Afternoon all&#33; Hopefully I&#39;m done with the food store except the express aisle for the last minute stuff. I can&#39; believe how expensive food has become&#33; Also went to Kohl&#39;s and since there is no other shopping nearby, it was empty. Picked myself up a few tops at good prices and some ornaments for the tree next year. Beautiful day here in Florida and more to come. <br /><br />Jenn, yes the wine store gives samples........LOL&#33;  I love the gingerbread house story. I&#39;d have used the glue gun too&#33; What a sport DH was to eat it&#33;<br /><br />Steve glad the &quot;Celebration of Life&quot; for your friend went well. Laughing is way better then crying and a much better way to honor someone&#39;s life.<br /><br />Jackie hope your tax prep went well. Not exactly exciting I know but part of the life. I&#39;ve already started to play with the first draft of the program we use but still have so much more to learn.  Get out your sweater again for Christmas Eve Jackie......another cold front is coming&#33;<br /><br />Tonia, how nice you are there for your niece. My niece and nephew came to me &amp; later Howie a lot when they were young.  Can Howie come to your house for Christmas dinner?? He&#39;d rather have Prime Rib than pasta......LOL&#33;<br /><br />Cheryl, love the Scotty story. I always did stuff like that to my kids. Sounds like you bought out the stores&#33;  Yes wearing my leather coat is a definate luxury here. May be able to wear it again next week&#33; I&#39;m cold when we get below 70, anything between 70-80 is perfect weather to me. <br /><br />Shari I&#39;m sure the pre-made ornaments are lovely and they serve the purpose you intended to honor your parents. Hope you had a marvelous 60th Birthday&#33;<br /><br />Marylou glad you&#39;ll get to see your son this weekend. It&#39;s so hard to do everything at this time of the year.<br /><br />Joey thanks for the shopping tip. I may go over to the site since DH&#39;s birthday is February. Does it ever end????? At least this year I don&#39;t have to shop for DD, Howie and I are paying for all the expenses and the cruise for her birthday. Only have to buy a card&#33;<br /><br />Hi to everyone I missed. Seems like we&#39;re all pretty hectic at the moment. Have a great evening all&#33;