Monthly Archives: November 2005

Black Friday 2005

My niece and I were supposed to be out the door and at Kmart before it opened at 6:00 AM. It is a good thing that I overslept. When we arrived an hour late a man walking in with us said that he had heard on his scanner that the police had been [...]

Aidan’s 2005 Thanksgivings

At the Thanksgiving dinner table we each shared five things that we were grateful for in 2005. Hopefully this will become an annual tradition. Someday it will be fun to go back and read them all.
Aidan, at four years of age, is thankful for:

His favorite blanket
His bed
His favorite pillow
His sister
His mommy

Happy Thanksgiving 2005

The turkey is in the counter top roasting pan, the pumpkin pie is in the oven and we are sifting through the Black Friday ads that came in today’s newspaper (thicker than a typical Sunday paper).
I am so happy that my sister and niece are here to join us for Thanksgiving. I remember the [...]

Wrong Turn on Trip Back from Atlanta Airport

The word will get out eventually, so I might as well admit it publicly. Aidan and I drove to the Atlanta airport late this morning to pick up my sister and niece from Buffalo, NY. On the way back we stopped at the Barrett Parkway exit to look for a lunch spot. [...]

Call My New Old Phone

Thanks to some kind and resourceful people who held on to their old Sprint phones, I am once again able to make and receive wireless calls. As previously reported, I sent my old phone to drown in the washing machine. I then made the decision to wait and see versus renewing my contract [...]