I Always Love the Day After Turkey, But I Have No Idea How (Or Why) Anyone Goes Shopping. There's Decorations to Put Up & That Is an All-Day Affair

Wednesday. Preparation. Thursday: Preparation, Cooking, Friends, Family, Eating, & Cleaning Up. Friday: Lights, Tree, Decorations, & Gifts I Purchased on Clearance the Day After Christmas. In other words, this is a heavy three days of non-stop labors. Of course, we do this with tryptophan running in our system. There's also long walks with Karal, and she seems to be acting as if she did all the work. Lys & Chitunga went out to meet Gino last night, and she simply curled up like a fox and fell asleep. 

The outside lights are out, the tree is up, the knick-knacks are distributed, and a pile of things to be given out and wrapped are stored to a corner. I also folded two loads of Thanksgiving laundry from the place settings and table cloths. Chitunga was good about washing them last night (which I appreciate...today, however, he was moving slow...perhaps a little too much of the bourbon gifts from so many. Hey, it's his 29th year...let him live with joy and the very slow morning that followed. 

The two tables now have their holiday place settings, including the hope placemats I picked up on clearance a few years ago (back when Christmas Tree Shop still existed and there were more places to actually shop. Not many of those types of stores left, but I know where the few still existing are - and I love cleaning them out when I get the good deals.

And it's leftovers galore. We ate well again the day after, but still barely put a dent in any of the food. I think it is because this year charcuterie boars were in every room and you just can't help but snack from them, especially when there's cranberry jalapeño jam.

Chitunga and Lys are taking a road trip to Mystic today and spending the night, so the home-front will be rather quiet. Here's hoping he is not taking my car so I have wheels to live a life. It's all good. I simply love having him here in his old habits, especially seeing how he shares his life with Alyssa ('babe'). I love watching them together.

Now, however, I must get the week ahead prepared, and lay out plans for the grant that was just received. I love having the ability to do for kids and teacher. It is the kindling that fuels the fire & purpose. Happy Saturday.