This post may resemble a disjointed list more than anything like a thoughtful journal entry. And I suppose that's what I get for being a little less than regular with my posts. But I will say that I am so grateful for the nice break we all had to celebrate Thanksgiving with our family.
Celebrations started on Monday with Mara's party in Nursery School. I am the class parent for her class, which truly meant nothing more than organizing a very short list of snack foods for their party and baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies because that is something the Pilgrims and indians clearly would have had at their feast. At the party we made hand print turkeys ans pilgrim hats and enjoyed everything you can remember about a preschool Thanksgiving party. It was adorable and I loved the chance to get to know the other kids in the class and watch their teachers do their thing.
Wednesday was the day of parties for the big(ger) kids, and we were lucky to have Daddy along for the fun. God bless his heart- he had no idea what the noise level or typical chaos rating was going to be for 15 kindergarteners and 23 3rd graders who were juiced up on a combination of carbohydrates, chocolate and anticipation of their break. I suggested Jason take an appetizer of Excedrin migraine before we got into school. All went well- including a major pinch hit for us in Josh's class where we needed to replicate chocolate fondue that was nut safe. It wasn't quite as cool as the other kids', but Josh rolled with the punches like he normally does.
As soon as we got the green light to head out, all of us piled in the Suburban and pointed it toward Lewistown. The kids were thrilled to be going to stay over for a few nights. Toby was spending his first trip at the kennel. The kids wasted no time once we got there, and Mom's house went from tidy to a train wreck in under a half hour. There were games,tea parties, Nerf wars, puzzles and art projects for days.
Our Thanksgiving dinner was delicious- as always. And we all enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather and went for a walk after we cleaned up the kitchen. It was lovely!
Friday came too fast and soon it was time for us to head home. I had a goal of getting our tree up and trimmed before we had to retrieve our retriever at 5:00 pm. This plan likely would have turned out great if it hadn't been for Lauren's bout of car sickness as we pulled onto our street. I then spent an hour cleaning barf out of the car, while questioing my rationale for allowinf goldfish crackers to be the snack for the ride home. We tossed her car seat and all of its vomit soaked nooked and crannies. Then, we were challenged by a pre-lit tree that was no longer lighting, which required us to unwrap all 8 trillion lights from the tree. It wasn't a "ho ho ho" moment, let's just say. By some small miracle, we ended up getting the tree done with 15 minutes to spare before taking off to get Toby.
I think it is safe to say that the kids were theilled to have him back home.
Saturday was a special day for Lauren because her Daddy had decided to take her to see the Nutcrackerin Williamsport. We got her all dresed up, did her nails ans curled her hair for the occasion. It was precious.
And just because we didn't have enough going on, we had a mattress delivered for Mara on Saturday to move her into a big girl bed. She was so excited.
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