Wednesday
It’s the day before Thanksgiving. When I think back to last year, and the craziness that was going on, I can honestly say that this year is a bit better! LOL Last year I was dealing with jet lag and my family wasn’t speaking to me.
This year, no jet lag! LOL My siblings are still being stupid, but at least I have my Mom this year. We are having a nice little Thanksgiving day celebration here with my little family, and Mom. All the same fixings as any other Thanksgiving. This is the second year that we’ve just stayed at home, and to be honest, I’m really liking it. I don’t have to worry about everyone behaving at someone else’s house. We can stay in our jammies as long as we want, cook, watch the parades, eat… it’s nice. Mom is spending the night so that we can get up early and get the turkey in the roaster. YUMMY!!
Emotionally I’m in a different place this year too. We’ve had Timothy home for a whole year now, and I’m not trying to fall back into some sort of routine. And, best of all… while I do still miss them, I’m not feeling as raw about the other members of my family and the way they’ve been treating us, and Mom. If my Dad was still alive... well… I won’t finish that sentence…
The list of things I am thankful for is pretty simple. I’m thankful for my family, my Mom, John and my four awesome, talented, smart, and beautiful kids(and of course John’s family too even though they are hundreds of miles away!). I’m thankful for the blessings that God has given me this year, a roof over our head, reliable vehicles, and jobs. I’m thankful for my Friends. If not for my friends, I’m not too sure I would have made it through this past year. The support, encouragement, and love of my friends has absolutely carried me through some really icky places in the past year. I’m thankful for my daycare kids and families and that God has blessed me with a full house again.
I hope that each of you have a WONDERFULLY BLESSED THANKSGIVING!!! I am thankful for you!!!
Thursday
Our Thanksgiving celebration was very nice. We all enjoyed the day with the Macy’s Parade, lots of food, shopping at a couple of stores that had special sales, and of course pie! Hehe The turkey was wonderful (well, all of the food was!)!!
I decided to send my “traditional” text to my siblings, just a “Happy Thanksgiving”. Nada. Nothing. Crickets… So, I’m on “ignore” now. I changed the setting on my Facebook, and won’t bother to send anymore messages wishing happiness on holidays or Birthdays. I’m done. I think the thing that really cinched it was that neither of them even called or sent my Mom a text to wish her a Happy Thanksgiving. I mean, wow…
I hope you all had a wonderful day!!
Friday
Actually, this should be just a continuation of Thursday!! We went out at 9pm and stayed out ALL night!! We had so much FUN!! I didn’t have any “big ticket” items on my list so that made for a much more pleasant shopping experience. LOL I got the usual pajamas, LOTS of great deals on DVDs, and a few other things from the kids’ wishlists, and a few odds and ends. Mom and Chrissy were with me. We started at Walmart, then on to Kohls. After that, Target, ShopKo, and Joann’s. We had breakfast at Perkins, and then a quick stop at Menards and Hobby Lobby and we were DONE!! Well, ok, not done, but out of money!! LOL I still have bunches of things to buy, and really should take inventory of the wrapping paper tote to see if I need to get any more of that.
I was home by 9 am and in bed around 9:30!! John and the kids let me sleep till around 3, but then they decided I better get up so I wouldn’t have a problem sleeping at night. We ordered pizza for supper and Mom was coming to get some leftovers for her supper but I convinced her to stay and have pizza with us, so she did, and took her leftovers home for later. Hehe
Saturday
We were supposed to go to the downtown Christmas parade but the weather today was rotten!! Timothy was asked to ride with “Little Miss Des Moines County” in her convertible, but with the wet, cold, icky weather, I thought it best that we didn’t go out. She was so disappointed! I am hoping that they will ask him to ride with her in the parade in the summer though. He just loves her, and she him, and I know he would ham it up and have a great time!
I cleaned the house today and ran to the store for a few groceries. Other than that though, we just stayed in out of the rain. I did a little re-organizing of my stamping/scrapbooking area. I have moved downstairs from my upstairs room to the dining room. With the two little ones, I just can’t take the time away from everyone to go upstairs to scrap/stamp anymore. I miss having my little oasis, but at least this way I can scrap/stamp amongst the family and I’m not so isolated (not that that was a bad thing hehe). I find I am getting much more done since I can just work for a few minutes here and there. I also did an overhaul of my Cricut cartridges. I needed to reorganize them and such, so I did that this evening.
I’m actually feeling quite accomplished!
Ok… I better post this before it ends up being a week long!!
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