Merry Christmas Y'ALL

By now it's probably no secret that I was born and raised in Oklahoma. We moved up to Kansas about 18 years ago but we still make at least one if not two trips a year down there to see my paternal grandmother and other family. This year we decided to go close to Christmas time - just for a change. My grandma doesn't do a lot of holiday decorating anymore, so we put the tree we keep in the girls' room in our van, along with the rest of our gear, and headed down to OKC the weekend before Christmas.

This is kind of a scary morning picture of myself but it's the only record of my being there. It also shows my curly out of the shower hair. We don't worry about filling our time with lots of activities on our visits. Instead, we do just that --- visit.

The girls had a nice time too. They especially love their Great-Grandma's kitty, Delilah, although Delilah is pretty shy.
They also had fun jumping on the bed. This was as we were packing up to go and getting the beds remade and such.

One of the things we had planned to do all along on this visit was to make caramel corn. It was fun to do it together and it turned out perfect. While we waited for the caramel corn to bake, I was able to show my Grandma my sewing machine - so we played around on that for a while and I think now she's convinced that she needs one just like it. ;)

I love visiting with my grandma. We always have great talks where we feel enlightened and even better acquainted. I always tell her that everyone needs a Grandma Patty. She sees the best in you and builds you up. I'm continually feeling the need to remind and tell her that I'm not perfect, have lots of faults and am not nice all of the time or possibly even most of the time. ;) I guess you could just say that Grandma Patty brings out the best in you.

One of the things we decided to do was to go and look at Christmas lights one evening. We drove to a very nice, established neighbored famed to have great lights. We saw LOTS of great light displays, sang carols and ate peanut butter M&Ms.
Ava was sad to go and didn't want to leave Great Grandma Patty's house. She's since recovered - especially since Santa was able to find her here...more on that to come.