Quick Takes Friday

Joining Jen at Conversion Diary for Quick Takes Friday!

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We've got snow! And lots more on the way, apparently. I am okay with this--even, possibly, happy about it.

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We're going do our Christmas decorating this weekend. Thanksgiving weekend always seems a bit early, but if I don't do it then, it seems that December is half over before we get to do it. It is getting harder and harder to catch us all home at the same time these days. We got the tree last Friday night, and put it in a bucket of water in the garage where it promptly FROZE. So now it's in the first-floor bathroom shower, still in its bucket. Any minute now, we'll set it up in the living room for decorating tomorrow.

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Today MPD and I will be heading to the middle kids' school for Mass and "Holiday Lunch." I always wonder: when they're having an actual Mass, and it is an actual Catholic school, why not just call it a Christmas lunch? I mean, seriously, people.

After lunch I'm going to bring all 3 kids home early so we can spend the afternoon baking cookies. What a rebel I am--teaching them to play hookey to do Christmas baking! Reminds me (okay, sort of) of when I skipped class in college to squeeze in a manicure before something-or-other. See--I've always been a total flake.

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Last night Bill gave me my Christmas present early...a digital videocamera! Hooray!! Our previous one, weighing in at about 10 pounds, always dated us as the parents who had our first child (and therefore, first videocamera) in 1998. It is time for an upgrade, and we needed it early in order to film some cool stuff coming up in the next week or so around here. Stay tuned to see the cool stuff!!

(Disclaimer: I'm not in the mood to put family videos on this blog--but you'll see photos of the cool stuff, as always.)

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What to make for Christmas dinner...turkey or roast beef? Turkey or roast beef? Thanksgiving is always turkey, of course, and around here, Easter is always ham. So I'm feeling like a bit of roast beast for Christmas, but it sure is hard not to have a do-over of that yummy Thanksgiving meal. We always have this dilemma. What's on the menu at your place--got any ideas to share?

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Hey! I (finally) joined the health club! It's great to (finally) be working out again, and MPD really LOVES it there. (I'm thinking this will be his 'preschool'--oh the poor deprived 5th child!) BUT...between the new workout schedule and the unemployed husband, I am REALLY getting nothing done around here. I am behind on everything. Maybe it's just because of, you know, December.

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Speaking of December, I was so calm and organized a few weeks ago, that I was smugly thinking "Holiday stress? Not me, man." This week, that's all out the window. The real reason I'm taking the kids out of school early today is that I don't have time to drive back up there twice--for lunch and to pick them up 2 hours later. Practically every half-day block from now until December 24 has at least one thing scheduled in it--sometimes several things, and one thing that is an all-day basketball tournament over 3 hours away. Falalalalah-lalalalah. Most of it is really fun stuff, though--and just 2 more weeks until Christmas!!

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Now go see Jen for more Quick Takes!