It’s now Monday 12/5) at 4 PM and I have to try to re-create what has happened???  We picked up Marc and Kate at the airport around 11:30 on Thursday:

 and came home to eat and talk.  Michael and I had square dancing in the afternoon and by the time we got home, it was time to go out to dinner.  The kids took us to an Asian restaurant and we all enjoyed our dinners.  We got home around 8 and everyone was kind of tired, so we all sat in the living room, in front of the fire, reading or sleeping or a little bit of both.

Friday morning (12/2) Marc and Michael had a big fry-up for breakfast and then headed to the golf links.  I continued to work on Christmas candy (and it is all finished...hooray!),

while Kate got in just a bit of work on her laptop (after we borrowed the password from our neighbors so that we could use their wireless connection).  Marc and Kate and I had ham and bean soup and rolls for dinner, while Michael finished up the leftover pizza.  We left around 7 to head towards Charlotte to see A TUNA CHRISTMAS…a hysterical play that everyone loved.  We stopped at Amelie’s (a French bakery) on the way out from the theatre and picked up a variety of treats for Saturday.

Saturday Michael and Marc left for horseshoes while Kate and I held down the fort at home….cooking for our ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner.  Michael made potatoes and carrots when he got home and Harry and Martha arrived at 6 for turkey, stuffing, potatoes/carrots, green beans, salad, homemade cranberry sauce and rolls.  We played PIT after dinner, and a new game called ‘telephone pictionary’.  It was a really fun evening with LOTS of laughs!  It truly was a wonderful visit with Marc and Kate....they are wonderful together and bring lots of fun along with them:

Sunday (12/4) everyone was up at 5 to get the kids to the airport by 6 am.  It was really sad to see them go…but you know what my dad would have said….”keep paying into that social security”!  We wanted to go out to breakfast on the way home, but nothing is open at 6:30 am on a Sunday in North OR South Carolina…so we came home and went to bed!  We certainly felt more like ourselves when we got up at 8.  I had a quick breakfast and tried to pull together stuff for the FINAL (YAY!!!!!) craft fair.  Michael loaded the car and drove me up to the Lake House and carried everything in around 10:30.  I was all set up by the time the fair started at NOON.  He came to pick me up at 4, and I came home and both of us lay around like dead things the rest of the night!