AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 9/26

I love that Halloween brings you joy, especially because it does connect to Esther and her birthday for you. 

My kids used to start begging for Halloween when a neighbor started building the haunted house in his front yard in late August. I always said not until the end of summer. We had so many graveyard pieces they made with DH years ago. A favorite memory is coming home to the sign "beware of physico" which was misspelled by one of them. All of it was passed onto friends with much younger kids so we can visit it every year. 

I'm okay with them outgrowing Halloween, but they also stopped helping with the Christmas stuff. Again, I asked if they were done and just not interested and they were horrified that I might not decorate for the holidays. Since that year, if the tree sits bare for more than a couple days they will ask what night we are doing it. They have also taken over bugging DH about when the outdoor lights go up and help him with them.

I'm sorry you are hurt, scrappintoee. 

I know it is not intentional at all. I know I try to like all the posts, but miss a few going in and out of the thread and I definitely forget to comment all the time. Just coming back to this thread today I realize I meant to wish tmarschall good luck with her procedure and hoping for minimal hurricane impact for Linda. For me, it is a mix of time of day and number of distractions and interruptions while I'm here. In fact, I'm pausing right now, just remembering I need to phone my onc because my PCP wants her thoughts on when I should have Covid & flu vaccines. 

My dd's are Christmas Freaks!  Especially Molly who is 21!   

We take a number of hours on the first Sunday in December for them to come over and help me to decorate my tree and entire condo (used to be house) ... if the place was not decorated they would mutiny!   

I agree! The like doesn't say enough for me...even on FB I use the ❤️ for so many responses. I am guilty of missing yesterday, so I will go back to see your dear pictures. Please know how important you are and I'm thrilled you are back posting again. I'm also grateful we can all have the opportunity to be vulnerable and say hey...I'd really like some attention and compassion here, because we all do get busy sometimes and when it is asked for, it's pretty rare if ever for anyone in here to get "suck it up, buttercup" or some other heartless internet retort. This is a safe place for me, not NC it is a little corner of the internet, but rather bc of who all of you are. ❤️

My procedures went fine...steroid injections in my hips. What the...?! Aging is catching up this year or so! Hoping the next couple of weeks show some good outcomes. I've had ultrasound-led ones before which were no big deal. This was different...still pretty simple, but more than I expected. Nick took me to lunch and I had a burger. It was okay. We hit a couple of thrift stores and came home to curl up on the couch and watch TV.

Love to everyone!

Don’t leave scrappintoee you just came back. I missed why you sil & sister were in town.
I’ve been hit or miss here lately. Not sure why just life I suppose.

I’m in trip prep mode. By that I mean cleaning the whole house and doing all the laundry.
We might get rain from Helene so I replaced some sad plants in my front landscaping. Coincidentally the lsndscapers were here working in the back putting down river rock and a border around it under our deck.
I’ll only be gone 5 days but I feel like I have to overpack as usual.

I did stop in and got a flu shot. I didn’t feel like being ill so I’m delaying the covid one til I get back. Hopefully I don’t get it in the meantime. I do have a headache from it.

The other day I had lunch with DD’s boyfriend’s mom. I was expecting there to be a reason but there wasn’t. She was just being nice.
Had oatmeal for dinner because I didn’t want to cook & clean up.

tmarschall your babies are so cute! I love how you and Nick both get dressed up for their birthday.   

scrappintoee, I love your doggie photos. I have the nurses on my fridge. Please stay w/us. I do listen and I do care and I worry about you. I'll type more to you tmw. I'm very tired from a long flight day, but I want to ensure that you know how much people care about you and want you to be here.

I had a great time w/**GypsyGirl**. I love, "What happens in Houston stays in Houston". I told a big lie and she fell for it. I'm so proud, cause I'm the world's worst liar.

I'll tell you my tales tmw.

Thank you so much for starting the thread, cadoodlebug.

I hope that you, your neighbors and your homes are safe, Linda.

Hoping that your shots work wonders tmarschall. I'm glad that you're back, too.

sueg, please call your doctor. Though you likely just had a post surgical something you should really let your doctor know. Feeling that bad isn't OK. I hope you feel much better tmw.

I'll fill ya in on my trip tmw.