Had such a good time tonight watching the Rockefeller Center Tree lighting on TV with Gwynn. I mean, even if it was highly commercialized, with all the people singing (or not so much singing but lip synching) that have current holiday CD's out, it still was fun. She is SO me sometimes, professing "I just love Christmas music...and that one song..."It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?" well, HELLO, it IS!" Love that little girl! Devin even came over and joined us towards the end, when they started to hype the 36,000 lights. I mean, that has always been his thing..."Light On, Light Off..." Tim was out having his Ducks Unlimited Wrap Up dinner at Red Sun in Oswego. He may have missed the holiday music fest, but I am afraid to inform him that the rest of his crew is ready to haul out the holly! Decorations go up tomorrow...we NEED a little CHRISTMAS!

Yep, sick hubby last night, so still didn't get too much sleep. But, fortunately, my student teacher started with "the whole show" today, so it was a pretty easy day to get through for me. She did a nice job, too. It is always so hard, when you are first starting out teaching, to stay on a schedule, and she did very well. I on the other hand, emailed with mom about Christmas stuff, cyber shopped a little, organized my files, returned and checked out more books at the library, went through boxes, etc. It was really nice to be able to do the stuff I keep putting off. So, to my ST, for accepting the irony that is paying the college to come and do MY job, thanks! I gift you my classroom, and in turn accept the gift you give me...TIME.

And we ease into Sunday night pretty sure we have a sick husband on our hands. Aargh! I guess I should resolve myself to being next. I hate that "waiting for the other shoe to drop" feeling.

Did have a nice night, though, driving home from Lansing, in the dark, singing along to our new Glee Christmas CD, and seeing holiday lights everywhere. It really is the most wonderful time of the year...

at least once everyone gets HEALTHY DAMNIT!

Ahhh, great moments in parenting. You didn't hear from me yesterday as we were knee deep in vomit. Yeah, good times. Devin started at 11, Gwynn chimed in around 1, and we were up with one or the other the rest of the night, with the last bout being around 6 am. Ummm, yeah, that bad. As I lay in bed, delerious, next to Tim at one point I said, "In all these years I don't think we have ever had them both sick, and this sick, at the same time." Milestones. Gotta love 'em. We seem to be on the mend this evening, which seems like noon since we didn't even crawl out of bed today until about 11:30, so I suppose I should just be thankful for that. Sigh. I am ready for Thanksgiving to be over.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
Sweet rolls
Family
Wine
Wine with Family
A brand new baby nephew
Turkey and all the fixins
Pies aplenty
Rest
These are the things I am thankful for today.

...ahhhh, the peace that comes from being at your mom's house and being taken care of. That never goes away. That is what I am thankful for on this Thanksgiving Eve.

After all the hard work of the last couple of days, the universe sent my reward.

It has been noted that I spent a while looking for pencil skirts to no avail. I found one, finally, at Macy's on Veteran's Day. Low and behold, another one came my way tonight. Then to top it all off, at the marked down price, and with a $15 off coupon, JCPenney's pretty much paid ME to take the skirt off their hands! $5.39! Seriously!

Ya gotta love a bargain!