It was a busy week for us, ending on a "last day of being 7" for the young man. Both kids had school until Wednesday this week and the only activity that didn't happen was Chess club on Monday. I'm sure Trevor would have wanted it to happen, but at least we were able to keep mostly busy until Thanksgiving. The kids even had swimming lessons on Wednesday, and I'm sure because most people left for the weekend, she had a private lesson. Trevor had a few less kids in his class as well.
Thanksgiving Thursday went off without a hitch...I think. I did my usual turkey, stuffing, rolls, green been dish. The kids were kind enough to help with the cleaning the night before and day of. We had a houseful of 15 people, still missing a few folks but had a good time.
This year Black Friday started Thanksgiving evening. I picked up a good friend at 10pm and we didn't get back home until about 3:30am. Strangely enough, I didn't pick up anything more than some stocking stuffers for Christmas, mostly some REALLY good deals on home stuff and some snowpants for Trevor since his have gone missing. We went from Toys R Us to Herbergers to Kohls to Target. Kohls was a complete disaster and the one store I could have done without. Herbergers was the one I came out of thinking that I got a really good deal and it was very well run. It was a very different night than in the past because of how early the stores were open. I do think I like it better this way because I could come home and sleep for a little while before the kids woke up. It did take me most of the day to recover from everything that had happened that day.
So the rest of the day was pretty low key...finishing up the cleaning...laundry....just relaxing....then Trevor and Russ were going to go to the Wild game, but Trevor decided he didn't want to go. So Russ took Gwen instead. I thought Trevor was going to get upset, but he didn't. He genuinely didn't want to go. So he and I had a little time to ourselves. I decided I wanted to have a little date night with him, and we went to California Pizza Kitchen. He said he was going to be embarrassed only with one other person, but when we got there, and he saw that it wasn't like a table for 10 and only the two of us, he was good. I had a very peaceful and pleasant conversation with him. Because we were at a mall, I also asked him to come and get his Christmas sweater with me because I knew they were still having good sales. That spawned some questions about if I like to shop or not. I know I have said it before, but I really need to do that more often. The night ended with us chatting right before he went to bed about what a good time we both had that night. And I also know that Gwen had a great time too.
And now it is Saturday. We spent the morning seeing the new Muppet movie, and I was VERY VERY happy. I'm glad I had the kids watch the Muppet Show because a lot of it references that as well as a bunch of the Muppet movies. The kids are familiar with The Muppets Take Manhattan but none of the other ones. And I know they probably didn't appreciate the 80's music as I did, but WOW....I have a big appreciation for Jason Segel. I watched him on SNL and learned he co-wrote the story and if that guy doesn't have a perfect understanding of the Muppets I don't know who does. I hope they do well with the movie!
And now we begin the preparations for the kid to turn 8. I think I'm ahead of the game and feeling pretty good about being ready for tomorrow. More to come tomorrow on that event.
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