I loved the questions.

1. Regrets? Oh yeah, but not worth contemplating. Besides, I've learned so much from the mistakes.

2. Thanksgiving? Afternoon with the family on T-Day; then me and the kids will do our own turkey dinner at home and invite friends for an easygoing celebration.

3. Black Friday? Not on your life; not on a dare; not for anything in the world. Well, almost anything...

4. Looking forward to holidays? Yes. The kids are old enough that we can work together as buddies now and have so much fun. Cookie baking and decorating are going to be great this year!!

Dad hauled himself out to the ER again this week -- this time via ambulance with belated calls the following day -- and they then carted him, via ambulance, to L.A. where they installed a pace maker. He was discharged the next day and spent the next 6 hours shopping; going out to dinner; spending time with my sister; and, then turned up on my doorstep seeking the bag that I packed for him and that he missed when the L.A.-bound ambulance left earlier than planned. As I told a friend of mine today, the man does not have a "pause" button and is going to live to be 120. Sometimes I wish that he could relax a bit...but I'm glad that things went well for this.

Getting ready to do our pictures with MKwiat again this year. Caeleigh is desperately trying to lose her second upper front tooth before we can get in. If she MUST do this, I don't see why Caidan can't drop both of his before pix -- sure would make it easy to come up with the print on our card, wouldn't it??? (Think, "all I want for Christmas" and hum along, please.)

'Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. Good luck to all of you Black Friday shoppers. We'll hope that we don't get to see footage of y'all smished up against some glass doorway during the "running of the bulls."

Cat w/3 Kittens
Caidan, Carina and Caeleigh
Born at 31 weeks, 1/8/04.