Plans are in place...

Plans are all completed for Thanksgiving.  We didn't know if we would go out to dinner (to make it easy) or cook dinner (for the leftovers).  Well, we compromised.  We are ordering a full dinner from Mimi's Cafe.  Everything is included, all we have to do is reheat the turkey...so we'll have all the aromas,the leftovers and we'll still make mom's wonderful cranberry relish and salad...without all the work.

After Thanksgiving we are going to start decorating for Christmas.  Mom and I decided to put the tree in the bay window, and Mike and I know where all the lights are going.  We're going to really deck out the house this year, inside and out. The only thing we're still trying to figure out how to decorate the cactus garden outside the bay window that holds the statue of our Blessed Mother.

I'm having a hard time knowing this will be mom's last Christmas season with us but comforted knowing the next season she'll be with Christ and with us in spirit.

This is the garden right when we planted it...the plants are quite a bit larger now...
Leave a message if you have any decorating ideas.