Thanksgiving Week

Rick and the kids have been off this week. It has been a much needed time for our family. The next several posts will highlight some of the events of the week. We had a mixture of work and play with a lot of sleeping in(at least for Rick and me). I don't think Cody and Isaiah could sleep past 6:30 AM if their lives depended on it.

On Monday, we cleaned out our dining room. It became a makeshift office during the adoption process. There was so much paperwork to keep up with, I needed a place to lay it out and keep it handy. Rick has also used it as his place to work on the computer at home and pay bills. We have decided that we really need an office so we are going to create a makeshift office in our unfinished basement for now. It feels really good to have that room cleaned out. We are going to give it a test run tonight with one of our Thanksgiving traditions. More on that later.

On Tuesday, we put up the Christmas decorations. Pictures to follow.

On Wednesday, we spent the morning working on the basement. We are reworking how we use it. Adding two more people to our family has created some challenges in this house, and we are having to be creative with our space. So, for now, we are moving things around. Hopefully, at some point, we can move into a house that has a better use of square footage for the size family that we have.

On Thursday, we started a new Thanksgiving morning tradition. Lauren and Abby made omelets for everyone. We also had chocolate milk. Rick went to get a newspaper so we could look at ads for Black Friday and picked up our traditional Thanksgiving drinks at Starbucks. The kids and I watched the parade while I prepared the food items we were bringing to lunch. We spent the rest of the day with great friends and great food. It was really a good day. Pictures to follow.

On Friday, Rick insisted that we take advantage of the amazing weather so we headed to Cottonwood Creek Park for a while. After lunch, the girls and I worked on food for our big night tonight. Rick worked on the basement more. It is really shaping up!! Last night we ordered pizza and watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

Today, we celebrate our Family Thanksgiving Tradition. You will have to wait to hear more about that. I have much work to do to get ready!!!

If you are still reading this, I am really impressed. I did this post more for memory sake than for enjoyable reading.