Nov-Dec 2011

Some memories from this month:

1. Danny came home at 7pm on a Monday two weeks before Thanksgiving, turned on Christmas music and said, "Let's decorate!" By 10pm, our house was Christmas-ready (almost).

2. Danny and I were talking about the inefficiency of housework, like the antiquated system of doing laundry. Sitting on Danny's lap and listening the whole time, Addy offered - unsolicited - her first invention idea (that's my girl!):  "Have a tube connect the washer and dryer, where, like, the clothes pass from the washer to the dryer, and then another tube out of the dryer that puts the clothes in the laundry basket." I thought it was GENIUS!

3. Speaking of laundry, Addy spent an hour hanging up clothes one Sunday evening because she said "I don't want you to have to do all the work."

4. Joey has discovered that pot lids look and sound magnificiently similar to cymbals.

5. Addy was watching a video of herself when she was two. We had to turn it off because she began to cry...she couldn't explain why but I know it's because she misses her family :(

6. We had such a great, relaxing Thanksgiving break together as a family. It was memorable because it was meaningful.

7. Joey has been saying our dinnertime prayer. Each time it goes like this: "Dear God. Thanks Mommy Jesus God."