Last Day

We went over to Ed and Julie's home for one last visit today. We packed up the cookies to take to the post office on our way out of town in the morning. Julie was doing a massage, and when she returned, we all went to Costco and then to a Garden Ridge store. Ed described the store as having a very large selection of Christmas decor. It was quite an impressive display, and they were having a sale on artificial Christmas trees. Ed and Julie picked out a large one.


We checked out and rolled the shopping cart with the tree out to the Town and Country. It soon became clear that there was no way that tree was going in the minivan with the six of us. I ended up getting an opportunity to shop for 45 minutes while babysitting the tree. Ed and Ken came back with the truck, which worked out much better, especially since the rain held off.

Ed and Cate and Sam and I played the Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed game, which the kids enjoyed, especially when the bed popped up, knocking the monkeys to the floor. However, the game seems poorly designed for young children, since it's difficult to place the monkeys on the bed without knocking down the other monkeys.

The kids were exciting about decorating. Ed put up a small tree in Cate's room. When we left, he was putting the new tree together, with a little help from Cate and Sam.



Julie made some yummy shepherds pie with some of the Thanksgiving leftovers.