Keeping the Home Fires Burning

 

We enjoyed our first of the season fireplace fires this last weekend. It will also soon be the last of the autumn decorations, as they will be changed out for Christmas decor after Thanksgiving. 

Outside the last of the leaves are coming down and Tom will mow up the ones on the lawn. 

We are still a ways off from the first frost, more rain on the way instead, so there are still roses. 

We've been trying to figure out our computer/internet issues, but we have exhausted all possibilities aside from maybe buying a new laptop, so I'll just resign myself to the slow process of getting my laptop on line since everything else is working.

This morning we had to get up early to make it to an 8:00 appointment at the KP Medical Center through heavy commuter traffic. I will be scheduled for finger surgery to remove a ganglion cyst on my left hand, "sometime in about three months". That's how medical things go now. 

I have been fortunate to spend some time with my guys this week. Jake was here yesterday, come to use our desktop computer to write a report for his medical team. When you are neurodivergent it is hard to get across to some of your service providers what actually will work to assist you in getting  employment with the right accommodations. They want to "fix" what can't be fixed instead of understanding and providing for your differences. It is frustrating. Anyway we had some good conversations and I know more about my 50 year old son than I have for a long while. I cooked a pot roast and roasted vegetables and he stayed for dinner. 

Today Isaac came over after his work shift at Boeing to help Tom put up the Christmas lights on the house. 

I went for my walk at the park while they worked and they had the lights up and on when I got back home. I can't show you them yet though because no lights until Thanksgiving night. 

We talked about making wreaths, so Tom and I will be gathering wreath materials. Cookie making is also still a requirement, as is fruitcake, so I will have my jobs lined up in the coming days. That will keep me busy and out of trouble. That's good, I guess. I will have plenty of help, but the organizing does always fall to "the Mom", at least until I say no more. None of us are ready for that. 

I guess I didn't  mention that last Friday I spent more than enough at Safeway to get a free turkey. The turkey is in the freezer and will go to Jill on Friday. She will be cooking it at Jan's, where we
will gather in Gig Harbor for Thanksgiving. And I have almost all of my baking supplies for all of the Christmas baking. 

The Holidays are almost upon us!.