My schedule

Brad left on Sunday night and came home tonight in time to meet me in the parking lot of Teddy's 8pm basketball practice. Tomorrow night Brad will take Jackson to his basketball practice while I get Ted. On Friday Brad is picking Teddy up from school early and the two of them are heading down to VA to go to a comic book convention (cuz there hasn't been enough of that in our lives) and won't be back until Sunday. Jackson and I have a fun Mother/son weekend planned including trips to the Aquarium and to a paint your own pottery studio - he's ever so excited.

Then on Monday Brad's mom will show up for about 10 days. We have parent teacher conferences on Tuesday night and basketball practice on Wednesday night and then of course Thursday is Thanksgiving and we are hosting for 16-17 people, which we love to do, but of course it doesn't happen all by itself. Sometime between now and Thanksgiving, all the Christmas junk that is in the middle of the rooms (read boxes of artificial trees and other assorted decorations and piles of normal non Christmas stuff that needs to be taken out of the house) needs to find a home and the house needs to be cleaned, food shopping needs to happen, and a whole bunch of food needs to be made for people to begin arriving at 12:30 to watch football with dinner to be served at 3:00.

Then of course we will have 9 days until our Christmas party. So the rest of the decorating will have to happen and at some point we'll need to do more shopping (after we actually sit down and decide what to serve) and lots more food will need to be prepared, and I'll have to figure out what to wear (last year that never made it on the list and I was running around getting stuff ready till the bitter end and ended up just leaving my jeans on all night long - which I guess is better than taking them off at some point.) Of course there will also be lots of MIL entertaining happening in there as well; at least a movie or two, some shopping, hair appointments...

There's just lots of stuff
Camela