<p>We’ll be out of town at MILs for a couple of days so they are mine during that time. The rest of the time I expect they will spend with their friends. If it’s anything like in the past that just means that I’ll have mine plus other kids at my house. Our house in the past has always been the place to hang out and it’s not uncommon for the kids to hang out with my H and I. H and I will rent a movie or something like that and start watching it in a room that the kids aren’t and suddenly they are all in there with us. Go figure.</p>
<p>Oregon, grrr…too early.</p>
<p>China, you’re right–Friday night they will be with their friends for sure.</p>
<p>Our fam (and mind you there are 3 enormous boys) watches “White Christmas” together EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Still. DH sings the “Sisters” song. I don’t know why this is the chosen movie, but it is and I love it!!!</p>
<p>Count your blessings and the best things happen when you’re dancing are my favorite songs of all time</p>
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<p>Did I sleep post that? RochesterMom, I could have written the identical post. All day yesterday I had this list in my mind of what I wanted to accomplish when I got home from work. But younger D wanted to work out, so after we worked out and I fed her, it was after 8 pm, so what did I do? I sat on the couch and watched all two hours of So You Think You Can Dance and did nothing from my mental checklist!</p>
<p>Moda, lol–me too! There’s one dancing song we skip through every year… </p>
<p>Ok, Missy et. al back to basics: make an ACTUAL list and check things off–you’ll feel SO much better! </p>
<p>We’ve had a hole in our kitchen ceiling for 18 months (lath and plaster repair–leak from upstairs bathroom) I don’t look up, so its pretty much been invisible to me for that long…but the inlaws are coming, so its been repaired and hopefully will be painted before they arrive next Tuesday. I’m almost 50: how come I still feel like the young newlywed???</p>
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<p>Oh, great. Are you saying that we now have to repair the mess that is the powder room ceiling (due to upstairs AC leak) before the inlaws arrive next week?! I’ll leave that to H…I know that he’ll be the one to get grief about that one from his dad - not me.</p>
<p>SJTH: I make a list. I write it down. I arrange the chores by days of the week. I add in the exercise, make dinner, etc. I just don’t get to check any thing off other than exercise and dinner and then I feel bad 
I’m just not realistic about what I can do. Washed curtains on Sunday. Laid them out so that I wouldn’t have to iron as soon as they were done in the drier. Planned on hanging them on Monday night. They are still just sitting there and now that they have been there for several days I probably have to iron them. I just didn’t have time either Monday or Tuesday night to get to them. Well I tried Monday night and couldn’t remember how to hang them. Several different rods and pieces and I can’t for the life of me remember how they go together. I need to do a web search and look. Then I was just frustrated. I have sense tried to go through my day to day activities list and move more to the weekend days so that hopefully I won’t feel like I get nothing done.</p>
<p>James Taylor - DH and I were engaged at a James Taylor concert! 26 years ago.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if there is a mental list or physical list…at some point I just get really really tired and can’t accomplish anything “extra” over and above the normal daily grind. This morning I did find a place for the flamingo wine glasses, plates and ice bucket that D talked H into buying in the summer. We needed those like a hole in the head and it’s always up to me to find a place to store all this stuff. Still have to find a place to store the huge breakable flamingo platter (and no, I can’t figure out a way to incorporate it into the outdoor Flamingo Christmas decorations.)</p>
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<p>Has anyone seen the stage play? Our rival HS is doing *White Christmas *as its musical and I wonder if it’s worth the trouble to try to squeeze it in. Seems like the fun of the movie is in the stars and the costumes.</p>
<p>5 sticky notes on the computer and 4 more on my bathroom mirror.Did pick up Holiday stamps while at the mailbox. Make 28 loaves of pumpkin bread as gifts every year. Usually have begun by now.
Challenge for the day is to find missypie’s breakable flamingo platter a place in the Holiday decorating.</p>
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<p>You are so very sweet. If D’s room didn’t have to be transformed into the guest room for the inlaws, I’d just stick it into her room…it’s ordinarily such a mess that it wouldn’t be noticed.</p>
<p>SJTH - I know that hole in the kitchen ceiling lath and plaster! I have a twin! Here’s the guerilla-slum-landlord-five-minute-fix if you’re under duress:
Bought a white grate approximate size of hole at lowes for $6 bucks.
Bought four screws.
Stood on ladder and screwed it in.
Tout finis.
That was 5 years ago.
Folks sometimes ask me what it is.
I tell them its a safety escape hatch for the next time the tub leaks. Kind of like a submarine : )</p>
<p>How odd! I too have a breakable flamingo platter…
Do you mean White Christmas on B’way this year? I was thinking about tickets for the family as my Christams gift to all…</p>
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<p>Same show but a local HS production…I’m just wondering if the actual show is any good.</p>
<p>kmccrindle, I can do it cheaper. Hole in our den ceiling from fixing the master shower above. It has been covered with white poster board and white thumb tacks for a while now. </p>
<p>Should be an easy fix, but that would also mean painting the ceiling of both the den and the kitchen, since there is no break between them. And since I have plans for that kitchen post-tuition, I think I can wait.</p>
<p>^^There was atime in our lives when at least one room in our house had to have a hole in the ceiling.</p>
<p>ohhh these do my heart good. The hole in the plaster on our stairwell (overflowed toilet!!) may just have to wait.</p>
<p>Talked to D last night Calc gave her trouble. She is repeating it to get a better grade and is contemplating a major change. From bio to English with a Creative Writing emphasis. She was quite cheerful about the possibility. :)</p>
<p>If you guys all had perfect houses I prob wouldnt be on this. You are all great parents, very intelligent and caring people. interesting. thats better</p>
<p>Well, you’ve come to the right place if you want imperfect houses!</p>
<p>Son just called out of the blue. He had been thinking about the time in elem school when the cafeteria lady spilled a piece of broccoli on his arm and it burned him through his shirt and he had a broccoli shaped scar on his arm for about three years. He wondered if we hadconsidered suing the school. </p>
<p>I wonder what possibly put that in his head today???</p>