Once the Thanksgiving dishes were put up, you probably had the 3-D maps out on the dining room table. You had your flat screen TV strategy diagrammed with the video game secondary front right down to the third wave assault for those all-important stocking stuffers.

Before you put your turkey sated belly to rest, you no doubt watched the weather forecast and laid out the proper attire: Layers with the old stuff on top that could be cast away if need be. No regrets. Make room for the new stuff.

My wish for you, this beginning of the season of seasons, is that you fare well and stay healthy.

As I arise at 10 a.m. and toast you with a cup of coffee, still in my jammies, I think of my lists yet unfilled; my projects yet to crochet and mail; my limbs intact. I still have more than three weeks, or close to it, and I prefer Cyber Monday for holiday crazed shopping.

Happy birthday Friday to Chaunci Allegra Dawson, Billy Wayne Ingram and Norman Monroe, all of Denison; Gloria Simmons, Martha Crawford Fitzsimmons, Susan Vincent, and Tara Wall and her son, Janson Wall, all of Sherman; Harvey Morris of Howe; Dawn Aloha Arrington of Gunter; Sandra Winningham of Bonham; Noah Cheek of McKinney; Jeff Barnes of Trenton; Clara Chandler of Van Alstyne.

Happy birthday Friday to Gene and Imogene Smith of Denison, 62 years; Arylis and Gwen McKinney of Sherman, 38 years.

Happy birthday Saturday to Richard Thurmond of Pottsboro; Helen Wilson, Ginger Boothe, George Dhane, Carolyne Slaughter Sample, Gerald Fletcher and Wanda Flaherty Pearson, all of Sherman; Evelyn Janice Owens, Mary Stevenson, David Miller and Michele Raglin, all of Denison; Jami McGehee of Savoy; Frances Bell Akin of Sanger; Mary Thompson Summerhill of Bozeman, Montana; Kenneth Nelson of Tom Bean; Lucille Josey of Dallas; Margaret Ann Wiley of Missouri, Texas.