Thumbelina the Thanksgiving Turkey

After a few months getting used to a new job, settling into a new neighborhood, starting the kids at a new school, and figuring out why everything here starts and ends much later than Arizona, I was looking forward to a nice Thanksgiving break. With a nod of gratitude to my kids, the vacation started early for me with a couple sickdays home from work. It wasn't too bad; mostly a head cold featuring stuffed sinuses, a headache, dripping snot and a scratchy throat. After much consideration, I decided to stay home last Tuesday and Wednesday to try and recover.

A large part of the decision was out of concern for the guy with whom I share an office. My concern would be the same regardless of who shared my office. However, this situation required additional care because he is from India and I was afraid maybe the common American cold could completely take him out. And then, what if he took it home and it spread to others? Considering all these factors, staying at home seemed to be the best decision.

Thankfully, I was feeling better on Thursday. We all headed out to see Bolt. I thought it was much different than what the trailers lead one to expect. The previews focused mainly on the action parts of the movie, but in reality, it was another feel good Disney with some action mixed in. This worked out well for us due to the age of our children. My favorite character was the hamster, Rhino.

Thanksgiving dinner was great. In fact, having eaten it going on four days straight, I would have to say we did a good job. The kids don't eat our traditional Thanksgiving food, and it just kills me to see all that food go to waste. Therefore, my diet has been rice stuffing, yams, green beans and turkey. Yum...yet, time to move on.

In other news, after a quick stop at GameStop for some Christmas gifting, Josh and I headed to the library for some books. I would like to fill my evenings with some reading and decided to take on some heavier stuff. My current book is War and Peace. That is one thick book, and hopefully a good one. Anyone out there read it?

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Do you remember me?

Last night I was laying next to Emma in my bed while she got ready for sleep. She had decided to wear one of Genni's wool sweaters as part of her pajamas. I was laying there with my eyes closed and breathing through my mouth because my nose is all stuffed up. All the sudden I felt some hair or something in my mouth. Emma had found a wool fuzzball with lots of hairy tentacles and for some strange reason decided to stick it in my mouth. She just couldn't resist the open mouth.

Tonight the girls finished getting ready for bed and I was trying to get them in a bedroom for scripture time and prayer. I found Mary by following Joshua's yells. She was in the bathroom where Josh was showering turning the light off and on. Here is about how it went:

Mary turns off the light.

Josh yells, "TURN IT ON!"

Mary says, "Not me. Emma turned it off." (Emma is nowhere near the bathroom) She then turns it on and then turns it off again.

Josh yells, "TURN IT ON NOW!"

Mary says, "Emma, stop turning off the light." (Emma is still nowhere near the bathroom)

I walk in and Mary looks at me and says, "Not me. Emma turned off the light."

Isn't that fun?!

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