Yes I forget about this thing - probably because life is so exxxxxxxciting! And freezing cold with snow numbing my mind and ability to free-think.
So what's been going on?
I don't even know, things have been crazy first with a gross sickness for a few days. Not as bad as a couple years ago with uncontrolled vomiting - wth was that about? I've always been able to keep my peace until reaching the toilet. This time it was just group agony for a few days, writhing around in bed. These canadian bugs are vicious.
After that it was a trip down to see Maryl's step-sister get married. It was very cute dressing up Holden in a nice sweater and clip on tie, he stole the show as always. We were told to get there by 1:30, unfortunately the ceremony actually started at 1. Complete humiliation was avoided due to the fact that it was a methodist ceremony with lots of group singing, so we snuck in the back during a distraction.
During the week prior, Maryl made me promise not to make her dance, so I was extremely surprised with joy when she surprised me extremely and joyfully by say, eh, foegehtiht let's dance. Pictures of Holden and Mum dancing may or may not be posted depending on quality. Speaking of pictures the poor bridal party had to wait outside for an hour in the freezing snow for picture time. Who has weddings in the winter? It was partly serene and had a nice backdrop I suppose, with snow, snow geese, and more snow. Who knows!
But the real important awesome thing about the last week or two was Maryl putting on a grand American Thanksgiving for me. She knows I'm stuck here for a bit and unable to visit family, so she graciously cooked up a gigantic, delicious meal filled with my favorite things. Stove top stuffing, sparkling cider, brusslesprouts + mashed sweet potatoes, and msg-free gravy. Appetizers included brie and a variety of olives. She knows me well... and loves me, apparently, enough at least to make my gut explode with supreme flavors of yore!
It didn't stop there though! On saturday she baked 8 (9) pies, for us to eat. Banana cream, pumpkin, peach blueberry, apple crisp, chocolate mousse, strawberry rhubarb, lemon meringue, raspberry, and we had a bit of pecan she made a few days earlier. They were all half-size pies of course, but the gluttony was just as evident. My ranking put the banana on top but a surprising second went to the peach blueberry cobbler. After that was strawberry rhubarb... and the rest a blur of deliciousness.
She refuses to acknowledge today as her birthday, and has forbidden me from mentioning it, but I will here anyway because I simply can't NOT. You are entirely too dear for/to me, Maryl, and will be for the rest of my life. I only hope that I can be the same for you, for the rest of your life, unless I die first, then it would still be for the rest of my life as said from the first part before this sentence where I mentioned the rest of my life from you, unless you die first I guess but that won't happen because I'll eat myself to an early grave - I almost wrote gravy there, but it would be from pies most likely, unless there's a lot more of those double decker poultry + stuffing + potatoes + gravy sandwiches in my future.
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