Watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Daddy

This was the calm before the storm. I attempted to fix all of Thanksgiving dinner myself. Ok, Simon helped; but it was still a lot of work. It was lonely without any family here too. I missed everyone. No nieces and nephews, no aunties, and no Gammie and Grandpa. Just us. You all suck! Leaving us alone at Thanksgiving. So this is all the Ellie you get until you show up for her birthday next Saturday. Safe and happy travels. We will have Thanksgiving leftovers waiting for you. (Just kidding). Seriously, can't wait to see you peoples.

Happy 18th Birthday, My Sweet Boy

San Xavier Mission

Don't Use Your Momma as a Kleenex

Ellie has her very first cold. She is miserable, especially at night. Which makes Momma miserable, and everyone knows when Momma is miserable, everyone is miserable. Last night sucked. Ellie just didn't sleep from about midnight onwards. I finally escaped from her room around 4 AM. She woke up around 6:30 her usual time. Which was way too early. Simon brought her into our room. My eyes would not open. Simon wisely decided to take her with him when he took Philip to school around 7 AM. That hours sleep was so great. Thank you sweet husband.

So I am thinking that I need to get a humidifier for her room. Perhaps that will help with the strangling snot stage of her icky cold. (Here in AZ we have humidity of about 8% in the fall/winter. You can dry clothes on a hanger in the closet. It is that dry). So any humidifier advice would be good. I am a serious humidifier novice. Go figure. I had one kid already. I should be an expert. But the Philip didn't really have bad colds. He had Group A streptococcus. He had it 8 times. So if you want to know anything about Strep throat, I'm your man or Momma.

I heard a kids song the other day that made me laugh. The chorus was, "Don't use your Momma as a Kleenex." I laughed because Ellie didn't have a cold at the time. Now I am thinking someone needs to come up with a Kleenex dress just for Mommas during cold season. I would wear it. As long as it was in my colors.

Queen of Our Sleepless Nights

Simon's very cool Nightmare Before Xmas Jack o Lantern.

Flash photography sucks.

Seriously, Olan Mills, eat your heart out.