This month my girls have been doing a “good deed a day” advent calendar (thanks Aunt Sherry), performing some daily act of kindness as we count down towards Christmas. Monday’s challenge was “bake cookies for your neighbor.”
So they gift-wrapped and delivered their fresh-baked cookies to a dozen or so of our campground neighbors:
Wednesday was a double treat: I met up with my childhood friend Kristi (along with her boyfriend Chris) who I had not seen for over 20 years…
…and we all had lunch at the wonderful Mrs. Wilkes in downtown Savannah. Mrs. Wilkes used to be a boarding house in the early 60’s, but it became known for its legendary food. You don’t order anything; you just sit at a table (usually with strangers), and eat like it’s Thanksgiving. It’s Southern cooking at its fahhhnest.
After lunch, I sat in the car and worked while Amy and the girls walked around downtown Savannah:
My girls making some crazy videos on Amy’s computer one night this week:
We made it to our campground in Wildwood, Florida on Wednesday afternoon, just in time to hear the Weaver Believer Survival Revival rocking out down at the clubhouse:
Lunchtime outside on a beautiful, sunny Florida day:
Our RV park was right next to a cattle pasture. Natalie was excited to see a few baby cows:
Before hitting the road on Friday, we stopped by the local truck wash. It was very loud with all of the semi’s idling and the pressure washers spraying, so it at first felt like an angry place with everyone yelling at each other over the noise. But I soon realized it was just a bunch of cheerful swearing truckers.
We were so happy to finally reach St. Petersburg FL to be with my Uncle Walter and Aunt Sue. Walter met us at the RV park before we all headed over to his house for the evening.
Amy stocking up on fresh produce at the St. Petersburg farmer’s market on Saturday:
My girls helping Aunt Sue wrap gifts for her grandkids:
We of course don’t have a Christmas tree in the RV, so my girls had fun putting some finishing touches on Aunt Sue’s tree:
An evening out at Yorgurtology:
This morning we joined Walter and Sue for church — one of the rare times we’ve actually had to somewhat dress up!
My mom flew down from Indy today. She’ll be staying at Walter and Sue’s while we’re here in town but then she’ll join us on the road for a few days after Christmas.
I started this post talking about cookies, and I’ll end it talking about cookies. Three years ago my life was changed when I had one or 12 of Aunt Sue’s cutout cookies, so I was pretty excited to partake of them once again. Here are my girls helping with the initial cutouts:
…Nat whipping up some icing:
…the full Icing Team:
…and the final product. So, so delicious.
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, so we’ll be hanging out with Walter, Sue and my mom, and perhaps knocking out some last minute shopping (and definitely knocking down some cutout cookies.)