I really might as well have gone to a four am black Friday sale...I honestly had a terrible time sleeping last night. When I got up the second time (at 3 am) I noticed that our living room, which is on a different heating system of the house was still 70 degrees (the programmable thermostat goes to 62 at 10pm) which leads me to believe that hubby set the temperature in the main part of the house way too high because my family is sleeping in our usually a little cold basement. I turned the heat WAY down at 3, and tried to go to sleep again around 4 am - succeeded, and here it is before 8, I am up so that I can be a nice host to my family.
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Speaking of black Friday sales - I had originally intended to go to Wal-Mart for their 10 pm start of toys, etc. but in the end I wimped out on the two hours of driving, and my SIL who lives in the same town as Wal-Mart volunteered to go for me - in the end, she didn't get there in time for the Wii game that Eva really wants - and she called to let me know it was crazy. Apparently she saw women throwing punches over a trampoline. I don't know if she got anything (though I assume she probably found some of the items) and she is going this morning with a friend to a real city to go to craft stores for their sales.
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Thanksgiving went well. My turkey got done over an hour before I expected it to - but I left it in for an additional 30 minutes just to make sure it was okay. We had 21 people and 5 dogs. I had a little bit of a freak out a few days ago about dessert, because I wasn't sure if anyone was bringing any, so I called my mom and switched her from relish tray to pie. They stopped at Village Inn on their way down and brought two pies. Hubby's aunt who usually brings pie brought 2 pies. MIL brought 2 pies because she knew I was worried about it - and I had a pumpkin cheesecake. No lack of dessert - although 4 of the pies were varieties of pecan pie.
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I really haven't had much of a week off considering we took the whole week off school between having the girl's pictures done, cleaning and cooking...hopefully we have a nice quiet weekend. My family will be heading home today after lunch, and I really don't plan to do much before Monday.
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I never did find a good deal on a banquet table - but in the end, we rented some tables from the local hardware store (that I need to drive in and return later today). The lady who we talked to when we reserved them said she didn't know if they were 6 ft or 8 ft or 10 ft. I thought that was a pretty big range. They turned out to be 6 ft, so we rented two and put them side by side in our living room. I figure $10 wasn't a terrible price for a decent, sturdy second table.
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Some of the thanksgiving activities that were enjoyed here were: blowing up a barrel with explosives, trap shooting (hubby's family), playing several games of bananagrams, some fairy uno (little girls and whatever adults they could sucker into playing), pet detectives (same thing), lots of Wii games - Just Dance and Mario Kart being the most popular, watching the movie Monsters vs. Aliens, reading books and napping on the couch. Thanksgiving generally begins at around noon, and lasts ALL DAY - I think that the last people not staying overnight left when I told the girls it was time to go to bed around 8:30 or 9 pm.
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Being the dork that I am, I have been doing some black Friday shopping online - but there is not much I want to get. MIL is trying to buy a new TV for SIL - so I keep calling to tell her to look at different deals, but generally she misses them. Just found one at Amazon, called her and she answered her phone. Of course, it's been live for 3 minutes and is 37% gone, so we'll see if she manages this one or not. I guess I just love an excuse to look on Amazon about every 10 minutes all morning.
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