T-Day Traditions

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I'm looking forward to our Thanksgiving Day traditions...well, one in particular:

• Jimbo and the manly men play tackle football. They act all studly and spit a lot. Then they go home and ice everything while they watch football for the rest of the day.
  
• I do my run for the hungry...which is just me running more than usual so I can eat more than usual later.
  
• We usually go to my sister's for dinner and I always make the homemade rolls.
• But when we don't go to my sister's, each of my kids is in charge of making one thing for dinner. Nelson is rolls. Jamie is mashed potatoes. Burke is jello. Dean is stuffing and turkey. I'm everything else.
• During dinner we go around the table and say what we are thankful for.
  
• And while Jim is doing the dishes after dinner I am the official judge of People Magazine's sexiest men. I take my job seriously. Sometimes they get them in the wrong order.

Can you guess which tradition I'm really looking forward to? I think it's gonna be a good year! Have a happy, safe Thanksgiving everyone!

Sticky, muddy, crazy cousins

No school today, so we headed to Apple Hill with the cousins. They're always crazy when they're together, but in a good my-cousins-are-freaking-awesome way. And what can be better than eating apple donuts and caramel apples, and running around getting covered in mud and fish guts? Oh, I know...being the moms sitting at the picnic table chittin' the chat and knowing everyone is gonna sleep well that night!

This week in sports

This is not what parents are hoping to find on the end of the year highlights cd, but these are the shots I love. One year I swear I'm only gonna include stuff like this.

Tagged for 6 quirks

Let's see...6 quirks...nothing too exciting...

1. I hate mustard. I never touch the stuff EXCEPT on corndogs...and I can't eat a microwaved corndog. It has to come out of the oven, or from Hot Dog on a Stick, or even better from a creepy carnie stand. Similarly, I hate avocados, but I love guacamole.

2. If I don't touch all the "bases" (mostly manhole covers, and crosswalk lines) during my morning run, then the run doesn't count.

3. I like wearing an apron when I cook cuz I think it makes me look more legit.

4. My feet are always cold, but I wear flip flops anyway because I'm a toe freak. Which drives the Loveking crazy because I always squeeze my ice cube feet under his legs in bed. But one of Jimbo's quirks is that he is a human heater, so I think that one works out.

5. Eating french fries and a diet coke gets rid of my headaches.

6. Since I was a kid I have checked my bedroom walls every night for spiders before I go to sleep. I'm not really afraid of them, but I just like to make sure there are no creepy crawlies around while I'm sleeping. But there is a spider, that we named Charlotte, in one of the corners of our loft that I don't let anyone kill because she is our fly/mosquito killer.

I'm a big quirk watcher! Trying to think of my own was hard, but I can name other people's easily. I love my friend's and family's quirks!

Voter kick-backs

Man, I'm bummed our Krispy Kreme closed down. Krispy Kreme is giving away free donuts today to voters...you don't even technically have to vote...you just have to mention the promotion and viola...free star-shaped donut with red, white, and blue sprinkles! I even thought it was worth driving a ways for that mouthful of sugary bliss, so I got online in search of the closest KK but it is 60 miles away! Not worth it! So if there is a KK by you stop in and have one for me!! Oh, and don't forget to vote...duh.