Did you know that tomorrow is December 1st? Crazy! I had so many ideas and plans for the holidays and now I find myself scrambling, as usual. I’m in a bit of a cleaning frenzy because I have to have a clean, uncluttered house before I can get out box after box of Christmas decorations. Lex and I are negotiating on what to do with his artwork/wallpaper currently cluttering… er, I mean decorating the walls of the dining room. I haven’t even told the kids (or hubby for that matter!) my rearranging plans for the living room. Need to get a tree in there somewhere… not sure how it’s all going to fit. We may end up losing a toy shelf or recliner chair. No one will be happy! Just kidding… mostly… major furniture gets priority over a Christmas tree. I’m hoping to get the cleaning done this week and do some decorating this weekend. Lex loved decorating the neighbor’s trees. Not sure when we’ll get one of our own. I can’t believe we used to wait until Christmas Eve!!

Speaking of Christmas Eve… I started playing Christmas music the other day (and singing it and I love that the kids love to hear me sing!) and every time a song says “Christmas Eve” my little girl says “Christmas EVE?!!?! I’m not Christmas!” I tried to explain that “Eve” is her name and a word with another meaning, but she still giggles whenever she hears Christmas Eve. :) I love her!

We were in Franklin for Thanksgiving and I was unmotivated to blog. If I were a serious blogger I would have had a post all lined up and scheduled to post on Thanksgiving day. Did you know you can schedule a post to go live some other time? I’ve never done it. I’m not a serious blogger :)

Anyhoo… we were in Franklin this year. We had fun. The kids love the country and I love that the kids love the country. It’s so nice to have a country home to go to. We took a long walk on Thanksgiving day and relaxed and played and Lex made placecards for dinner and we all ate and life is good. I had a much snazzier post written in my head, but it’s gone. Maybe some pics will help.

Today we went to a holiday party at the neighbor’s house. The first holiday party of the season. We are already exhausted!

Probably no one but me will care about this, but I just imported the Baby Zig blog into this one, so now all of my blog posts ever (well, family related blog posts anyway) are here and searchable. Cool, huh?! I think so :) Someday I’d like to go back through them all and make all sure everything works perfectly and tag everything and blah, blah, blah, but for now the posts themselves are here and the pictures and that will be good enough. :)

On our nut-binge-grocery-trip the evening after Eve’s allergist appointment I grabbed a big bag of mini-Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups (YUM!!) to make cookies that I had been drooling over for many months. We made the cookies, ate too many, ate even more peanut butter cups, and made more cookies. When they were finally gone Lex was very sad and asked me to buy more at the store. I promised him I’d buy him a treat, but silently committed to NOT buy of those candies because I eat way too many of them. Put me in a room with chocolate and peanut butter and I loose all control. It’s really quite sad. Anyway, Eve and I picked up a big bag of pistachios at BJs instead and Lex, my darling Lex, was even more excited about them than the candy! He eats pistachios (and calls them fastachios) at every meal and every snack. Every. Single. One. Can a kid eat too many pistachios? I hope not! I have trouble resisting those too, but not as much trouble and I figure at least they are healthier than candy.