Aunt Nan, Alex, David, Matthew, Jonathan, and Steven engaging in a traditional after-Thanksgiving dinner activity: Poker. Grandma and Grandpa's dining room hosts many such activities at every gathering.
Well, it's been a good long time since I have posted anything here, being busy with Blue Bernice and holiday gatherings and all. We had a great Thanksgiving holiday...how about all of you? We saw lots of relatives, feasted on lots of Thanksgiving fare, and made lots of good memories. There were movies, bowling games, card and game playing, and even a trip out to a local restaurant en masse. A good time was had by all.
However, I did finally see the movie Ratatouille...remember how I whined related that no one would go see it with me? Well, coincidentally, Shelley and I both saw it separately this weekend and we are both thinking our time would have been better spent elsewhere. (You can read Shelley's review of it on her blog Insomnimom linked at the left side bar of this page.) I really was not expecting the characters to be quite so "Rat-like." Mark said, "Well, what did you think they would be?" I really didn't know, but I didn't think they would be so Rat-like. I thought they would be cute somehow. They weren't. Not at all. When they were being chased, I turned to Mark and the boys and said, "Do you think it is horribly wrong of me to want them all dead?" They just laughed. Wrong, very very wrong of me...but I really did wish they would all be caught, exterminated, and that would be the end of the movie. My skin is still crawling at the thought of Remy in Linguini's hair...OMW! So it was that I finally got to see the movie after all that time of whining waiting to see it...and all it did was remind me of that old saying, "Be careful what you wish, or you will surely get it." I definitely need to stick with movies like The Illusionist, now there's a great movie.
Am headed out today for volunteering at Guerin and looking forward to MNO this evening to catch up with everyone's holiday news. It is spitting snow as we speak...I am so not ready for winter.