Stacy I hope you used your best Eartha Kitt voice when you said you were going to hit yourself with a 'hamma'. Couldn't help but think of Emperor's New Groove. Thanks for the recipe. I think I will try to make some this week. Curtis and I will be the only ones to eat it, but hey, what else is new???

Karla, too bad you actually have to work when you are at work. I think I would take any afternoon off I could wrangle. Yuck on having to work on Fri. I'm glad you get to eat food you like this year. I'll bet it's fun with G.O. and Liz there too.

I got assigned to bring potatoes, stuffing and rolls to Thanksgiving dinner. Lori said my rolls had been requested. I was stupefied. I dont' ever make rolls, I guess they must have had one 2 or 3 years ago when I took them. I was going to practice baking all week, but suddenly I find I have run out of week, so tomorrow I'm just going to make some and hope, with all fingers, toes and eyes crossed, that they come out edible. The potatoes and stuffing are no big deal. There will be 36 of us at dinner this year. Glad I have a small house! Not really, I would love to have all of you come to our house for a dinner party some time. Hopefully in the next 19 years our addition will get done and we can make that happen.

Got my Visiting Teaching done, except for one lady who I can't seem to get hold of. I've left messages, but I haven't heard from her. Guess I could just give her a VT message over the phone if that's the only way we can contact her. My next big brain scrambling project is planning for Ford's class's Christmas party. Got to assign people to bring treats and figure out what I'm going to do for activities. If any of you have any ideas, I'd love some. I was thinking of a small gift exchange and 'figure out the Christmas carol' page. Luckily for me, Ford's teacher likes the parties short and sweet. And you don't have to have quite so many involved activities for 7th graders. They actually like to just eat treats and talk.

Well, better head off to bed. So much for a 'vacation'. I have many things on my to-do list.

Oh, yeah, Wendy. I finally went running again and I'm feeling it tonight. Shouldn't wait a week between runs. I think I'm too old for this......my knees hurt today. Oh, well, I'm sure I'll get used to it, and I really want to do this. Coolio on the house plans and girls in preschool. Can't wait to see you all again and watch your growing family. Maybe you just need to give Ben a big box to keep his 'stuff' in that you can put in a closet during the day so you don't have to look at it.....

Okay, really going now. Love you all so much, thanks for blogging so often, it's the first thing I click on every day!