was all I needed. Them too, I suspect.
And I am surrounded by angels in my friends who call and write and send little notes and good wishes. The collection of these thoughts grows and grows and fills me up.
I have doctors and nurses who care so much too. They are a part of my life right now, caring deeply about how I am. I am not a statistic to them, but am an important individual. I did not expect this level of care and it is deeply moving.
So this Thanksgiving has been just right. Not the usual, but one more special than those usual ones. I am healing and I am surrounded by angels and that is a very good thing indeed.
I do hope your day and days have been filled with love like mine have.
I'll tell you a story or two next week. |
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Heather decorates The Biltmore |
My middle sister got to be a Christmas Elf at the Biltmore Estate this year. I managed to track her down a couple of times. Here she is putting one of 50 strings of lights on ONE tree!!!! Yes. You heard me.
She had her hands in many of the trees on the Estate. Go Heather! |
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