Almost Thanksgiving

For some reason it doesn't really feel like it's almost Thanksgiving. The weather has gotten colder, we have 14 ft. of leaves in the back yard and Ohio State beat Michigan, but it still doesn't feel like Thanksgiving should be this week. I'm not looking forward to the time suck that occurs once Thanksgiving hits, either. It's like the world goes into some kind of weird time warp making Christmas seem like it's 2 weeks after turkey day.

Since our family and friends are scattered across the country, our Thanksgiving is usually pretty low key. We'll be heading to my mom's house, about 15 minutes away, so at least we won't have to pay outrageous gas prices to travel somewhere. Of course my mother doesn't know how to cook a Thanksgiving dinner for less than 12 people, so we'll definitely have leftovers upon leftovers. I basically gave up on grocery shopping this weekend, knowing we'd be eating turkey and stuffing for half the week.

I'm cooking a few things, but cooking is somewhat of an art form now that Lauren is walking around. She's close to 3 ft. tall, so her hands can easily reach the open flame of the gas burners on the stove. (Don't worry, she hasn't burned herself since her birthday.) She understands most of what we're saying, but she doesn't understand why she can't touch the stove and why Mom and Dad are so mean when they say no to that. Any serious cooking or baking has to be done after Lauren goes to bed.

The last 3 or 4 days have been interesting around the house. Lauren and Chris have both developed a nasty, snotty, cold. I'm not quite sure how I've managed to avoid it. Maybe Chris has been getting more snotty, open-mouth kisses from Lauren than I have. It's probably only a matter of time.

Have a good week!