Welcoming Home Steve, Winning NaNoWriMo, Thanksgiving & More

Well, it's the day after Thanksgiving and I have so much to say and so much to be thankful for.

On Tuesday, November 25th,  my husband returned home from an overseas deployment in Some Places Where There is War.  We got to meet him in the airport terminal and Brenna & Mickey hugged on him and would not let go.  We have special spaghetti dinner with garlic bread and home made coffee cake.  

Wednesday, we packed up the car to drive home to Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving.  During the nine hour drive from Norfolk to the farm, I polished off the last 2,700+ words to get over 50,000 words on my NaNowriMo novel.  This is the first year in all years I have done NaNoWriMo, that I have actually won. 

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My family keeps asking me "what did you win?" and I think they expected the prize to something substantial like money or having novel published when it was finished.  They seem really disappointed when I tell them "nothing"  or  "the satisfaction of knowing I did it."

Yesterday was Thanksgiving and I got to meet my brother's new woman, Robin.  I am not sure how I really feel about her.  It seems weird to have a strange woman calling my parents 'mom' and 'dad' (and she seriously sucks up to  my dad, so that is even more weird).  

Tonight, Steve and I are leaving the kids with Mom and Dad so we can have an "adult night" all to ourselves.  We almost ever do anything like this, but I think that after this past 11 months, we more than deserve one.  We are going out to dinner and maybe a movie and then spending the night in a hotel.  

Hope every one had a great Thanksgiving!