It is our year to host and we all heading down to Marathon Key for a bit of warm weather, we hope.  First there is finding a suitable house to rent, arranging for flying travelers, menu planning, grandkid gift shopping, ornament making, and lots of grocery shopping.  Kent and I are squeezing in a couple nights on a houseboat in Everglades National Park.  It is a bucket list thing for me to experience the sights, sounds and smells of that lush wild environment in the night – not from a chickee platform shared with snakes and gators.  This little side trip adds another pile of stuff we will have to get into the truck somehow!  We head out December 18.