Well, thanks.

Last week pretty much flew by. I know I said I was taking a break from life...but really I think the only thing I took a break from was homeschooling. We had a great, but very busy week.

We spent most of Wednesday and Thursday out at my parents' house. We celebrate thanksgiving on Wednesday, and then hang out and eat leftovers and watch football on Thursday. There also might have been a little foosball with a 2 year old thrown in there, too. Game face pictured below.

After all the Thanksgiving festivities, we even did a little black Friday shopping. I can count the times I've shopped on black Friday on zero fingers. I am not much of a shopper, and I don't particularly do large groups of people, and I'm typically a cheap skate. Those don't add up to a good black friday shopper. But...I went. And I shopped. (And yes, I took the smiling, chatting, drooling 4 month old with me.)

As you can see on my "break" there wasn't any closing of the eyes allowed. People who close their eyed get squished under a 40 pound 2 year old who likes to pry your eyeballs open. He also likes to wear pajamas that don't match, obviously.

One of our family traditions around the holidays is shooting. None of us really hunt or anything, but we do love to take out a target or two. This year we repurposed all those pumpkins I made Billy carry out of the patch. They explode in a really gratifying way if you hit them just right. It's fun to sample the array of guns everyone brings with them. There was even a cannon. Kidding, but one of my bro-in-laws guns kind of sounded like one. It was responsible for the demise of quite a few of those pumpkins.

We even managed to fit in a sisters' (and their various husbands/boyfriends) movie night, and finally got to see Mockingjay. (So good!) It takes some strategizing to figure out what to do with all those kids we have. If any of my siblings besides me and Amanda decide to start having babies we'll need to hire a day care center just to make sisters' night happen.

 

I am pretty thankful for the break last week. It was good to mix up the normal routine and do some fun stuff. Fun is kind of scarce in the mom scene ya know. And busy isn't always exhausting...for those of us who don't spend our mornings prying people's eyelids open, that is.