This and That

I recently heard from an old friend – a very sweet “thinking of you” e-mail. She told me that she has been keeping up with me via my blog. Sometimes it is funny to be reminded that people who actually KNOW me do read my blog. I wonder, does it actually sound like me when I write, or do I sound like someone else?

Last Thursday I purchased a 12-lb frozen turkey and set it on the bottom shelf of my refrigerator. I’m hoping it will be thawed by Thursday morning; I left it in a couple of plastic bags just in case it thaws really well! In the past I’ve only given the bird 3 days of fridge time and it was still half-frozen on Thanksgiving morning!

I’m going to have to cut back on blogging over the holidays. My dh gets annoyed if I spend much time at the computer. Maybe this means I will actually get the house cleaned, the Christmas letter written, envelopes addressed…. What?? I can dream, can’t I?

If you are celebrating American Thanksgiving, I wish you a wonderful holiday. For my Canadian friends, why not go for round two? We have so much to be thankful for.

I’ll miss you when I’m absent from the computer, but family needs come first!

Not 70-gazillion (more like 150)

Field trip update:  the bus I was on had “only” thirty-three 7th graders.  This was the group I stayed with during the entire trip; however, there were 3 other groups from our school of approximately the same size.

And I am happy to report that field trips with 7th graders are MUCH easier than field trips with 2nd graders.  The noise level is about the same, but the kids are more responsible so it is less like herding cats.