Live Laugh Love...with The Souza's: Tools & Turkey

November seems to be the Souza’s Month of Home Improvement!!! Last November we woke up one morning to find mushrooms growing through the carpet in our bathroom. Which led to us ripping the bathroom floor out and having to put tile in (before our friends from Ireland arrived)

Talk about disaster!

THIS November, we decided we needed to rip all our carpet out downstairs to put in laminate floors. Our lovely little (bastard) Yorkie dogs, Ando and Clare, have been giving us a run for our money since having Owen. I think our “first born” Ando is having some jealousy issues which have led to him marking our house. We started noticing it a few months ago, tried using a diffusor to minimize his stress (which did NOT work, Sorry Holly) and when I was on chemo I felt like the house always smelt like pee. I was so embarrassed to have people over and we’d be “those people” with the stinky house. So we decided to put ourselves further into debt and get laminate floors!

Yosh has slaved over the floors the whole month and has done an AWESOME. He did most of it by himself but had some help from his friends Joel Manley, Kris Gerke and Michael Patterson. Good Job Babe! He’s actually finishing up the “quarter round” and “t- molding” as I type (which he better not wake up my child!!)

So all the flooring work aside, Turkey day arrived…our family does the Thanksgiving dinner at usual dinner time. All morning while Yosh was finishing up laying the floors, Owen and I got some playing time in and I thought about Thanksgiving last year.

In 2009, my friends from Ireland were here, Catherine and John…we had our turkey dinner the Tuesday before Thanksgiving since I had treatment #7 the day before. Obviously in Ireland they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving so the two Irish Micks were thrilled to be getting an extra turkey dinner that year. On actual Thanksgiving day we watched football all day and went to the beach for sunset…it was beautiful.

…and on to 2010…

We didn’t have any international visitors this year, but the thought of turkey, mashed potatoes, potato salad, strawberry spinach salad…ohhh I couldn’t wait this year. Cancer robbed me of enjoying all turkey last year, so I was pumped about it this year!!! We spent the day with our usual family at my parents house…Mom and Dad, Marilyn and Al, Sister Teresa, Catherine and us. It was a beautiful, yet windy day, and my poor mom was feeling under the weather so I couldn’t help but feel so bad for her !!	Sick or not she still cooked an awesome turkey