Meanwhile, Christmas is keeping is nice and distracted. A few days ago I drove the kids from our home in Birmingham, AL to my mother's house in Monroe ville, PA. There are many reasons for this trip. The most important is that we get to spend some time with our oldest daughter Kayla before we bring Lily home and before she starts school in January. I am SO proud of her right now. She's working hard at her new job and is looking forward to starting school. Despite a challenging few years, she is all grown up and working towards independence. Of course she still needs her Mama. Mike will be joining us here tomorrow in Kayla's car, which will be left here for her to use to get to school and work.
The kids and I stayed in a hotel on the way to PA, which of course was an adventure. We stayed in Louisville, KY and had the best Chinese food ever. Normally I would not order in, but because of the time of day and location we really had no choice. I'm thankful for that because those dumplings were amazing. I swear I want to drive back through Louisville on my way home just for those. Thankfully, I think we'll find even better Chinese dumplings in China. Check out my fortune cookie. I admit I'm a little challenged when it comes to housekeeping, so this was kind of funny.
We got to PA, settled in, went to bed and spent the next day enjoying each other.
We visited Kayla's workplace, which is a really cool store that sells things for $5 or less.
After that, we took her to her favorite yarn store here in Pittsburgh, Natural Stitches.
Then we went back to my mom's house to open presents. The kids were thrilled!
This was Kayla's gift to me. She's knows me quite well!
And after presents, we hopped in the car and went to Overly's Country Christmas.
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