Honey I’m Home!!

And only just, but I’m feeling very blog deprived so I have to put in a small blurb here to update things.  Our trip to Scotland was AMAZING and very blog worthy.  More on that in the near future – three weeks worth of being away should translate into at least a month’s worth of blathering on and on about it. 

Funny that after spending so much time analyzing CI that it went completely out of my mind when I left before the final show.  I’m commenting on it here, since the last thing I wrote before leaving was on that subject.  I was back at my sisters before it crossed my mind to wonder who won.  And Ann said she couldn’t remember the name, but she didn’t think it was Brian.  Her son’s name is Brian, and she would have remembered that.  And that just illustrates one of the many symptoms of jet lag, aging and general brain deadness we’ve both been experiencing lately.  I ranted about Jaydee briefly (well, briefly for me) without checking things out – what a waste of a good rant, because Brian Melo DID win.  WOOOOHOOO!! 

And then the absolute best thing ever – two of my long lost cousins discovered my blog by accident and posted comments!   I am so appreciative and gratified and generally just plain delighted that they found some of the family history interesting and worthwhile.  Especially since I’ve just spent several days visiting my parents and looking through more old photo albums and scrap books and bringing home more memorabilia to comment on.  We have an incredibly interesting extended family, and there are so many shared memories!  Their mother/grandmother (my dad’s sister Marguerite) was one of my many beautiful aunts, and a personal favourite of mine.  It’s a long involved story how I came to possess her giant wooden spoon and fork that always hung on the wall in her kitchen, and for years have hung in mine, a treasured reminder of her.

So.  Our holiday is over and we did not solve the Mc/Mac mystery.  I guess we’ll just have to go back.  But for now I’m happy to be home.