Apple sauce, Sun and TA's OH MY!!

Just sat down to eat some lunch and thought I would write a note to detail this busy day! A good friend of mine Charlotte...a mom waiting to bring her daughter home, was waiting to find out what her CA(Consulate Appointment) would be. She got her Travel approval last week and we hoped she might be in Guangzhou the same time we are...turns out that she will arrive about the day after we head home. We are disappointed, but are glad to know that her daughter Rachel will be coming home very soon...not quite as quickly as we had hoped, but soon none the less.
Our actual TA (travel approval) that all important piece of paper arrived in the mail today! Actually by DHL...I have it safely tucked into a folder, to make sure it goes with us to China. I had to smile. It had a sticky note attached..."make sure this goes with you to China" You MUST HAVE IT!!!! I guess I can forget many things, but better not forget my TA!! It is always good to have that arrive. We had gotten an email last week that it was sent, but I hadn't really checked it out that closely. Yesteray on the way to Church I asked Scott...did we get a DHL package this weekend. He said "NO" I had worked Thursday and Friday night...so my awareness this weekend was rather limited. Thankfully when I got home yesterday the email said."expected delivery 10-22. And it arrived when it was intended to!
Talking about 10-22. This is my big brothers birthday. He would be 52 years old today! Hard to believe. Always in our memories. The years sure do fly by.
And what is that wonderful brightness I see outside today....surely a welcomed site around here. We have had rain 20 out of 22 days so far in October! It has been rather dismal. This week looks like we might be able to get the garden officially to sleep before we head to China. Scott dug potatoes yesteray and I think we havd sweet potatoes yet. I think we have to wait on a frost before we did those! Guess I will have to check that out.
I finally got the apple sauce made. Our neighbors had extra apples and they have been in the basement waiting on me to make applesauce for too long...but now it is done. I'm sure all of us will enjoy that this winter.
Guess this brings us one day closer to heading for JM. Many things to do, but Oh so ready to go.
Guess I better figure out what we will have for dinner tonight. SF will be home late from school today, so need to get things going.
All for now.