giving thanks

so we hosted thanksgiving dinner at our house. it was wonderful-uncle steve (my dad's brother), aunty suki and jonathan (yes, his son's name is jonathan too) came over for turkey. the turkey and 8, yes, 8 side dishes came out great. we tried the brown paper bag turkey recipe and boy did it make the turkey juicy! ate *lots* of food and finished the meal with pumpkin pie....mmmmmm...

got to relax on friday and saturday. nothin' like actually feeling like you can relax because the house is clean, laundry's done and there's no school work to do. so much of the time there's always something that needs to be done and i don't feel like i can truly relax because i know it's there, waiting to be "tackled". so what'd i do? i caught up on downloading grey's anatomy songs from itunes, ordered some new christmas lights to decorate our roof line, watched some of my tivo'd shows from like 2 weeks ago and started on a project. can't tell ya' what it is because some people who read this blog will get it for christmas. :)

can't believe it's already sunday...back to school tomorrow. 4 more weeks until winter break. i'm sure it will fly by as it always does. in a way i have mixed feelings about monday approaching. i feel both anticipation and a bit hesitance (because i like the calm right now). like we're right on the verge of it all just coming lose. monday means that the christmas season is really underway (for me anyways. i know that a lot of people kicked their christmas season off by going shopping this weekend. i opted to stay home this year.). the holiday rush is beginning: getting the christmas decorations out, seeing about the firefighters (mmmm-hmmm) coming to put the lights up, going to breakfast with santa, working on orders for gifts that need to be placed in advance so that it'll be ready for christmas, getting the perfect christmas gifts, getting the christmas tree, etc. jonathan will tell you that i *really* get into it for christmas. i'm usually the one outside hanging the lights on the roof, not him! :) and, i will get into it this year as i always do. i think i just like the lull of the leisurely days after thanksgiving, after having prepared for the family gathering on thursday. so nice to just lounge around in pjs!

did anyone go shopping over the weekend? wanna hear how it went. just because i didn't go shopping, doesn't mean i don't like to hear others' victories among the crowds! :)