So this is piecing...

[trustinginHim]

Thanks plk, I believe that is a great compromise! Amazingly though, since I took the liberty of forwarding all the mail for the business that came to our home address, wayward business mail has not appeared here for almost three weeks...imagine that!!! And, as a great side benefit, BMOW has not sent my H an email of any kind for almost a month now. So for the time being, I have nothing to forward to her and she apparently has nothing to say to my H. I LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. I used the holiday to perform some more 180's for my H and he loved them!

Wednesday night, H's middle brother and W showed up for the start of the holiday. I had ready and waiting for them upon arrival a hot meal meeting their dietary guidelines that I had prepared myself with a fully set table complete with the good china, crystal and silverware. My H opened a nice bottle of wine and we had a great evening. For comparison's sake, the old me was a poor cook, poor entertainer and extremely poor hostess. Not anymore! When H and I went to bed later after tucking our guests in, he just gushed with compliments for me. He said I was becoming everything he had ever wanted in a W and he loved everything I had done. Then he held and caressed me until I fell asleep.

We all got up bright and early Thanksgiving morning and drove about 4 hours away to meet the rest of H's family for the holiday. H's aunt had reserved a very, very, very nice room in a lovely hotel as a combined birthday present for me and H. Our b-days are next month. She also bought the entire family a delicious Thanksgiving meal together in an expensive restaurant. Yeah, she's got the bucks. When we prayed about our thankfulness over the meal before we ate, my H pleasantly surprised me by grabbing and squeezing my hand. That was a big 180 for him!

We spent Thanksgiving afternoon together as a family and leisurely shopped. Then we all caught a movie together and wandered into another restaurant for dinner. It turned out to be a most excellent day. My H and I were exhausted and in the room asleep by 9:30 pm, which unfortunately caused us to miss out on some private hottub time that had also been reserved for us that evening under the full moon on the hotel roof by SIL. We told her that we were too tired to go, so she and her H went in our place. All was not lost!

Friday morning, the family appeared bright and early and we all went to breakfast, then shopped for a few more hours together before heading our separate ways for home. My H told me that he wanted to take me on a different, but more scenic route for our return trip home. He told me that he had taken this same route home last year for the first time, very lonely and missing me terribly and wondering if/when he would ever get to share the beautiful drive with me. Little did he expect that it would only be a year later!

LG--praising her most wonderful and precious Lord for all things, most especially ADs