Coli here, 34, Seattle area with miss Ruby who's just turned one and yet we had some dude at Costco comment "She's so young to be sitting up in the cart". LOL She's NOT that small, her head is ENORMOUS! but since she's basically bald and a little short, they think she's like a newborn. BUT ANYWAY....
Not preggo altho if I'd had sex within a reasonable amount of time to think I was (won't go into it, but it's been a LONG time), I'd be testing because I've had all kinds of symptoms I went thru when I was first pregnant and others have asked me too...LOL but it'll be a couple more years...we barely fit in our place now, so we'll have to either purge more or move...and since we can't do the cleaning we want to do now (we=I), then the second isn't going to be coming anytime soon!
Thanksgiving...hmmm...well, we'll be going to the in-laws. I'm going to try and see if I can get DH to agree to come home on Saturday since his football game on Sunday is away, but at 10am....and he'd be in church if we were still there (and he's NOT going to miss the Seahawks playing the Rams in STL, hates em!)...but I do hope to go shopping on Friday morning. won't be our "dawn to dusk" excursion like we've done in the past, but I wouldn't mind getting quite a bit done since it's non-stop on the weekends after that. My company does a kids' christmas party with food, crafts, and santa giving each child a gift, that's on the 5th, hakws are home on the 6th, then the adult part is on the 12th....we have tickets to ride the Santa Train on the 13th...nothing on the 19th, but the hawks are home on the 20th, then Christmas weekend (HOPING we'll be at home, celebrating as a nuclear family)....then it's new years, hawks are home that weekend too....Yup, that's how my falls and winters go, scheduling life around football. At least I got him to agree to the Santa train on the 13th....
Traditions? hmmm, nothing of our own yet. I love visiting family, I really do, but I often feel so stressed at the big holidays that it's not enjoyable for me. not that I'm the only one that matters, but why should I feel like I'm giving everything and getting nothing in return? ANYWAY....my MIL typically fixes a ton of food, of which I eat the turkey, potatoes and rolls....I like nothing else she fixes...oh, her fresh creamed corn (as in, how it's taken off the cob, not added cream)....but she ends up fixing so much food, there's no way we could even take a bit of each if we wanted to....one person likes yams, another likes pea salad....you get the idea. she's a people pleaser, but complains about it from the get go until we're all so sick of it (well, I am) and just want to tape her mouth shut. If you don't enjoy the whole event, scale it back so you can. Better yet, do what we started doing way back when, when we'd go to visit my grandmother in a nursing home, GO OUT FOR DINNER! then you eat, enjoy the time, and have no cleanup! The best thanksgiving we've had in a while (aside from last year, which was a ton of fun with the new babe and my sister and BIL in town) was our Thanksgiving in Boston a few years back. I seriously haven't had a more enjoyable vacation, despite the fact that I drove the mini-van packed with 7 adults the entire time and had no clue where I was going half the time AND had my mother backseat driving from the FAR back, where my DH was sitting in front of her and she literally couldn't see anything...but yet, she was calling things out that were accurate. hahahahah....
Ok, it's almost lunchtime. I'm still bummed we're not doing the photos today, but what can you do? can't stop the rain!
(Thanks Lorry (lorryfach) for my siggy :D)
