We got back to Santa Barbara about 5PM.
Had a great time.
On Thanksgiving we first went to Mark and Alyson's house in Pasadena. He is Dana's brother. They have a beautiful big two story house. I had a room and bath on the first floor and Carolyn and Dana stayed in a little guest house in the rear. So we were all very comfortable.
Dinner was at the older Gamble's neighbors. I have been to their home before because for the last about 40 years they have traded with the Gambles. There were 16 people at the meal. Dana's parents are both very sick, especially his father who is now on total dialysis. He is always tired and can hardly get around.
ON Friday Mark, Alyson, Matthew (4yrs old), Grace (18 mos) and D,C, F and Claire ,took the train ,"downtown" to Alvarado Street. Alvarado Street is about three blocks long and is like old Mexico. All kinds of open shops etc. We went to a little restaurant where Robyn and Dexter met us for lunch. After about three hours we took the train back to Pasadena. The kids loved the whole thing. So did the adults. We had pizza and watched football last night.
Today I visited with Dana's parents while Carolyn and Dana did some shopping and chores for them. It was a great weekend.

Today I remembered I had not yet made Nana Mix! I take it to the Gambles every Thanksgiving. Put it in a special container and when they next come to visit they return the container with fresh fruit from their fruit trees.
Well here is what happened to day....
At 7am I went to the store for the ingredients.
Made two batches in the oven and decided to make one in the microwave. I have never made it in the micro before. Well I put it in a microwaveable bowl...or at least I thought it was microwaveable. It wasn't! It smoked up my whole kitchen. I quickly picked up the bowl, which had a hole in the bottom and tossed it into a trash bag. Plastic of course, so it burnt a hole in the trash bag too. I think I will stick to the oven method.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL.

Robyn and Dexter came up to visit on Monday and stayed until last night.
HE IS SO ADORABLE! He just smiles and coos all day long. a real sweet heart.
We had such a nice time. On Monday we went to ,"Polar Bear", a wonderful store in Santa Barbara where all kinds of kids things are sold cheap. Some are on consignment. Robyn got about 4 little outfits for less than $20.00. The Gambles came for dinner and Claire was so cute with Dexter. She kept patting him . She was very gentle. Yesterday we went to,"replay" a used toy shop.
I am so lucky that my DIL likes to come up to visit with Dexter. She comes up almost every month for a couple of days.

Today Carolyn and I took Finn,Aidan and Claire to the Natural History Center. The boys had a great time and Claire spent most of the day pushing her own stroller. She thinks that is the purpose of strollers.
After that I came home and watched football. Now New England is winning 56 to 10! I am pretty sure they play the Eagles next week. EE K!!

(Part TWO..see below for part one)

Finn and I went to bed at 10pm, Claire woke up at 11:30. She was not up too long and slept until 6:30 am.
this morning I took them to Cody's for breakfast. Its a neat little restaurant that I have been taking Finn to since he was four months old. Claire ate a whole kids breakfast, Finn about 1/2.
Than we went to my house so Finn could play some of my computer games. Got back to their house about 11am and Claire slept for two hours. I cleaned up the house a little. Made them lunch, cheeseburgers and applesauce. Than we went for another walk. Carolyn and Dana came home about 3pm., niece Maureen and Aiden came about 4pm. She is 8 months pg. looks great. Dana made tri tip steak for dinner. Both Dana and Maureen had birthdays this week. The boys, Finn and Aiden had a great time. I came home about 8PM and I am going to bed!

I again have had trouble posting to both this Blog and my other on.
I am going to put this one on both Blogs to see if they both come out.
Well, anyway I minded Finn and Claire for a WHOLE 24 HOURS! It was Dana's birthday. They went to a nice resort about two hours away. They said they had a great time. First time away together since Claire's birth.
Here some of the things I did..
Took them to the hospital so I could get my flu shot., left my purse in the room, went back to get it ,got back to the car and Claire was missing a shoe. We went back in hospital to look for it but could not find it, got back to the car and it was under the wheel. Then I took them a long way to the cheap ($3.67 per gallon) gas station, but the line was so long I just went back to their house and took them for a walk around the back. I made dinner of mac and cheese, veggies and fruit. Claire ate everything, Finn not so much. Tried to put Claire to bed at 7PM which is her bedtime. She finally went down at 8:30. Finn and I watched game shows on TV, he loves them. (MORE LATER).

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I have no idea how my email got on this blog!

Rosemary to answer your comment from my post weeks ago.
Norma has the same car. She hit the curb and claims that caused all of her problems, even tho she had the problems BEFORE she hit the curb.
I don't know why she has to take the driving test again. I knw it has nothing to do with the accident. No police, no insurance etc.
Nothing is going on here. Went to church and breakfast with Judy Smith. I worked with her at Hospice and she is the hospital Discharge Planner who was so good to me.
I will see the Oncologist on Tues. to get the lowdown on the NEG PET scan.
Great game today.

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I spent the day.
Went to be with Claire while Carolyn went to the store.
Finn's class went to see a play today and than did not have school, so one of his friends and her mom were coming for lunch.
Than I took Norma to get her hair cut. I got my done too. Looks okay.
She sprang for lunch because I am only going to lunch once a week and I am taking the RN (a friend) who called me to tell me the good news, out to lunch on Friday.
Than she asked me to print out the driving test from the DMV because she has to take the test again. Stay off the streets if she gets her license back.
Than I WEnt back to watch Claire because Finn, Varolyn and Dana had to go to Finn's school for his ,"review". He came out with lying colors of course.
Tonight I ain't doin noting!

GOOD NEWS!
My PET scan was negative. Yeah, yeah.
I don't really have any details yet but I am so happy. I have been worrying about this since I got the results of the cat scan on July 2nd.
I see the Oncologist on the 13th.
Didn't do much else.
I did just spend an hour trying to get pictures on my Blogs. Seems I now have 3 blogs. Hoho, the last one is called BettysPagetwo-ebj. I don't think the pictures every came up. Any way it is way too much trouble.

Don't faint!!
I just have not signed in for awhile.
Today I had my PET scan. It went well but, I don't know when I will get the results.
Went over to Carolyn' after the test and we went for a long walk with Finn and Claire.
Yesterday I watched Claire and Finn while C&D went wine tasting. It was in the area where the movie, Sideways was filmed. They had a good time. I watched all my teams lose in football! I heard Pat Molloy yelling at Donovan all the way out here.
I don't have anything else to say.
I'll try to write back tomorrow.