I can't believe that next week is Thanksgiving! Where is the time going? I need to get an Advent calendar. I need to start Christmas shopping. I need to finish the laundry in my bedroom floor. Well, let's not get carried away. Forget that part about the laundry. What was I thinking?

There are a couple things that I'm actually not behind schedule on. (I apologize for ending the previous sentence with a preposition. But it's almost 10 pm and my grammar goes south after 9. It's common knowledge)  I have already ordered my Christmas cards, with family pics on them. I even ordered a cool new ornament for the tree this year. Speaking of the tree, I wonder how many ornaments will be broken between Isaac, Elijah and Thomas. I'm going to ballpark a guess at 7.

What am I going to bring to Thanksgiving at my stepsister's house? I don't know. Suggestions?

I'm bringing mashed potatoes to Elijah's preschool feast because no one else signed up to bring those and it looked lonely on the list with no parent signature next to it. So yeah, I'll be making mashed potatoes for 20 people to eat at snack time, which is 9:45 am next Tuesday.

Everyone like mashed potatoes for snack time. . . .

I feel like I haven't posted in forever, but it's only been a few days. We've mostly been getting ready for our quick trip to Alabama this weekend. I'm really looking forward to it! Some friends of ours just had a sweet baby girl, and this weekend is her baptism, and we're the sponsors.
We even caved, and borrowed some portable dvd players to amuse the kiddos in the van. We've never felt like those were a good idea for us, and we didn't need them at all when we went to Mississippi, a 6 hr drive. But with this being a 10 hr drive, we decided to give them a try. I'll let you know how it goes! ;o)
Side note: Packing is hard. What to take? What to leave? What if we need things I didn't think of?

Side note #2: Yesterday was my mom's birthday. I did tell her. But I'll say it again, Happy Birthday! :D

I just finished the new JD Robb book, Kindred in Death. It was good. I'm invested in that series and the latest installment was not a let down.

I hope to have pictures of our weekend adventure as we go. If it doesn't work out, you'll get them all in one whopping post after it's all over.

Lastly, I was looking for a photo to add to this post and had no picture of anything even remotely relevant to anything I said. So, I'm hereby initiating random photo Thursday.



See, didn't that picture make this post, like, 42% better already? I thought so too.

Have a great weekend everyone! Even though it's only Thursday night, I declare it early weekend. (If I can initiate random photo Thursday, then I obviously have the authority to declare "early weekend", right?)