It’s been an interesting Sunday. We headed out to the cemetery to visit those loved ones that are no longer with us and my husband and I ended up getting into a spat, right there at the grave site. The spat was over the dead plant he picked out at the Home Depot (of all places). Enough said.

After the spat, we ended up at Vroman’s, one of my favorite bookstores. I picked up a copy of Loving Frank for myself. I could have spent all day there but I managed to pry myself away after about an hour of wandering around.

Now that I am home, I am feeling a tad under the weather. Just a tad. I am going to pop some vitamin c because it would be my luck to get sick right at the beginning of my two weeks off. While sitting in bed for a bit, I did manage to write my review of The Rest of Her Life which will post here tomorrow.

Tonight is the arrival of the Holiday Toy Express. It’s a train that is decorated for the holidays. It stops at a local station and puts on a twenty minute show. Each year, we take some friends that have Down Syndrome to look at Christmas lights, but this year we are checking out the train instead. We have been doing this since my son was born so that’s a good ten years. We’re hoping that Adam and Debbie enjoy it too as well as our friend Yvonne.

Well, off to tidy up the house a bit. All I did was sit in bed for an hour or so and when I came downstairs, it looked as if a hurricane hit it.

Sigh. Big sigh. This was the first weekend where I had a chance to just sit back and relax a bit. We expected a huge storm to hit, but it never panned out. Worked for me because we didn’t make any huge plans because of it so we just wandered around town a bit looking at Christmas lights and then went to a live Nativity scene which we go to each year.

Later tonight our close friends are coming over for dinner and a Christmas exchange. We decided to order in so no cooking involved! It’s nice to keep things simple sometimes. On that note, I think I will re-work some things for next year to simplify the season a bit. Things this year were a bit complicated and I just haven’t had a chance to savor any one thing. That’s not what the holiday is supposed to be about and it’s bringing me down a bit.

On a book note, I am reading The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty. I’m reading it for Book Club Girl’s discussion which will take place this Wednesday. This book had me at page one. I have not read a book lately that has been able to do that. I am glued to it and cannot put it down. I’m looking forward to finishing up stuff around the house so I can get back to it.

There are still two items I need to pick-up as far as gifts, but it’s looking like I may go the gift card route. I can handle that. I just want to be done! What about you? Are you done with your shopping?