Weekend

I told Adam that we have come full circle.

When Adam was in graduate school and we didn't have much money, our big treat was to go to McDonalds for dinner.  Adam would get a meal and I would get a cheeseburger.  I would share with Braeden, who was a toddler at the time.  We would all share the fries and I would share the drink with Adam.

Friday night Adam and I were not all that hungry and split a kids meal at Iceberg.

Staring down senior citizenship....

Adam was gone for a good part of Saturday with the young men so I decided for the first time to start decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving is late and we're going out of town and I decided I would be happy to come home to decorations.  

I have not done the trees (waiting for Emma) and I still have things to move around, but it is mostly done and I'm not sad about that.

I just love red.

Also, I was happy to be home and listen to an audiobook while I hauled boxes and unwrapped treasures.

(I miss my boys in the hauling boxes department.)

In the late afternoon, Adam and I went to Fashion Place Mall, which is such a hopping place.  Malls may be dying, but nobody told Fashion Place Mall.  

We hit the Lego store Insider Weekend along with a lot of other people.  It's not that exclusive of a club!

We stopped at Crate and Barrel for my Stendig calendar.  

I asked Adam if he was going to wrap it in last year's calendar paper (which is my wrapping paper of choice) and he said that the pages weren't big enough.

Church was good on Sunday and then I did family history with Marie Louise, which is always edifying.  I just love her so much.  She told me that she was having a really frustrating time getting names printed so she decided to do three sessions in a row at the temple, just to show Satan that she could.

Don't mess with Marie Louise!

I am 100% convinced that I have an easier time finding names for her because of her tenacity in temple attendance.  We are a team and neither of us could do it alone.

I went to choir practice and we are slowly getting a larger choir, which is nice.

Mark came over and we talked to Emma in Washington and Braeden and Anna and QE in California and we are so happy that later this week, we will all be together.  Mark got a ladder and did the high decorations for me.  I told him he can never move away.  I was reading to QE in the other room and Adam and Mark hung the wall hanging above the fireplace at a 90 degree angle.  I liked it, but Adam told me, "We were prepared to put it the right way if you didn't."

It's almost like they know me and they've done this before.