Pro-Serv Process Serving, Inc.

Things have been hopping around here, life is good.  We have been working with many new clients and some long time clients to teach them the complexities of proper process service and following the laws regarding tenant and employment screenings.

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Every year I am the person who makes sure people get fed and of course...participate in Black Friday.  This year was no different.  I spend a few hours shopping to make sure there are snacks to enjoy before dinner.  Then it's time to pack up and head to my in-laws house in Salishan.  John & Debbie have been kind enough to allow us to use this home as our Thanksgiving sanctuary since the first year it was built.  We have been able to share this tranquil environment with family members, my best friend Scott and his family as well as friends of the kids.  Everyone that walks through these doors and spends any time here truly is captivated by the peace and tranquility.  Even Disneyland reaches a point of being ready to leave, but not the Baxter beach house.

The mystique of the house is the peaceful nature that encompasses it.  While kids will be kids and as they are growing older and moving into adulthood they still become kids while they are here.  Some years I've wondered if they truly are thankful for what they have as I have listened to them complain about being here instead of with their friends or because they have to help clean up.  Yes I said with their friends, on Thanksgiving.  One year we did not come down.and they still were not allowed to go to their friends.  Oh...and they still had to help clean up.  Be careful what you ask for kids.  We have, over the years, taught the kids that they should be thankful for everything they receive in life as you never know when you will no longer have it.

Over the last few years the kids have commented on a regular basis how their friends wish they could be down here.   They say these friends tell them they are so lucky to be able to spend time at the beach house and not in a motel.  This year has been similar to past years but I have noticed the appreciation is much higher.  Eric missed his first Thanksgiving dinner with us in 16 years.  Eric is the father of Sarah & Andy, ex-husband to Connie.  You did not misread this, he missed his first Thanksgiving dinner with us in 16 years.  He has always been welcome in our home and this year he had to work.

However, we did have a special guest spend the day with us.  John (owner of the home, father to Connie, grandfather to Sarah, Andy & Cassie, father-in-law to Bruce) spent the day with us.  This was the first Thanksgiving he has spent with our family and it was great.  He relaxed and ate and spent time with the family.  He laughed and watched tv and played games and showed pictures.  He was able to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner...except he had to leave because he had to work on Friday.  We laughed too because even though John was in his own home where he has lots of rain gear, he went for a walk without putting it on and got soaked.  Pesonally I think it was done on purpose so he could come back and slip into sweats & slippers and relax, which is exactly what he did.  Unfortunately, Debbie (wife to John, stepmother to Connie, Grandma Debbie to the kids and mother-in-law to Bruce) was unable to join us as she is taking care of her mother (GG,,,great grandma as Cassie and Emily fondly refer to her).  It would be nice to have John & Debbie join us in the future especially to make sure that they just relax!  Of course Debbie will want to help in the kitchen but on this day of thanks, she would not be able to.  You see, this is my way of showing a special thank you and seeing the reward of being thanked by the look in their faces.

Later that night I took the kids to the outlet stores since they opened at midnight.  We shopped for a couple of hours and came back.

I am sitting here watching the tide flow, the wind blow and some family members resting...ok...napping.   Anna (our beloved furball aka dog) is on the patio awaiting another of her many walks.  The serenity of our sanctuary is never lost on me, the thankfulness never enough.  This ability to partake in such wonder is still amazing and surreal.

Earlier in the week we quietly and with anonymity bought and delivered a few turkeys to Open House Ministries, a homeless shelter near our office.  They were missing over 100 turkeys due to theft.  This is the same shelter that only a week earlier I was serving a resident with a temporary restraining order, an apparent consequence of a series of bad choices.  I say apparent because nobody really knows except for the parties involved.  All I know is I had a job to do and when I left the building a lot of people were laughing with me including the young lady I had just served.  While our work is not always a pleasant thing in the daily life of some people, we work hard at making it less stressful.  I received my thanks by helping to create smiles on these faces before I left the building.  This was not the first time I had been in the building for work purposes but those visits are far overshadowed by the visits donating time, food and other items and always accompanied with those two most precious words...Thank You.  I look at these people and tell them thank you for letting us share in their life.

This week has been busy but the true spirit of Thanksgiving is not lost, at least not within our family.  Everyday is Thanksgiving to us and although there are too many people to name in our thanks, I want to thank our families, friends and our clients for being part of the enrichment of our lives.  Time truly stands still in this house of which we are eternally thankful for.  The biggest thank you goes to our troops around the world.  While one may not agree with the war or battles going on throughout the world, be thankful that our military personnel is protecting your ability to not agree.

Even in off years I love my Dodgers.  This year they have made it to the NLCS.  I was hoping the Yanks would have been in the playoffs.  I think it was totally inappropriate the way they disrespected Joe Torre and what a thrill it would have been to watch dem bums sweep the overrated and overpaid.