I got up early this morning and walked for a half hour. Felt awesome even though my right knee is trying to tell me it is boss. I'm ignoring it...stubborn stiff knee. Now doing a few things around the house...cleaned the kitchen and doing some laundry. I just love puttering around my house on the weekends...happy as a pig in slop, I am! LOL

My grandmother used to say that all the time...starting to miss my family who is no longer with me...especially this time of year heading into the holidays. I remember good times of sitting around the dining room, breaking beans with my mother, grandmother, aunt and cousins and hearing all of their stories...smelling all of the tremendous cooking smells, talking about recipes or just listening to the chit chat as family does. I miss that...October always held discussions of canning, new things to try for upcoming holiday meals or talking about recipes of what they planned to fix for various functions at home, church or at other relatives' visits. My grandmother, mother, favorite aunt, great aunt, grandfather, father, favorite uncle and cousin Michael are all in heaven now. It's just me (VA), my brother (KY), niece (FL) and cousins (IN) left now, but we're all spread out, so won't be together during the holidays. I try to look at the holidays as just another day, but it's hard. So, Nov and Dec will be a challenge for me...

Are you guys starting to think of the holidays yet? What are your plans?

Gotta go drop another load in the washer...I'll be back shortly...
Jessica

@jessicakrall8 we had our first holiday earlier this month and celebrated Thanksgiving. I start thinking about and planning holidays in September typically. Holidays are little tricky here since COVID. It seems people have gotten use to doing their own things all the time that making time for family isn’t a priority. My husband and I typically host either thanksgiving or Christmas. We did thanksgiving for my husbands family this year.