Greetings from North Carolina!

Thanks for all your holiday and birthday well-wishing!  I ended up having a terrific time at Drew’s family’s house at their house in North Carolina, though unlike our Christmas here last year it was actually cold this time!  Seriously, most of my family was in Northern Illinois (Galena!) for Thanksgiving, and I don’t think it was all that much colder there!  Well, maybe a little.  It was lots of fun.  We ate lots of desserts (pumpkin pie and cheesecake and these amazing birthday cupcakes) and drank eggnog-spiked coffee and rum-spiked eggnog, and then tonight we watched a parade of boats lit up with Christmas lights!  I wore the coat Drew got me for my birthday–well, I’ll show better pictures of it later, along with my birthday dress.  Hope you all had a lovely holiday/weekend!