Our first week and a half back, and all the foods we have missed!

Wow, I can’t believe it has already been a week. Our first night, we were blessed with “pepperoni” pizza at Mike’s sisters house. Sure we can get pizza and even make homemade pizza’s but we can’t get pepperoni so that was one of those must have’s on the list. Of course the next thing was “Las Palmas” for lunch on Saturday. That was sooooo good! We took Mike’s mom with us but she didn’t understand how much we had missed this place. We met with our team on Saturday night and that was combination of many things we couldn’t get in SA, including a honey baked ham, everything was so yummy! Sunday we left after church to go to visit the kids, grandkids, and my parents. Mike and I made our usual stop in Murfreesboro at Krystal’s. We still have a few favorites in Nashville to visit when we get back but for the most part we have satisfied all those cravings. Being at my parents place for a week we have also fulfilled some of those ice cream cravings; Blue Bell, dutch chocolate and moose tracks. We still need to visit our favorites; marble slab and maggie moo’s but we have some time to do that before we leave in January.
Our visits this week have been great too! We stopped on the way to my parents to visit with all the kids and grandkids. We can’t believe how big they have gotten and some we had to take a double look to be sure they were who we thought they were. Everyone looked great and are doing well. We came on to my parents and have had a great time with them. My nephew was also with us this week and he introduced us to a new addition to the family, her name is Kaylee. Mike and I are now a great Aunt and Uncle. Mike left and went back on Wednesday to spend a couple of days with his kids while I stayed and visited with my family. My brother flew in on Friday and we had one night where we were all together. We drove back to Nashville on Saturday and have stayed put for a couple of days to handle all of our personal stuff this week. We will leave tomorrow to go have Christmas with the kids and grandkids and then return on Saturday. Pray with us that our time here with friends and family will be peaceful and enjoyable as this past week and a half has been.