"Playing for Pizza"

Okay, I'm not a lover of sports like golf or football. Stupid games and make no sense to me. I'm a big fan of John Grisham and he wrote his latest novel based on an out of luck football player who ends up playing on a league in Italy where football American style is catching on. The story is great but if you aren't fond of the sport than you kind of need to grit your teeth and barrel through the actual descriptions of the games that are played on their way for the big prize. The story just re-inforces what I feel about the stupidity of the sport but the story was fun. A different kind of book than the usual Grisham novel.

Met with my cousins from Mom's side of the family today. Still have an Uncle surviving (well, really two, but we don't have anything to do with the one in Denver)so he joined us with his wife. The widow of another uncle was there, too. There are 10 first cousins that range in age from 53 to 63 and 7 of them were there today. One is in Texas, one in Florida, and one in Texas and they didn't make it. The one from Germany and the one from Kentucky came and joined the ones that are within a three county area of central PA. It was a combination of 4 generations. Several of our children and their children came and it made for a wonderful day. Unfortunately a restaurant isn't the greatest place to have a reunion but that's what we had to deal with. We'll see if it's best to continue this route or go back to meeting at each other's homes on a rotational basis. It was funny that when we did that we didn't have a big turnout but when we went to a restaurant more people came but the younger ones (that didn't come before) thought it would be good to have it at someone's home so it would be easier to visit. Can't please everyone! Just glad that we had such a good turn out.

Still haven't gotten the tree! Wishing I didn't have to but with everyone coming here for the big day, I need to do it. Hubby insists on having a live (ball) tree instead of a cut tree but it's gotten so difficult to get it in and out of the house because of the weight. It's such a struggle. I have a little 18 inch live tree already in a cute little pot but my oldest granddaughter says that's not big enough. Where is she when I'm trying to get the bigger tree in here and decorating it.

Good news is that I get to start a new book tonight. Still haven't decided which one.