| Ahhhhhhh...I never thought this could ever happen ever again but it did, I had a nice evening without stress -- well, stress-less? no, but very do-able stress, and FUN! Even though my day started out with an emergency appointment at the DDS, and this being day number two (i.e. 3 times missed), without one of my meds, (Gordy, my hero du jour, took Mom with him and headed north to Oak Harbor to get the script from the Doctor's office and delivered it by hand to the pharmacy [yes, one of *those meds* that they won't take fax or phone ins]) which I took at 4:30 [I was feeling very nauseous and feared another episode to the ER -- but it subsided after taking the Rx. ] Then there was lots of scrambling to make things look good, play catch up with some US mail, (horrors, I found a note of termination of phone service if not paid...oh my -- it fell through the cracks!] and we all worked to ready the house for company. Gordy was just finishing setting up the christmas tree, and me finding music for the CD player, and adding some more holiday lights and candles and touches in the living room, when Kim and Doug arrived!!! They came bearing gifts of food, [Millie's Pizza, yes, ours was cut in squares...] and a gorgeous, home made cake -- perfection of fresh lovely tart cranberries dipped in sweet orange juice, with a light, sweet icing adorning it, and a gorgeous berry to complete the work of art...made, with love and expertise, by Kim. And if that wasn't enough, she brought prezzies for Mom and me to boot! Wow. Food eaten, and prezzies opened, happy all around, we all sat at the table in the living room and played, for the first time for the Gillman-Coale's (aka Walden Loopers) King's Cribbage! Mom and Kim were teamed up, and Douggie, Gordy and I were on our own. Dang, I really did poorly, but towards the end, my only goal was to not let Gordy beat me -- phew! I edged him out by a coupla points...so all was right in the world after all ! Oh, I hope so very much that we do more "game nights" in the future. It was good company, competition and teasing, and putting one's brains to something other than worrying and planning and regretting -- and it was a fun time [despite Mom's frustration at not being able to REALLY play, the rules were just too hard to grasp by her, and counting cribbage is rough at best, add to it, a board, and it doesn't fly]. I do think that maybe I will try scrabble with Mom in the future, even though words elude her when she tries to speak and communicate lately, but maybe she can still spell and puzzle out words with letters jumbled, we'll see. It would do her good to accomplish something and do well at it. Anyhoooo, nice night. Really really REALLY nice night. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...
## PS afterwards, after clean-up, Gordy and I sat snug on the couch and watched the festive lights, and fireplace burning, and vegetated, while Mom sitting in the adjacent "comfy chair", and Zach curled nose to tail on the bench, and Olivia high up on the cat-castle...just being. Ooooooh lovely!
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