Thankful Thursday!

Honestly, I have no idea what I was thankful for yesterday!  I'm sure I had planned to write about something . . . until this afternoon!  Which took the cake!  Which has made me so happy and so thankful, that I haven't stopped smiling yet - and it's been five hours!

I met with my rheumatologist via video this afternoon regarding my PMR.  After the usual questions, he said to me, "Your labs are so good that I'm going to drop your medication."  TOTALLY.UNEXPECTED.  

I said to him, "You told me to not even ask for a decrease in medication until I've been on methotrexate for two years and it's only been eighteen months.  You can't do this."

But he could. And he did.  And I am thrilled because I really hate taking medications! 

"The Last Time I Saw You . . ."

My first supervisor in Aquatics in 1982 was Gayle.  I ran into her this morning at the Y.  I was going in to swim and she was teaching a cycling class.  The last time I had seen Gayle was almost a year ago when she was in my CPR class AND fighting breast cancer, bald as bald could be.  It was so lovely to see her with hair today and feeling good.  We ended up in the locker room at the same time and said a quick good-bye.

Imagine our surprise when we both showed up at the same retirement party this afternoon in Apple Valley!  It came out in front of every one there, "The last time I saw you, we were both naked!"  

We had a bit of explaining to do . . .  

Looking forward to . . .

Our next planned meeting with the FOO's!  It's going to happen on Matt's twenty-fifth birthday.  We sat around McDonald's yesterday and planned it, down to birthday hats and birthday presents (while Matt was taking his little brother to the bathroom).  And it hit me today - this will be Allison's first time EVER celebrating Matt's birthday WITH him on HIS birth date.  It's going to be special . . . 

Holiday Baking with the FOO's!

Our original game plan was to bake Christmas cookies with the FOO's (Matt and Micah's family of origin) on December 11.  Then it was moved to December 18.  Our next scheduled date was December 27.  Finally, on January 2, it happened!

Allison and the kids arrived around 9:30 a.m. with the girls ready to bake and Lincoln wanting to play trains with Matt.  We had a wonderful morning, followed by lunch at McDonald's (can't ever call McDonald's wonderful!).  Check it out:

 

New Year's Eve Party!

For all of you who are wondering how late I actually stayed up last night, I'm proud to say "10:20 p.m.!" 

However, our New Year's Eve party was held on Wednesday afternoon!  We were all up at Raff's by 4 p.m. and I honestly think we ate the entire evening away!  Seriously, we managed a good four plus hours of non-stop munching and dining!

What made the evening so special is thirty-seven years ago, three of us at Raff's - Ann, Mark and I - had all celebrated New Year's Eve together in Haiti.  That was long before any of us had met our spouses . . . we were there on a missions trip helping to build a hospital, the same hospital that Ann's husband Mike brought electricity to many years later!

 

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