To my adoring fans...

Goodness! Who knew I had so many fans who so anxiously await my profound and enlightening words!?

Sit back and let me tell you a little story...

Okay, that's all I've got. I have to write normally, I feel a headache coming on!

Our Thanksgiving was just dandy! We went north to visit Scott's parents. Although the drive is long (6 hours), it went pretty well both ways. Lili is the only one who is still a bit high maintenance. She sat right behind me and called my name about every 10 minutes on the way up. I am wondering why I'm growing my hair out...it (and my fingernails) are way shorter now than this time last week!

We went up on Tuesday after school so that we could enjoy an extra day with the folks. Wednesday was a day of fun...we took the kids to see Chicken Little--we all liked it pretty well! We also drove down to the Riverfront to see the lights, but apparently they were not on yet. Those trees were BARE!! But the John Deere Commons looked lovely. Did I take pictures? Oh no--left the camera back at the house! Good scrapbooking example I am!

Scott's brother and his family came in on Thursday and joined in the fun and food! David and Jackie have a teenage son, Darrin, a 10 year old, Arianna, and Jeffery--who is a year older than Savannah. The kids loved playing with their cousins--well except Darrin, I think he was just annoyed with the rest of them, but utterly thrilled that Grandma & Grandpa got digital cable! Imagine that!

For those of you who know of our former turkey cooking experiences, this will come as a pleasant surprise. Scott fried another turkey! And there were no flames!! I did get pictures of that--just to make sure it was all documented this time! We had a great Thanksgiving dinner and really enjoyed our visit! The leftovers were just as good on Friday!

Scott was the only one to venture out into the wild, wild world of shopping on Friday morning! He got up and headed to K-Mart before 6 am...and while there, he actually witnessed a customer physically assault one of the store clerks! He didn't stay in the area long enough to see what happened! I just witnessed 4 kids get up too early for the third day in a row...nothing out of the ordinary!

I do have a bit of non-Thanksgiving news to share! No--we're not pregnant. I don't know why that's always the first thought when we say we have news. Anyway, back to what I was saying... I have begun working 2 days a week as a personal assistant to my Creative Memories Upline, Tammy. She needs someone to help her keep up with all her paperwork and inventory and other business stuff and I need the $$$, so it seemed like a perfect deal. I only work on Tuesday and Friday and since Peyton and Lili are still at home, I have asked Amy to come in and hang out with them those days. She was happy to do it and happy to have part of my pay to buy groceries or diapers or whatever each week! And of course, Peyton and Lili are THRILLED to have Joshua (and Amy) here! Yesterday was our first day--and outside of Amy trying to make Lili sleep in Peyton's bed at naptime and wondering if she always cries that much--we all had a good day!

I think I better check on Lili--she just came in half-naked and said she went potty. I hope it was IN the potty! :oO

Happy last day of November. Tomorrow it can snow--according to Peyton. We don't really know why...but that's normal too! She prayed for snow every time she prayed for about 6-8 months ("...please bring us some more snow so I can go sledding with Daddy...") so I'm a little concerned about the kind of winter we may have this year!

Let it snow!

JK

P.S. I haven't downloaded pics from T-giving yet, so you'll just have to check back. And I suppose I'll have to blog again! Besides, I just realized that I forgot some stuff to share! :o)