Good grief! Where has the time flown?!? I have been very busy these past few days. I am guessing that most of you have been busy, too…. Rushing around getting things accomplished before December arrives.<\/p>\n
My husband and I are so lucky that both of our grown children can be with us during the holidays. We had a terrific Thanksgiving visit…. And, I was actually able to see my college roommate during this past week! She was visiting her niece in Austin, so I drove up and we had lunch. You know the sign of a great friend… someone you haven’t seen in over twenty years, yet you are able to resume your conversations as if you had seen each other a day ago. (Of course, now that we have e-mail and cell phone capabilities, we actually are connected, even though physically we are distant… me in San Antonio and she in Iowa.) It was wonderful to see her again… Next time she is in Texas, it will be for a vacation… not because of a family emergency. She has an open invitation to stay with us…<\/p>\n
I have been busy getting my Christmas preparations started<\/strong>. I have been listening to seasonal music, trying to get myself motivated. And, I am just about finished with M. C. Beaton’s Kissing Christmas Goodbye<\/strong>. I have really been enjoying this book… it reminds me of Beaton’s earlier Agatha Raisin books.<\/p>\n Well, I just wanted to write a quick blog… It has been a while since I last blogged… and I don’t know where the time went!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good grief! Where has the time flown?!? I have been very busy these past few days. I am guessing that most of you have been busy, too…. Rushing around getting things accomplished before December arrives. My husband and I are so lucky that both of our grown children can be with us during the holidays. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-2K","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}