Deep breath.......Thanksgiving was not very thankful in our house.....a lot of complaining and frustration and expectations not met (ie mom should make all the food for a full Thanksgiving meal without any help from the kids). But we made it through and went on with life. The next day was better, as we did a hot chocolate bar and watched It's a Wonderful Life, at least most of us watched it. The kids had never seen it before and one got bored and left. It's really hard to find anything that everyone is willing to do at this point, but we try. 

Nathan's parents gave us this slushie maker for Christmas.....we've used it a couple times already, that is something everyone has enjoyed. 

We have finished wrapping all our fudge. I didn't take a picture of all the ingredients this year, as I have done in years past. I also fix fudge making in in between things like school, small group at our house, a women's lunch at church on Saturday and of course church on Sunday. It's been kind of crazy around here. 

We also went out last night to celebrate Hannah passing her classes and finishing the semester. It snowed last night as well and was snowing as we drove to the restaurant. We've been told they don't plow here and we experienced that first hand yesterday and into this morning when I took the kids to theater and the roads still had snow on them. The sun did come out this morning and by the drive back the roads were clear. But you definitely need to know how to drive in snow. 

That's the short version of the past couple weeks. The chaos continues in the next few weeks, and most of it has nothing to do with Christmas....it's just normal life things....or not so normal like getting wisdom teeth removed, but it needs to be done at some point right?