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My last post failed. I hit a button before I even got started writing...and found that I had "published" nothing! Couldn't get back to it because my grandson was hogging my computer at the time.

I got the children safely delivered to their father yesterday evening. The meeting place is in Gary, IN (the Armpit of the Midwest). Meeting them there keeps me out of Chicago traffic...and even though it is an almost-three-hour trip to Gary, I am MOST grateful not to have to brave the construction and congestion of the Interstate 80/90/94 fiascos. As it was, post-Thanksgiving traffic was pretty horrific--bumper-to-bumper most of the way north, and only slightly better on the way south. I/We drove past two dead deer, two dead dogs, three accidents (one of which kept traffic moving at 5 mph or less for 30 minutes), and two flat tires. (The second flat was a blowout that happened right in front of me. It is to the driver's credit that he was immediately aware of the problem and maneuvered across three lanes of traffic at fairly high speeds and onto the shoulder without a hitch. Whew!) Adventures in holiday travel! Thank God, the day was clear and the roads were dry. It could have been a lot worse.

The children and I had a good time together. We had our Thanksgiving feast with the other grandparents. The kids played with the neighbor children, of course. Robin and I baked. (She likes to cook.) We watched movies on TV and ate popcorn. Ryan played Spore on my computer. We put up the Christmas tree and hung stockings. Robin and the neighbor girl went to Grandma Judy's to play with the fairy treehouse. We took a ring to a jeweler to have it resized to fit Robin. We went to church and Sunday School, then had the other grandparents over for lunch afterward. We didn't do anything particularly special, but when they are here, it's ALL special! Except for the first night when we didn't get back to Plainfield until 2:00 AM, we weren't up late any evening, and no one seemed to be too tired to have fun. We also did some hugging and snuggling. That's the very best part!

So now it's back to boring old life as usual. Will be preparing to drive to my sister's a little later in the week. Hope the weather cooperates.