whew...

life has been a crazy whirlwind. we were in atlanta for the week of thanksgiving. yeah! we had a lovely time. hanging with good friends...shopping at ikea....making good food. we drove back in 7 1/2 hours because we left after dinner saturday night. it was great. everyone fell asleep and slept the whole way. thank god for the drive-thru starbucks half way home. they're good for some things....

okay, i've decided my kids aren't brats. i was just having a momentary lapse of reason. they are great kids and you're right sharon..extremely passionate. today cora told me that i hurt her feelings and she felt like i was on everyone else's side. this verbalization is amazing to me. especially at age 6. i would have never been able to put in words something like that to my parents at that age! i still can't at the age of 37! so, for her to be able to say that to me very calmly was fabulous. i love being able to apologize to them for things i do wrong. i love that they get on my case because i cuss too much. i love that daily at least one of them makes me some kind of craft. my life would be SO dull without them in it.

we got a christmas tree today and i must go put the lights on it or there will be a revolt. they are waiting to hang ornaments!!