Those are some anxiety dreams. Mine usually involve my teeth falling out.

My niece is bringing her family over from Wisconsin on Wednesday, so my sister will have her kids, their spouses and their kids, her husband and me all under her roof for extended periods of time. She’s so happy, and I’m looking forward to it, too. The Rancid Cheeto has driven even the most conservative members of my immediate family towards my way of thinking, so we can even talk politics and religion without tears now. My sister’s husbands’s cousin has a huge Thanksgiving gathering every year (20+ people, 2 turkeys and a ham), so I’ll be bringing squash puffs as an appetizer. And over the next week we’re expecting 8 inches of snow, so I'm hoping we can get the kids upside for snowball fights.