Post-Thanksgiving Round-Up

Well, it's officially "the holiday season." We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend - appetizers with Tim's side of the family, dinner with mine, and then Friendsgiving on Friday afternoon with our friends with kids (our framily, as it were.)

The kids have had half days all this week, and we've spent a lot of time hanging out with friends at the park after school gets out, which is quite nice. There's a really great group of moms who have second graders and then a younger kid, and a lot of them actually live in our immediate neighborhood. Ellie's friend Anabelle hosted a Friendsgiving for the girls last Monday, which was darling.

Anabelle has a "club" and the girls go over every other week on Wednesdays. Anabelle's mom is a saint (those are her almost three year old twin boys.)

From our Friendsgiving. We're lucky to have all of these people, for sure.

We went and got our Christmas tree over the weekend and put it up. Thus far only one ornament lost, but Ellie's also crafted a half dozen more. The cats are being reasonably well behaved with the tree - we adopted them before Christmas last year, but by the time we brought them home the tree was already up, plus they spent a few days without having run of the house, so this feels the first real "tree" experience for the babies. They thankfully haven't shown any interest in climbing the tree. I asked Tim, now that Thor is gone, does he need ME to eat a bunch of the Christmas tree needles, then sit on the floor, yeowl in pain and immediately vomit said needles right back up? EVERY YEAR that poor dumb beast, and he'd do it through ALL of December.

Today I have the kids school conferences - Ellie's was this morning and she's a pleasure to have in class, smart as a whip, a good friend, all that good jazz. Adam's is this afternoon, and I am 100% going to ask his teacher which of my children is her favorite. Then we're off to Arizona at 4:30, headed to ride the Christmas Train with Judd and Lexi. Should be a blast! (a blast of cold air, it's going to be cold enough to snow in Flagstaff!)