So FESTIVE!

Sunday, 23rd - Parents house - siblings arrived!
Monday, 24th - Celebrating @ In-laws!
Tuesday, 25th - Cerebrating @ Home!, then parents!
Wednesday 26th - play at home then annual bookstore trip!
Thursday 27th - siblings over to visit - must clean house!
Friday 28th - Took Jul to the airport
Saturday 29th - Drove 4+ hrs. to see extended family!
Sunday 30th - More cleaning, Paul worked upstairs!

Any bets on me seeing in the new year tonight?
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It's all been a lot of fun but I am tired.
We did a little school work & craft time today. Laundry is in full swing.
I'm working hard to get the energy up to get the kids out to play in the new snow.
My other goal is to download the pictures from all this holiday-ing.

Third

This is a picture from the ultrasound on Monday. I'm pleased to say that everything looks good! I've been terribly remiss in keeping track of all the little facts, milestones & kidney stones but things are moving right along. Paul & the kids have all felt the baby move - so exciting! Progress on names is very slow. As is progress on the upstairs, but I don't think we need to think about that until after the holidays. I need to get to the post office (if I can get the car out of the driveway!) & make some goodies for the Christmas party tomorrow.

Egypt

Egypt makes for great crafts - and school, too, of course.
We finished the crook & flail a couple weeks ago, but I finally got a picture:

What's more, I posted it & wrote a little text. I haven't been keeping up w/ all I want to, but here's some progress. We have also made a pyramid:
And yesterday's project was a hieroglyphic scroll. I'll get a picture of that when we make our cuneiform tablet.
The Mummy is coming up fast. I can't wait.
How do you feel about Egypt, Des?

Putting the yard to bed

Today was remarkable in the co-incidence of a warmish day & me feeling well enough to get things done.
After the grocery & lunch it was finally time to go outside. I got a bunch of stuff done, like digging up the gladiola bulbs, planting the rooted climbing rose cuttings that have been on the porch all summer & fall, collecting the seeds from the giant tom thumb impatiens, carting away the pile of pine needles I raked up a month ago, putting all the potted plants and the trough in on the porch, and most importantly pulling up the few remaining plants & turning over the garden soil & adding some more lime. I am so excited to have gotten all of this done. I feel like I haven't done anything in the yard since the start of August. It felt good to be out there. The kids also had a great time - they harvested worms from the turned soil. Max dug a really deep hole for them to live in. Dessa took a great picture of me.


I took a picture of a worm.

A belated Halloween picture

Things seem so busy when I'm under the weather. The kids had a good time trick or treating - all the way around the block! We had a last hurrah of candy after lunch today, then I put the remainder in a bowl (wonder who'll eat that?) so I could put the pumpkin buckets & the rest of the Halloween stuff away.

Seige!

We had our annual trip to watch the trebuchet throw pumpkins. It was as fun as ever & the throws were creeping up over 2,000 feet. Sounds like Yankee Siege will get the world record in Delaware again.
We had everyone over here for food afterwards. The pork was pulled this year (we discovered the merits of pork shoulder!) Potato salad, carrot soup, cider, & those wonderful chocolate chip cookies. Now I'm hungry all over again!

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