Wow! That week was so crazy busy I am just now picking up my head to breathe. You know the kind, your running from here to there from one gathering to another. All the kids are home and its all you can do to get 3 meals on the table each day. Last week was a doozy. Thursday November 15 started our kids Thanksgiving break. Why is it that a “Break” from school means no break for mom? Anyways, We hit the ground running.
The older boys W and D spent the night on Thursday with grandma and I was able to get a bunch of deep cleaning done. I am so thankful for the extra half day to prepare for the week ahead. My sister was coming and I was trying to get my office finished so she would have a nice quiet room to go to sleep in and take breaks in. It got mostly finished but I love the end product.
The weekend was pretty normal for a weekend. Friday night movie night, Saturday morning A goes to Bible study, Saturday night we go to small group and Sunday we attend church. Sunday afternoon we have our naps and lazy around for the rest of the day. Somewhere during the week my kids figured out we don’t have to be up at 6 and started to sleep longer. We watched tv, played tablets and played outside. (It was beautiful). We got the room ready for MW and picked her up Tuesday morning. We went directly to the exploration place (A science center in our local town) and shopping for the weekend.
Tuesday Morning J was up with a fever at 4:30 and sick most of the day. Tuesday night she had a febrile seizure and continued to have 8 through the night. The next morning we decided to take her into the doctor after she threw up twice. They diagnosed it as a virus that caused the fever which caused the seizures. We are very thankful it wasn’t anything worse and that she was starting to act normal by the time we returned home. Bossing her brothers around and everyone else in the house for that matter. My sister MW called her a baby dictator and that actually is pretty accurate. LOL
Wednesday we took the kids to a park and then tried to see the Grinch but decided to bring home the older one and watch it at home with our own popcorn and candy.
Thursday we made steak, biscuits and gravy and cinnamon rolls for breakfast with our fancy table cloth and china. We even had our friends and neighbors over and he drank his coffee from a tea cup 🙂 Thursday evening we had A’s family gathering with hamburgers for supper.
Friday we got up at 5:30 to leave the house at 6 to get to town for black Friday shopping. I went into wake MW at 5:55 and she says to me
MW “Wasn’t it 6:30 we were going to leave?”
Me “no it was 6 and its 5:55”
MW “Are you sure it wasn’t 6:30?”
Me “Nope, it was six, I am going to turn on this lamp so you can wake up now.”
MW reluctantly gets out of bed and is greeted by a cup of coffee from her big sister.
Our shopping trip was so much fun. And really we didn’t wait in huge lines to get the things we needed. We did learn that most of the door buster prices are gone by the time Friday morning comes around. Most of the shopping starts on Thursday night which I think is the worst thing they could have ever done. We got some awesome deals and had fun along the way.
Saturday was greeted by 65 degree weather and an absolutely perfect day. We dressed the kids up and took some family photos. (It was a disaster) I think maybe one turned out.
Sunday morning the wind and snow blew in and we decided not to attend church 45 minutes away. So we stayed home made comfort food and watched some movies my family had never seen.
Monday morning we dropped the boys at school and headed off to newton for some more shopping. We walked down main street browsing the shops and enjoying all the things to look at. We had coffee at a small coffee shop and headed back to Eldorado to pick up the boys. Then off to supper and the airport and the 6 days were over like that in a flash. We got home, did homework and then went to some much needed bed just to do it all over again this morning.
Looking back over the week I am filled with so much thankfulness. Mainly that I got that special time with my sister MW. We haven’t had a lot of time together over the years and this time was very special. We went to the exploration place, to family gatherings, made a delicious Thanksgiving breakfast to make my mom proud, and went black Friday shopping. We experienced J having febrile seizures through the night and lots of couch time with movies. We baked together and laughed together and shopped together, Oh did we ever shop together. Oh and drank a lot of coffee together.
So today and the whole week I am thankful for my family. I am thankful for my sisters. I am thankful for my husband and I am thankful for my kids. I am one very lucky woman to have all these people around me that love me so much.
I hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving with your families and friends. God bless all of you.
Signing off from one woman to another,
Jenny Wren.