Terri I saw the smiles in your pictures on facebook. They are very happy pictures and I see genuine in your DH. I am so glad you did have the day you wanted for everyone. Its so darn sad that sometimes we only have the fleeting glimps of the man we married. I am cooking a turkey today. Got a small 13 lb one for .48 cents a lb. I had to buy it. I also got a ham. So I will cook the turkey today and we will eat off of it, then I will cook the ham. Our family always had both with all of the sides that go with them. Too much for me to do for 2 people so it will be a Thanksgiving week. My dh has been doing ok. Most of the neighbors have there Christmas stuff up outside. I don't know when and if he will. This year though I am not letting him wait til May to take them down. I don't put up the tree til mid December and its down on New Years day. I hope your trip is everything you wish it to be. And I hope everyones week will be quiet, bountiful, full of family, love  and PTSD free.

Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us.
-- Alan Hale