Black Friday

It all began at noon Thursday November 25th when I left the warmth and stability of our home to go to my friend Chrissy's and then Black Friday shopping! On my way I stopped for a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch of Holiday gas station smoked turkey and cheese deli sandwich and a pumpkin spice latte...yummmy...not.
The roads were not the best since it had just dumped a boat load of rain turned to ice the day before and snow on top of that but I was determined to make the Black Friday shopping event.
I arrived at Chrissy's at 5pm to find her and Kim making their list...list I said, I thought we were going just for fun not to shop! How dumb was that, after all I have known Chrissy forever and I KNOW how she loves to shop..what was I thinking!
We took about an hour snooze and got up at 11pm leaving for Mankato at 11:30 because after all Walmart had sales at midnight! Did I say that it was colder than cold that night as well? Not at all a nice night.
Much to our surprise Walmart was relatively calm at midnight..phew. I actually picked up quite a few things...but then....Target at 4am. Now that was a madhouse where Chrissy almost got herself smacked by the husband of a women who was bitching belligerently at a Target employee. Chrissy saw fit to say outloud, so that the husband could hear her, "It's not the check out guys fault leave him alone". Oh dear here we go I thought. But nah the big burly guy just looked like he was going to deck Chrissy, smarted off a bit and then walked away thank goodness.
We shopped from midnight Friday until 7:30 that morning and after a much needed breakfast back to Chrissy's for a few hours sleep because I had to babysit the girls (Julia and Shelby) at 6 that night! It was a whirlwind but was a blast.

The before preparation-Chrissy, Kim and Kenya


The during

And the after
Kenya didn't even know that I was taking her picture
And Chrissy told me to get out!
Alrighty then the girls. Babysitting went well on very little sleep. Poor Shelby did not want to go to sleep and Julia the trooper kept herself busy all night while Grandma rocked and held Shelby. Yep, that Julia is two going on four I am sure!
She does love her little sis and always wants to help. Shelby is just starting to eat cereal and Julia wanted to help feed her.

I would love to know what was going through Shebly's mind at this moment!
Mommy and daughter pedicure time. I asked but Kel wouldn't do mine.
Oh and the addition....David got the metal ceiling up in the new living room, the rooms are painted and we had our second set of guests a few weeks ago. Jess and Kim spent a long weekend and gave a thumbs up for the addition.
While 'down south' I had my second ST scan. Doc C wanted to see if the nodule was still in my lung and if it was he talked about sending me to a pulmonologist. We knew that it was not cancer, in fact I do not have a single cancer cell in my body, but he did want to know what the heck it was. The nodule is still there but the radiologists all agreed that it is just a nodule and needs no follow up at all. AND I found out that I also have a nodule on my adrenal gland. That one is nothing as well, they are both just there but nothing to worry about.
So, it's cold up here and I am done with my Christmas shopping, bring on the holidays!