I have been SO hungry for an APRICOT pie!!! Coming home from Houston this afternoon I stopped at Collin Street Bakery for a cup of coffee. GUESS what they had????
I was so excited!! Forget the fruit cake! I wanted APRICOT pie!!!
It was as good as we hoped it would be!!!
We had planned on baking one ourselves this week but will wait until December now that we have had our 'pie fix!' MMmmmmmm......GOOD!!!
It is so nice to be home. I had a lovely time with Amber and - while I really was not QUITE ready to leave - I WAS ready to be home! I KNOW!! It doesn't make sense!
The good thing about it is we will be heading south again in a few weeks for Amber and Mike's annual Christmas Party. We will probably take a day or two to go on down to Galveston. Perhaps I can be there for Dickens on the Strand.....a celebration I have yet to see.
Lucy was happy to see me! I honked at the stop sign and she went wild!!
I admit it! I missed HER, too!!
She and Louis Dean seem to have done some 'bonding' while I was gone.
She has not barked at him since I have been home. Nearly 6 hours now!
He intends to take her out of her kennel
every morning (since HE gets up earlier than I do!) and go for a short walk.
Maybe this will keep us from losing ground with her.
After greeting everyone and unloading the car - mainly the APRICOT pie! - we watched the Cowboy game LD had saved for us to see together. Cowboys WON!!!
I unpacked and put up. Normally I put in a few hours of 'Damage Control!'
You know......Louis Dean being left HOME ALONE for 10 days!!
He is REMARKABLE!! All was well.
Not 'Linda Clean' but not too far from it!!!
Which meant we have been able to visit and catch up and NOT do a ton of housework!
I am loving THIS!!!
So on this Sunday before Thanksgiving I am so very THANKFUL for my home and husband.......for my children.....pets.......health and happiness.
"Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise."
~George Herbert
