Today is Sunday and I love my Sundays because the kids are here! I wish Ally and her guys could join us! I miss them so much that it hurts! We're having an easy meal, spaghetti, compliments of Ragu! I used to love to cook and bake, but no longer do, so we try to have as easy as possible meals most of the time. Speaking of cooking, I can't believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner. We already have our turkey in the freezer...a 26 pounder! Yikes..we're going to have turkey coming out of our ears!  Dangit..I never get these pics to go where I want them to go..anyway, these pics are from our Comiso days. Where we met the Creggs!

I was suprised to get a facebook post from a sweet friend, Kim Cregg/Richards. She told me she enjoyed reading my "gaudy granny" blog! I was shocked that anyone other then Christie is even reading it! We met Kim and her family when we were stationed at Comiso Air Station in Sicily. Kims' family is the kind of family that we all should strive to be like. They were (and still are) a very close knit family and they're all so darned nice! Sincere, honest, loving, and just good people! Shortly after we moved here (to corn country USA, aka Mascoutah, Illinois) we got word that Kim lost her dad. My heart broke for Sue, (Kims mom) and Kim and her siblings. I cannot imagine losing my husband. And when Kims dad passed away, I had no idea how hard it is to lose your dad either. Since then I have lost my dad and there's not a day that goes by that I don't think about him and miss him. Our daughter Ally and Kim were best buds' in Comiso and I worked with Sue at the school on base. The Creggs were so good to Ally. They were good to everyone they knew! I feel blessed that we met them! When you're overseas, what they say really is true, "your friends become your family"! I've lots of good memories from Comiso! It's hard to believe that our kids are grown up, some with babies of their own. Kim recently married and she looked like a little Barbie doll in her pictures! Everyone should be so lucky as to have friends like the Creggs!
I've got to get ready for my kids to arrive. I'll post more later! Hope you all have a fun Sunday!