December 1

So how was your Thanksgiving holiday?  I hope it was just the little break you needed.  Our’s was good and fun and full.  We got in a lot of family time together and I actually got a lot of work done as well.  We ate lots of yummy food.  I put disclaimer notes on my chess pies.  One did not get touched at all…disclaimer note for the win.  The other had a few tiny pity slices taken out of it, but I took that one back home with me and shamefully ate the rest of the entire pie.  See, I just love chess pie…even when it has a weird texture and has been cooked for 5 bajillion minutes and still isn’t completely solid…I have zero shame people…the whole pie…gone…poof…like magic…except in my stomach…and I’m wearing it proudly around my muffin top now.  Sigh.

I also may have worn the exact same pair of slouchy gray sweatpants for 3 days in a row.  To stores.  And sometimes with my house shoes which I turned into out-of-the-house-house-shoes.  I decided after 3 days of wear and ummmm, only one shower in that mix that the pants needed washing…so I could wear them again today.  I may have a problem.

We watched lots of football.  The boys are glued.  Especially Amon.  This picture makes me want to snatch him up and kiss that cute little profile and those dangling feet.

We worked puzzles and played games.  We like the big 500+ piece puzzles for holidays…the ones that take all day to complete.  And Hudson, Solomon and I declared last minute Pictionary victory over Harper and Josh Kelley.  It was intense.  Josh even started hiding his drawings because I may have had wandering eyes sometimes when trying to figure out drawings like ‘cement mixer’.

Hudson had a severe asthma attack and ended his Thanksgiving night like this.

He totally crashed…mid breathing treatment.  He plays hard and cats are his arch nemesis.

I got in lots of work over the holiday.  Love crossing orders off my list and getting things packaged up ready to hit the mail.

And we also got our Kindness Advent up and ready to go.  This is something we started in 2011 after Mom died.  I really wanted something to keep us focussed on others during a really hard time for our family and this was it.  You can read about 2011 HERE, 2012 HERE and 2013 HERE.  It’s something we love more and more each year.

I will try and post each day about what we are doing and about what the following day’s event will be.  For our full month’s list GO HERE.  This is seriously one of my most favorite times of the year for this very simple reason.  Today we are starting with filling gum/trinket machines with quarters.  The Kelley kids LOVE this one.  So simple.  So fun.

Tomorrow we will be leaving bookmarks in books at the library.

I hope you’ll join in on the fun with us.  Do one every day or every week.  Skip around.  Make up your own.  You can’t mess it up…kindness is kindness and it totally matters.

Hope you enjoyed your holiday time.  Now bring on December.  I have a feeling it’s going to be good!

Happy Monday.