Update on Christmas Meal!
Saturday, December 11. DON'T FORGET YOUR INSTRUMENTS EVEN IF YOU ONLY PLAY THE SPOONS!

Meal: Covered Dish @ 2pm

I'm preparing Chicken Pot Pie, Chicken Salad, Mama's baked corn bread, and a dessert.

Margaret is bringing sweet potatoes, cranberry salad and a dessert.

Hannah is bringing green bean casserole, a dessert and 2 soft drinks.

Christie will bring butter beans and corn, and rolls.

Dad will bring collards.

Lol will bring broccoli salad & a dessert.

Chris B. will bring rolls.

Joyce says she can cook a country ham and a sugar cured ham, potato salad, & maybe deviled eggs.

Cathy is bringing an appetizer, a pumpkin pie and a peanut butter pie.

There are 14 diet Pepsi, 3 Pepsi, 1 orange & 10 Mt. Dew cans of soft drinks left from dad's birthday party

Gifts: My suggestion is "No gifts except to children under 18"

Music: If you play an instrument, please bring it for caroling.

Later, if you email me what your contribution to the meal will be, I'll edit and add it to this entry.

HoHo!

Thanksgiving weekend - Joan's birthday

I forgot something in my last post. On Saturday, we also had a nice surprise. Christie came by Saturday afternoon and spent a few hours with us while we watched the VA Tech/Virginia game and then there was more football, but mostly we talked.
Saturday night, we had eaten enough leftovers and decided to out to dinner. On Sunday morning, Chris went to church with us before leaving around 2 to go back to Macon. I think most know that the rest of his family had gone to Orlando - Universal Studio with Beverly, Michelle's mother. When he decided to go, he was unable to get leave.

Tomorrow is Joan's birthday. Hope it is great!

THANKSGIVING

Like Bertha, we enjoyed our Thanksgiving also. As most of you know, our dinner (midday) was with Gene, Chris and I. We had turkey and all the trimmings. Chris said that he was misable because he ate so much. At the table, he said he could not remember another holiday when it had been so quiet around here. My response was "Thankfully". Then I explained, not thankfully that it was so quiet, but that thankfully than most of the time, there was more activity around. Later in the afternoon, after my short nap, we went over to Cecils (not so quiet-about 24 people and several children) for dessert. We enjoyed visiting with her family and her sisters were glad to get to meet Chris.
We also enjoyed our day on Friday. We met Dad, Joan, Bill, Nancy, BJ, Emma, Chris and his girl friend for lunch in Edenton. After lunch Chris and I went by Mama and Papa Layton's house and he took a picture, then to the Layton family cemetary. There was one stone that I did not who it was, but he has a copy of Ima Jean's book and he knew. On to the other side of the family. We stopped by Christies who was not home, but saw Cory for a few minutes. Then took a picture of the house that I grew up in. Next the Byrum family cemetary. Then he took a picture of the house at Center Hill, which of course is where he has memories.
We then stopped in Elizabeth City and saw Mr. Belvin for a few minutes. He was having dinner and enjoyed our stopping by. His memory is not great, but you still see his humor at times. I asked him when he was coming to Norfolk to see us. He thought for a minute and then said soon and we all laughed. He has it together enough to know that I was joking and that his answer was according.
Looking forward to seeing everyone of the 11th.