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What? Thanksgiving is THIS Week?

life, Thanksgiving, vacation

Here’s what I’ve been doing:

  • frantically putting pages into the family scrapbook from last February, so I don’t hit the “year behind” mark in a couple of months
  • shopping for other families for Christmas
  • taking my kids to swim lessons
  • taking my kids to piano lessons
  • sending my kids outside to play in the snow because they are much to crazy to be inside
Here’s what I haven’t been doing:
  • planning the Thanksgiving meal I’ll be making beginning tomorrow
  • washing the sheets for my visitors’ beds (yep, arriving tomorrow)
  • cleaning the house
  • cleaning the car
  • shopping for my own family for Christmas
  • blogging
I’m having nervous withdrawal twitches from being mostly offline for a couple of days.  When your kids have an entire week off for Thanksgiving, it can throw you for a loop, let me tell ya.
Still, I know my mom will want clean sheets.  Better get busy.  Hope she’ll be thankful.
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Rules for Carpooling with Teens and Tweens

kids, Parenting, tweens and teens
Earlier this week, over at the parenting.com blogs, Mommy Needs Coffee posted “8 simple rules for surviving the carpool:  their version and mine,” for parents of teens.  I would argue that this applies to tweens, as well.  It is much funnier than anything I have to offer today.  Number 7 (of hers) is my favorite.
“If I tell you to have a good day and (heaven forbid) tell you I love you when I drop you off and you decide to ignore me, I will most definitely roll down the window and shout, “Make good choices!” I have done it before and will do it every time. You have been warned.”
So pop on over and read it for a good laugh.  And be sure to share it with your teen.
Cheers!
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