Zoiks!

It's been almost a week since my last post. Good thing this isn't my job!
I'm just trying to wrap my head around the fact that we're two days away from Thanksgiving. Where the heck did the year go?
It's strange to think that just 2 1/2 months ago I was talking to my dad on the phone, and now he's gone. My parents came to visit us in March, and I kept thinking how good Dad looked. Healthy and fit. He'd beaten his cancer, right? But I didn't know that no one on his team of doctors and specialists expected him to survive. That he hadn't beaten it, only bought himself more time.
But at least it was quality time! He got to spend time with all his grandkids, as well as family and friends. He kept writing. I know that if he had a choice in how he would have spent his last year on earth, he wouldn't have had it any other way. Well, aside from the CT scans and hospital visits.
My mom is on her way to South Carolina to spend Thanksgiving with my brother and his family at Clemson University, where my niece is a student. Then she'll be coming out here for Christmas. It'll be her first holiday season in more than 40 years without Dad, so it'll be hard. But at least she'll be with family.
Anyway, it's been quite a year. Today, I'm going to relax a bit. Take a few hours off. Well, as much as I can, with two little urchins running around, lol!

Happy thanksgiving, everyone!

(BTW, if you happen to be in Chicago this weekend [which I, unfortunately, am not], there's a big "Doctor Who" convention going on!)