Busy, Busy, Busy!

We are in the midst of a busy weekend! We spent the morning at the grocery store shopping for the fixings for tomorrow's Thanksgiving meal with Greg's family, and getting the house re-organized after a two week stint of sicky laziness. Shopping for a gluten-free Thanksgiving meal is pretty involved if you are not accustomed to the diet on a day to day business, but this is year number three and I think I'm getting into a groove with it. We will be having a completely gluten-free menu right down to the apple crisp with gluten free oats, which I have just this moment realized I've forgotten to ask Mimi if she has any of, so maybe dessert will have to be altered! In addition to preparing for tomorrow, my aunt Helen from Scotland is in the states visiting her daughter who has been working in New York City for the past couple years and they both flew in this morning to spend the weekend (at my mum's house). So we've just returned from dinner at my mum's with the whole family, what a lovely time we had! It was Ana's (and baby Stevie's) first time meeting Aunt Helen, and Ian is just absolutely in love with Catherine (my cousin) so it was just a really nice night for everyone! Tomorrow morning we will go back to visit for an hour or so before returning to get busy on the Thanksgiving feast before everyone arrives. Then we'll have to really kick ourselves in gear tomorrow night to get everything done that we wanted to before little Stevie starts coming to spend his day's with us on Monday. Please pardon all my run on sentences, my mind is going a wee bit fast at the moment! It's extremely busy, but really, it's the best kind of busy there is!