Thankful

Despite my crabby demeanor lately, I'm trying to remember what today is all about. This year, I'm especially thankful for:

• healthy kids, especially the healthy,active baby boy on the way


• a husband who puts up with me and tries hard to make me happy


• having the means to go shopping for gifts for the people we care about tomorrow


• the fact that all 4 of our parents are here to spend the holiday with

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fall re-cap:

Ok so better late than never. I was waiting to have some Halloween pictures to go with this posts and ooops-- it's almost Thanksgiving. It was a strange fall this year. We were wearing shorts until almost Halloween. Now just a few weeks later, it's dipping to freezing at night, yet the leaves are at their peak and falling. Strange. Halloween was it's usual chaos. Both boys enjoyed the trick or treating and dressing up this year. It really feels like a tradition now as it's the 6th year that we went out in our neighborhood. Mommy ate lots of candy afterward and I'm very anxious to see the scale at thie doctor's this morning for my 28 week appt.

We visited Linvilla Orchards for a hayride, the corn maze and the pumpkin patch. We did some fall cleanout in the storage room and outdoors. Christine held her halloween party, where I could again count on pigs in a blanket and some seriously cute pictures. The boys both had parades and parties at their school. And then by November 2nd, I was so excited to put it all away and enjoy the "calm before the Christmas storm".

More soon as the Christmas rush begins!