Not Me, Monday...

Hello everyone! I have survived the week from heck! I'm actually more happy than usual to see this Monday...perhaps this week will be more normal than the last, but it's not looking very good...

Let me begin by saying congratulations to my weekend giveaway winner, Hayley. Hayley won a Christmas puzzle, which will be in the mail as soon as I get her address. Thanks to all who participated! Another giveaway is in the works for Friday, stay tuned...Now for my weekly Not Me, Therapy!

I did not arrive home from doing my Thanksgiving grocery shopping, to see my mother-in-law's car driving up behind mine. The lady who stays with her during the day did not drive up and tell me that she thought my mother-in-law had suffered a pin stroke! They had been out shopping together when my mother-in-law started to act "funny".

I did not ask my daughter to put away my cold stuff, grab a peanutbutter sandwich, and proceed to drive my mother-in-law to the hospital emergency room. She did indeed have a pin stroke and was admitted to the hospital for observation. (she's out now)

I did not buy a 20 pound turkey to cook for Thanksgiving. It was so large that I could hardly pick it up! It filled up a very large space in my refrigerator, as well as my oven!

I was not in the middle of cooking Thanksgiving dinner when the hospital called and said that they were releasing my mother-in-law and that someone needed to come and pick her up...I did not send my husband...

I did not get a call on the evening of Black Friday that my uncle had passed away...just after I had gotten my Christmas tree out of the box and in the stand.

My Christmas tree is not still sitting in the corner undecorated...my house does not look like I am moving due to boxes of Christmas stuff everywhere...

In the middle of dealing with my mother-in-law after her stroke, my uncle's passing away, and my house in shambles due to Christmas decoration boxes, we did not have to travel out of town to see "The Nutcracker" because I'd bought the tickets a month ago for my Christmas present...

I did not thoroughly enjoy viewing The Nutcracker for the first time...It was not a beautiful show...All of the men in the family did not give my husband a "hard time" for going to see The Nutcracker! My husband did not say that the men in the show needed a few more clothes on, while the women needed a few less...Those were not the tightest tights on men that I have ever seen...they appeared to have been sprayed on.

My front yard does not look absolutely beautiful because I took time to put up the outside lights and decorations before we went to see The Nutcracker. I can not believe that I decorated the yard before the house this year...

That's going to do it for my Not Me Monday post. Be sure to have a great day--as for me, I'll be putting up Christmas decorations until time to go for my uncle's viewing tomorrow evening...