A Christmas Photo Shoot

Now we all know how easy these things are. You get all the kids dressed just so, then you realize while you were working on the hair assembly line someone has laid down on the couch and gotten comfy with all the pillows or decided this would be a great time for a quick round of WWF Smackdown. They never go according to plan. My orginal plan was to take them down to the beach in the beautiful dresses for a barefoot Christmas...If you read the previous post you are laughing out loud right now at the thought of my distress over everyone soaking wet in their gorgeous silk dresses! As you can imagine even without the threat of saltwater things were still impossible stacked against me!

I'm spent!

Cold & Wet

The Friday after Thanksgiving, while the rest of the world was getting up at 4am to go shopping we were loading the kids in the car for a family bonding roadtrip. Bagels and coffee at 5:30, the sun at 6:30, gas at 7:30, one last stop for lunch around 10 and we're there! Carlsbad. Ahh the beach.




We had a great weekend, legoland, visiting with the neighbors, the beach. Good friends, good times! The place looks nearly unrecognizable since the transformation Bill & Bette have put it through. Looks fab, I must say! The kids crack me up, it was cold and overcast and who would want to get wet in those conditions? So, genious that I am...not a towel or change of clothes or anything redeeming at all. I never thought they would want to get wet. I thought we would walk on the beach while it was quiet and how quaint would that have been. Then I was rudely awakened from my idyillic family dream only to realize they are all now soaking wet and poeple are wondering what kind of incompetent mother I must be. No worries, there's towels and blankets in the car, hmm what's that you say? Oh, that's right....NO there isn't! Pleasant ride back to the house for those salty babes. Fortunately it's just around the bend....

Happy Thanksgiving 2008!

This Thanksgiving we decided NOT to do the double-dip thing and chose just one family to visit. When you see the family you might be tempted to think I had a hand in the decision making, but I assure you I AM a fan of the double-dip holiday. If we can't all be in the same location then we should be in EVERY location. It's a terrible burden to bear.... This year Travis decided he was going to relieve me of this stress regardless of my preference. He chose Megan's (I think he's afraid of me). She does live so far away and this year Aunt Louise was in town, so all is well that ends well. I did however, have to take a piece of the Deatsch tradition's to her house even though she insisted we need not bring anything. Brocolli cheese casserole, ymm.

The kids had a great time which is pretty plainly obvious, well all but one kid anyway....