This is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. We leave tomorrow for Memphis where we will spend the holiday with Jesse and her family. I am less prepared for the trip than I would like. I haven’t packed anything. Neither have I spoken with Jesse for a few weeks, so we haven’t coordinated on anything. I suspect neither of us is too worried there. We both know that she will be bearing the lion’s share of the load. The past few years she has been the one to cook the turkey in the Big Green Egg that she gave to Greg a couple of years ago. Since he travels a lot, she has been the one to use it.
This morning I took care of things like paying some bills and communicating with someone at United Way regarding a committee project on which I am working. We made our usual trip to Panera. Kate was up early again. We were there before 8:30 and back home by 9:30. We had haircuts at 11:00. We went to lunch from there. We had a 1:30 appointment to sign some papers at the bank and got back home about 2:15. Kate worked outside while I went to the grocery to get a few things to take to Jesse. Shortly after getting back, Kate came in from outside and wanted to go to Panera again. We will leave here in a few minutes to get ready for the evening. We are going to see a production of Sound of Music at 7:30 and will have dinner prior to that.
The day has gone well thus far. Kate’s good mood continues. Tomorrow we will stop in Nashville for lunch with the Robinsons, old friends from TCU. He is a retired philosophy professor at Vanderbilt. We won’t have time for a long visit, but it will be nice to see them. I sent a text to Jesse telling her to expect us between 5:00 and 6:00 tomorrow afternoon.
