-t, I'm glad that you were able to do this, and I hope that you are doing okay. Hugs to you.

What Vortex said.

flea is me when it comes to Christmas shopping on Thinkgeek.

I was wondering what prompted an unusual bajillion posts and NILLY! MANY MANY toenibbles in your future! That's wonderful news!

-t, hope you are ok.

I'll report back on lisah's final choice of vows, since she'll probably be busy right after!

I am home. Of course, that was with a stop at the pool on the way home, as if that shocks anyone. 50 laps was a bit harder than a week ago, but that's just as likely the headcold. I can't really dive deep without OWHEADVICE (normally would do 46+6, but couldn't do the 2 that involve swimming half the pool on the bottom.)

I hope Grace's cold is resolving as quickly (she doesn't try diving under 5 ft of water, so that shouldn't be an issue.) May be taking a sick day to speed the recovery time tomorrow.

I hope Noah recovered from his meltyface quickly from when they dropped me off. I know it is just 3.5 disliking change, but I have to admit to sympathetic tearing up when he did that. Especially given how much he talked up "sharing" his room with me and needing reassurance I wasn't leaving TG night. Yes, the age, but indulge me. He LIKED me, right??

Cats are happy to see me, and healthy as ever and all is in order.

My bet on what they were doing with the beets in the red velvet cake was using beet juice as natural red food coloring. I don't know how you get the juice from the beets, but I've seen several recipes that use it as a coloring, so I assume it doesn't make everything taste like beets.

Oh, poor Noah-noodle! Did he think that everyone was going to go away on Turkey Day? Not sara!

I hope Noah recovered from his meltyface quickly from when they dropped me off. I know it is just 3.5 disliking change, but I have to admit to sympathetic tearing up when he did that. Especially given how much he talked up "sharing" his room with me and needing reassurance I wasn't leaving TG night

Ooof. I'd have had trouble leaving.

Me too.

Also, Ack. My cleaning person just emailed me to ask if she could come tomorrow instead of Wednesday this week. This wouldn't be as much of a problem, or a problem at all, really, except for the part where I spent the last 5 days not doing dishes, or putting away laundry, or moving much beyond my sofa and recliner.

At least it's a contained mess.

Noah has this dimple high on his right cheek, and when he's emotional it's all dimply and...it's just too much.

I'm going to calmly state my HORRIBLE JEALOUSY of people who had Noah and Grace time at Thanksgiving. Hmph.

Amy, next year, YOU could come and have Noah and Grace time.

Grace's cold is somewhat better, but not cleared yet. She's feeling better ish.

And all of my shit of feeling like a slovenly mom who let her toddler getaway with eating sticky toffee bread pudding and not brush his teeth immediately after and that's why he has 3 cavities? According to today's dentist not so much.

He has enamel hypoplasia that resulted from his extreme prematurity! So it's the fault of my shittiness-at-being-successfully-pregnant instead of my shitty-at-brushing-ness!