Things I both did, and didn’t over the past two weeks.

I did not super clean my house.  I am in process of supercleaning my house, because, well, that HOLIDAY is this week.

As long term readers know, Thanksgiving USED to be my favorite holiday.  No longer.  My family has gotten just a tad bit too dysfunctional to make it a glorious day.  I wonder if my Grandmother felt the same way, and if she did, will I be able to hide it as well as she did?

The turkey THIS year, is safely, and according to FDA instructions, thawing slowly in the refrigerator.  I thought it might be fun to thaw it in the tub again, but you all remember last year’s little debacle???  Of course, THIS bathroom has linoleum in it, so maybe the flood wouldn’t be QUITE as bad….

I did get ½ Pint’s room cleaned. Supercleaned.  And, all the toys matched, binned and put safely somewhere where allegedly, they will be easy to put back once played with.  Sounds really good, in principal.

Pint’s room is today’s project.

It will take all day. Perhaps all week.  Pint has lots and lots of ‘stuff’.

If the person who invented bunk beds was so freakin smart, why didn’t he/she invent an easy way of putting on clean sheets?  My answer?  When I finally move the bed and do the sheet change, I put like SEVEN bottom sheets on. Then I just remove them one at a time.  When I am down to the last one, it’s time to deep clean the room anyway, so the bed gets moved, the side rail detached, and the seven sheets get put back on the bed.

I put all of the newest CD’s on all three players for all three girls this weekend. This entailed two computers and three different programs.  Itunes for Pint who has an iPod.  Pint’s computer for her music.  Then burn discs off the iTunes because ½ Pint’s FP3 player from Fisher Price will not recognize the Hannah Montana CD’s as CD’s because they also have a PC component.  And, when you load the disc in, the computer part of it pops up and the FP3 program thinks it is a DVD, and doesn’t read it. Stupid Fisher Price.

Then, after all that, import the disc’s to Window’s Media Player for ¾ Pint’s Disney Ariel MP3 player.

Now, to start the holidays, they all three have the latest Naked Brothers Band tunes, Hannah Montana’s latest disc along with the Miley Cyrus CD that came with it, (I know, they are the same person, but apparently they sing different types of music???), and of course, they also have the latest Cheetah Girls tunes.  I won’t allow Fergie. They don’t like that. Get over it.

I unpacked the last two boxes from our bathroom and bedroom.

I did not put the canopy on the bed.  It won’t fit in our new bedroom cause the ceiling is too low.  My bed is MASSIVE and stands over 7 feet tall.  I miss my canopy.

I did not get the bookshelves made. The books are still resident in my closet, in the many, many, many boxes.

Pint scored the second highest in her school on her achievement test. Her school is very glad to have her. She is raising their scores LOL.

The girls had a friend sleepover on Friday night.  It was crazy having a 5, 6, 7, and 8 year old in the same room.  Noisy. Busy. Chaotic.

And, the reason I needed to clean the rooms.

They put NOTHING away. Nothing. Nada.

Met with the girl’s mom yesterday, and told her that the counselor is recommending supervised visits only. She is less than thrilled.  I explained WHY, but she didn’t like it one bit.  I told her to call and make an appointment with the counselor to find out why.  I am tired of being the ‘bad guy’.

Got to play with ¼ Pint whilst the girls mom was here yesterday. She is cute as heck and tiny. Very tiny. She is 10 months old and still wearing 3-6 month size.  But ½ Pint was tiny as well. Still is.  Baby is healthy though and developmentally on track, maybe a little advanced.

All three girls wanted Paul McCartney’s new CD on their music players.  Made me feel good.  I’ve now corrupted yet another generation LOL.

My new Celly should come today.

Spent all last week going nuts.  We are switching BACK to ATT from Sprint. We tried Sprint out after 7 years of ATT/Cingular.

We really like the Palm Treo 750’s that we had from sprint.  And, ATT had them as well. So we ordered the same phones with the thought that the information would easily transfer right over.

Yeah.

Well, after three days of finding all the right programs and installing Outlook, which I absolutely HATE, I did get the info to import into Outlook and then Export to the new phones.  I didn’t get things like birthdays or anniversaries, but I did get my calendar and all my phone numbers.  Course DH got all the same thing cause I could only get MY info to transfer so it went onto HIS phone as well.

Now about every five minutes, his phone alarm is going off. LOL.  He called me from ¾ Pint’s house last night and said, “take your blood pressure pill.”

Yes, I have to set an alarm to remember to take my pill.  But, it works, so who cares?

All the kids and their assorted spouses are coming for Thanksgiving. Except for Nursey daughter’s AF Cop husband.  He always works Thanksgiving. Then, we are keeping ¾ Pint that night cause Nursey daughter does…

BLACK FRIDAY. 

I, on the other hand, do NOT do Black Friday.  They simply do not make enough Xanax for me to get up that early and go out in the midst of all those people.  It would not be safe at all.  At the very least, I would verbally accost someone stupid.  At the worst, there would be blood. LOL.

I will have….14 or 15 people here. My table seats six. There are no TV trays. There is the Dora the Explorer card table which comfortably seats three small children.

Baby asked if I was making the traditional dinner, to which I replied, of course, why?

She is bringing her boyfriend.  No shortcuts this year please.  She has told him that mom’s thanksgiving dinner ROCKS and he does not believe her.

This means I will start cooking tomorrow morning.  Homemade piecrust.  Homemade noodles. Homemade Grandma’s recipe bread and rolls.  Milk free pumpkin pie for ¾ Pint, and also her own little loaf of bread which she helps me make every year.

Green beans and bacon and onion.

Off to clean.  Get the house done today. Then cook tomorrow. Then clean up the day after. Then try to figure out where to put a tree this year, which is gonna be dicey as we have absolutely no where to fit a tree.