Another day of laughter and good times!

My sister works from home some days so I sleep to my leisure just like I am a teenager or something. I have my own private suite here and a sleep number bed! Wow! She gives me her room even though I tell her not to.

When I get up I try to be as quiet as I can so she can work. I take my shower and dress and work on organizing my make-up bag which desperately needed it!

I hear a knock at the door and Sis brings me a cup of Pecan coffee. And then you wonder why I would drive 14 and 1/2 hours to get here! She does for me all the things I do for everybody else back home… here I get the royal treatment.

Sis returns to her office to work and I do what I do best and that is to Christmas decorate. Granddaughter Kaylee had started putting ornaments on the tree the night before but there were many left so I decided to try and make one of those coat hanger wreaths like I had been seeing on Facebook. It was easy and fun and turned out so pretty.

Sis comes back through and tells me she has 7 more charts to audit and then she will shower, dress and we will go into town and pick up some stuff at Hobby Lobby and grab a late lunch. I am all for it as I meant to get to Hobby Lobby before I left but never found the time.

On the drive here I noticed that the  mesquite trees just hang loaded with mistletoe. Every year I want Mark to go hunt me some and he has to shoot it down and last year he got fussed at by a property owner while getting it so I’m thinking why can’t I just grab some here somewhere before I leave since it is so plentiful. We drive by the city cemetery on our way into town and the tree lined sidewalks have trees just loaded and I am tall enough that I could just reach up and grab it! Of course I am running my mouth about it to Sis and she is laughing when I ask if I would get in trouble! I am always the country bumpkin that makes everyone laugh when I go somewhere new.

We do our shopping first as we decided that I would probably need a nap after lunch since I had been awake for 22 hours the day before. We finish our shopping and then Sis asks me what or where I would like to eat and since I cull nothing I tell her to choose.

She takes me to The Pioneer Restaurant as it was a family favorite when her daughters were small and even though it’s an older restaurant it has great food!

We walk in and the greeter meets us and asks how many and if we want a table or a booth and my sister says booth and asked that we be placed away from the breath of the door as it is freezing outside!

I look to the right where all these booths are and see what looks to me like propane wall heaters hanging in every booth… I think to myself how odd that is but Texas does have extreme winds and the building was very old so I think I have it all figured out by the time we walk to our booth.

We sat down and our sweet little waitress comes flying over and brings us chips and salsa and also squeeze bottles of homemade ranch and thousand island and it is meant to put on the homemade chips they just brought. Boy! It was so good like that. I look over at this thing on the wall and exclaim, Oh, it’s a jukebox…. I thought it was a propane heater!

Well now, just look at this! From a distance would you have thought it was a heater…. it’s BIG! Of course everything is in Texas.

When I said my comment about it being a jukebox and I thought it was a heater, my Sis says…..WHAT! The belly laughs start because sister already wants mistletoe from the city cemetery and now thinks jukeboxes look like heaters.

Like I said, you can’t take Lucy anywhere. This afternoon we go Christmas caroling at the nursing home where my nieces work… no telling what Lucy will get into there. I am wearing my snowflake sweater.

The JOY of the LORD is our strength. Be happy today…. Christmas is coming!