First, I am very thankful for my wonderful husband, my children and of course the six most fantastic grands that any old fat gramma could ever have.  I am thankful for so many blessing that I seem to have taken for granted.  I am thankful for a savior who died for my sins. 

Tomorrow we will leave to make the trek north to share our Thanksgiving dinner with Josh, Jackie and the girls.  Uncle Roy is coming with us.  I need to inject here that my sweet William is very thankful that Josh decided to let Jackie roast the turkey in the oven rather than deep fry it.    An added bonus, I only have had to make the green bean casserole and the bread dip!

I hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and I will be posting pictures of our day on Friday.  No, I have no intention of fighting the crowds on Black Friday to get a bargain.  While I do love a bargain, it just isn't worth fighting the maniacs  consumers in the early morning hours of Friday.  (I like to sleep in when I can).

On Sunday, we will have Thanksgiving again.  This time, I am doing the cooking as we are having it here.  Susan, Tom, Matthew and Uncle Roy will be joining us.  I extended an invitation to Steph and her family .......ie, Uncle Jim, and Jason and Shelly.  However, I am not sure if they will come or not.  I have no idea when Jason and Shelly will be leaving to go back to VT.  

I get to see my beautiful granddaughters tomorrow.  We are planning to meet them (Josh, Jackie and the girls) so we can try to find them dresses for the Christmas concert.  I am excited, I really miss them.  This will be a special treat as we are planning to go there for Thanksgiving dinner.  Twice in a week's time ........woohoo! 

Uncle Roy is planning to go to Canton with us.  Then on Sun. the 29th, we will have Thanksgiving dinner again here with Uncle Roy, Susan, Tom and my sweet Matthew. 

Did I mention lately how much I love being Gramma or how blessed we are to have 6 fabulous grands????

The basement project is coming along.  They just called from the garbage company and they are on their way to pick up the dumpster.  The space (that we are planning to begin our remodeling in) is totally cleaned out so hopefully we can begin the reno soon   

that maybe it is time for me to update this blog.  Not a lot to say......let me rephrase that.  Not a lot I want to say. 

We have a huge dumpster sitting in our driveway.  We got it on Friday afternoon and they are coming back for it next Friday.  We did get a lot of the basement cleaned out and a lot of the tile off the floor and the old paneling off the wall.  There is still more to do but we (OK, Will) is working on it.  Our original plan was to take up the old tile and clean the floors and then stain the concrete.  I found a new flooring system that I love and Wm. is OK with it.  A lot less work and should go down fast.  But then I am putting the cart before the horse again.  There is a lot of other work to do before the floor can go down.......like putting up new insulation and beadboard.  The old ceiling tiles were ripped off as most were falling down anyway, and I really like the look of the open ceiling.  Just need to paint the ceiling white. 

Next Saturday, we are going to meet Josh, Jackie and the girls at Watertown (1/2 way) so we can get their concert dresses.  Then we will be going to Canton on Thanksgiving to have dinner with them.  I will be cooking another one on Sunday, the 29th for our family here that is not making the trek north with us. 

Guess that is about all I have to say and I do have a mountain of laundry waiting for me.    I know, laundry is usually my favorite chore.  Just so tired lately, and no real reason for it.