Crab Cakes

Still eating lots of Linda's cookies and still have a lot left.  Shirley shops at Whole Foods on Wednesdays so we also have cinnamon rolls today.  She and Rose are going to make me fat.  I had been wanting crab cakes, so Chris called around and found a place called The Highlander that had some delicious ones.  We went there last night.  Shelly was going to join us, but her Uncle Butch got sick and she was tending him.  The restaurant was in the location near where Midwest Recovery was.  I once worked for Midwest Recovery so it was a memorable location though it didn't seem so.  The crab cakes and the potato soup were both good.  I would go back there.

Pete and Janet are preparing for Christmas.  Janet baked her traditional fruitcakes and she, like Linda, makes lots of different kinds of cookies.  When I was 15 I lived with Pete and Janet, and she taught me how to make all these different kinds. I kept doing it myself for years.  Pete and Janet and Family are having a quieter Christmas than their Thanksgiving.  Their dinner will be on Christmas Day with Nancy's family.  Kelly and the boys aren't coming because they were there for Thanksgiving, and the boys will spend part of the time with their mom.  Merri has to work the next day and it's a long drive for her and Albert.

Scott and Beth and the boys will be here Saturday and we will have a birthday celebration for Jalen on Saturday evening.  We're trying a place in Clayton because we couldn't get a reservation on Saturday night to the place we went last year.  We waited too long to call.   This new (to us) place is J Buck's.    It's Jalen's 16th birthday, and we want to make it extra special.  Sunday morning we will have Christmas brunch and then Scott and family will have that long drive back to Louisville.