Week 23 - a lot to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving! The boys have already given me something to be thankful for - they slept until 7:30 AM! I have been sleeping well lately. Making it from about 10:00 PM - 5:30 AM. I know it's not eight hours but it is solid, uninterrupted sleep.

The last week has been uneventful in babyland, much like previous weeks. I did receive confirmation that Baby Qua #3 will be arriving on March 23, 2009. Unless s/he decides to come early. But the other two didn't want to come out at all so I can't imagine this one will want to come early!

In the last week DQ and I have managed to go out, twice. All my usual babysitters are home from secondary school so we are taking advantage of having them back. It is a win-win situation. They earn money, we get to go out and the boys have fun!

Tomorrow we are headed to South Deerfield. We will stop along the way at Cracker Barrell, then arrive at the flagship Yankee Candle Factory store in S. Deerfield. It is an amazing place. First of all, it is huge. Inside are rooms with different themes, including a toy room, a train room, and of course lots of candles. We easily spend two to three hours there just looking at everything. Then there is Santa. Santa is there year round. The YCF claims that he is THE Santa. All the rest are fake. So we will wait in line for the boys to see Santa. They have already told me they are going to spend time today creating a list for him!

Once we leave the candle factory we head out to a tree farm in the middle of nowhere. We are probably going to use a fake tree this year, since we aren't going to be here over the holidays. But we still want to get a tree and give it to someone. Do you know how hard it is to give away a tree?! We have asked several friends if we could give them/get them a tree and they have all declined. I understand wanting to pick your own but how often does someone offer to buy a real tree and give it to you! We have tossed around the possibility of just putting up the real tree in our house and then leaving it to die while we are gone. Or taking it to VA with us. Although I am not sure what we would do with it in VA. Unless my parents wait and use our tree as theirs. But I am pretty sure they will already have theirs up. We will figure something out!

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
til next week -
Mummy Q.