Thanksgiving and Snow Therapy

Many of you readers out there will know that Kathie's mother has relocated here to Iowa. During the months of September and October, she had some health setbacks from which she is recovering nicely. However, everyone agreed that all of us being nearer each other would be a good idea. Florida is nice, but the distance was making regular togetherness difficult.

Anyway, November and December have been months of transition. It had been quite a long time since Mother and her two girls and their families could be together around a Thanksgiving table. This year was different. Gail and Greg, Vicki and David, and Kris and her friend Tom were all able to be here with us. Also, Jessica flew in from Nashville. Only Travis was unable to be there. Although I failed to take a picture of all ten of us around the table for the dinner, I did get a number of other shots. Here are Jessica and Kris:


Kris and her grandmother spent a little time catching up with each other.


Tom, Kris, and Vicki posed for me.


Here are Gail and her mother.


We guys, meaning Greg, David, Tom, and I, were done in by the turkey and several football games and found it easy to nap. As a result, I had too few opportunities for pictures of everyone. However, I did find David catching some Z's on our couch (he claimed he had been up late the night before finishing a computer programming assignment at the university--I wouldn't know anything about that).


Of course, there was lots of game playing to be done too.



Since Thanksgiving, we have also treated Mother to weather with which she has been unacquainted in the 23 years since leaving the Chicago area for the warmer climes of Florida. We have had an ice storm and two or three good snowfalls. Among other things, she has enjoyed watching all the action at our bird feeders, though we usually let her do this from the confines of a cozy chair in our warm living room.


As part of her recovery, Mom has been doing lots of therapies--physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, for example. We thought she needed some additional work, so we have put her on a snow therapy program, as you will see below.