Let the holiday adventures begin!

The weekend trip to Michigan and Indiana was packed to the gills spending time with friends and family. I averaged something like 4 hours of sleep a night and still managed to make it to work Monday morning! I got in to Detroit Friday night after an uneventful (and absolutely empty) flight from Memphis. Our wild and crazy Friday night was packed with hula-hoop, dancing, and bowling...all from the comfort of home....

My mother and her brother pulled off a totally surprise, Surprise Party for my grandmother's 90th birthday. She was shocked and extremely pleased to see all the family and friends that gathered.

The 90th birthday is one to celebrate! Once you hit milestones like 70, 80, and 90, it seems like people are once again feel free to admit their age. I find it funny that we start out very proud of our birthdays: "I'm 4 and 3/4"...sweet sixteen...21.... Then somehow we get to a point where it is more socially accepted to hide our age or be embarrassed by it. After enough years pass that silliness goes away and apparently we are again proud - this time at a long-life well lived. Why aren't we just proud of all of the years?!

Well regardless of all those 90 years, my Grandma put her children, grandchildren, and their spouses to the test by outlasting us playing dice and cards on her birthday night. Bet she didn't think she'd be playing 10-penny until 1:30 a.m. on her 90th!


The end of the whirlwind trip was a friend's graduation celebration. I'm pretty certain that we will be hearing more about Dave in the future... folks in politics definitely have a way of being heard.

And so, after quite a few less hours of sleep, some gift unwrapping, and an early morning trip back to Memphis, I returned to my schedule of 5 minute measures. Two days left to pack it all in before heading back to the airport and a trip back HOME! Yeah!!! (No, I'm not excited at all.)