Christmas Parade Night in Tullahoma!

And, all are thankful that the weather isn't like the above picture! This is one of the pictures that I took as we approached the bridge over the Mississippi going into Memphis on Tuesday...rather foggy and wet. Tonight's weather for the parade is clear...but nippy. Graham and Abigail are in the parade...they were so excited as they headed off (and, no, Abigail didn't have on a hundred pairs of underwear...but they both did have on long johns. Goosey and I are party poopers when it comes to the Tullahoma Christmas Parade...just too cold. We found out years ago that the reason that Melany and Nathan wanted to go to the parade was to get the candy that the clowns threw into the crowd. Once we found that out, Woody would offer them a bag of their favorite candy if we didn't have to go and freeze to death!



Woody has helped me take boxes up and down the stairs. He walked to the community center and spun for a little over a half hour. He has read. He has a list of things that he hopes to do on a given day. I think that he finished yesterday's list today. This morning he made pumpkin pudding (one of his specialities...much loved by Abigail and now it seems Elijah) and surprised Nathan, Kathy, and family with dessert for their lunch. We were in charge of Graham and Abigail for a short time before a friend picked them up for the parade. Nathan and Kathy and the three little ones are performing for the Huntsville Homeless Shelter workers and their families. After the parade Graham and Abigail will be dropped off here. We will see that they get warm...hot chocolate and some bedtime stories and I'm sure that they will be ready to go to bed. Woody or I will sit over there till the rest of the family gets home. Tomorrow Aunt Melany (and Erin and Alex) are going to come and take care of the five neighbor children while Nathan and Kathy go Christmas shopping. I will continue to work on my Christmas decorating...have quite a bit done...but still quite a bit to go. Now I am going to post this quickly before I lose connection to the internet again...I was about to post fifteen minutes ago and internet disappeared along with the last paragraph of the blog!