It continues to be nothing less than crazy around here, and I know I owe many people emails and practically every blogger friend of mine a comment or two, for which I apologize profusely. I really will get back to “normal” (whatever that is), I promise.

Thanksgiving turned out to be …. small. My oldest sister couldn’t come at the last minute, so of course neither did her boyfriend, then my other sister called about 15 minutes before she was due to arrive to tell me she had just gotten sick to her stomach and felt like crap, so she couldn’t come, either. My oldest son, his wife and my perfectly perfect grandson went to my DIL’s family, so it turned out to just be me, Hubs, my other son, my daughter and my nephew. We had fun, though, and LOTS of yummy food. Yeah, I admit it, I’m a damn fine cook.

A couple days after Thanksgiving, my perfectly perfect grandson picked up yet another virus, causing a fever and terrible diarrhea, and my DIL wasn’t feeling too swift, either. If you remember, my son and his family just got over a horrible bout of stomach flu, with my DIL ending up in the hospital overnight. It’s been very, very rough for them. I spoke to my son last night and he said everyone seemed to be on the mend. *knock on wood*

Then I spoke to my other son a bit later, and he told me he had had TWO migraines yesterday! The first one started at about 1:00AM, with the second coming at around 3:00PM. He’s had an upper respiratory thing going on the last week or so, so I’m thinking that played into it. I told him to get his butt to the doctor ASAP. He probably has a sinus infection and needs medicine! Two migraines in one 24 hour period is pretty bad. It worries me. I swear. If that boy doesn’t make a doctor’s appt., I’m going to do it myself and drag his 6′2″ body down there by his ear! Men!

My oldest friend (as in we’ve been friends since we were literally 2 years old) called Sunday evening and told me her family was selling one of their ranches at auction on Monday, and invited me to be there since I was with her and her grandpa the day he bought it about 38 or 39 years ago. I’ll never forget that day. There we were, two little girls, afraid to move a muscle for fear the auctioneer would think we were bidding on it. LOL As if! But what did we know? Anyway, I couldn’t make it to the auction yesterday, but she called when it was all over and told me everything. It went very well, which I was happy about. It’s so bittersweet as you watch your family elders get older and older and it becomes necessary to do things like that. I know exactly what it feels like. It’s tough to let go of those things sometimes, but memories are forever, which is such a gift.

The ranch they sold is a gorgeous 9,000+ acres of prime pasture land. Their family would have a cattle drive every year, which she would tell me all about when it was all over. I thought it sounded like such an adventure! Such good memories for her and her entire family. I wish I could have been there for the sale. In a way, I sort of feel like I was. I was thinking about them all afternoon, and remembering the day we sat there with her grandpa when he bought it all those years ago. It made me smile. Even giggle.

Memories. They’re such a treasure. What is one of your favorite memories?

Friends, Family, Memories