Good morning! While October is a lot about Halloween (I love all the spooky, creepy stuff!), today my family is celebrating Thanksgiving. And Christmas. My parents are what we in Michigan call 'snowbirds' - they head south for winter. Since they do it in a class A RV, they prefer to leave before November. Last year, with their grandkids' activities, they didn't make it out til a week or two into November, but this year, they'll likely leave some time next week. So, yesterday was spent buying gifts for my three nieces and one of my nephews, and my parents. We'll be meeting up at my brother's house, and have a turkey dinner. I'm bringing broccoli slaw, green bean casserole, rolls, and a chocolate and a pumpkin pie. So once I get this post up and visit a few blogs, I'll be offline to make breakfast for my family (biscuits and gravy), head to the store for one more pie plate, then finish baking the rolls (our son saved the day by remembering to set them up to rise overnight), making the chocolate dream pie filling (crust done last night), make the pumpkin pie, and make the green bean casserole (my first time trying it with canned green beans, since they were out of frozen yesterday..).
But first, I'm joining in with Deb at Readerbuzz for Sunday Salon, and Kimberly at Caffeinated Reviewer for Sunday Post. You should join us!
What I'm reading this week:
I'm currently reading March of Crime by Jess Lourey on my kindle (Mira James and Mrs. Berns are definitely one of my favorite detective duos, and all of the murder by month books are so entertaining!). My current print book is The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix. My son is actually reading this now too, since his English classroom has a copy, and the author graduated from the same high school my kids did/will. I need to stay on task, because I'm expecting two more print books waiting for reviews...
Three Good Things:
- Through all our running around yesterday, my son and I got to drive by our town's No Kings rally, and it was great to see so much of our community coming together. Unfortunately, comments from a friend who attended said that the one here was much meaner than ones she's attended in neighboring communities. There were middle-finger salutes, trucks doing burnouts, and at least one diesel truck that attempted to bury all the protestors in a diesel cloud. Ew. Our community is notoriously conservative, which makes it hard to hang out some places with the rudeness, but it made my heart happy to see all the turn out, and see lots of posts afterward of rallies all over the world.
- The holidays of course! I'm excited to see the kids open what I got them. Life's been a bit much lately, but I was able to pick out a book and a LEGO set for each kid, and a book for each of my parents along with a jigsaw puzzle. Hope they all like them!
- I finished the LEGO Haunted House this weekend! I think I'll put it up with my home decorations this week, and bring it in to work to cheer me up during Halloween week. Between builds now, sort of, til I make room for a table in my home office to start the Sanderson Sisters' house.
Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:
- Well, you already saw today's list - the food I'm bringing and presents wrapped for this afternoon!
- I've got my 2026 paper planner already, and I want to get birthdays and such written in there. Oh, and the stuff for the rest of the school year that I already know - band concerns and trips for his 8th grade year.
- I want to start another holiday wish list posting series. For a few years, I would put up 12 days of Christmas with my own holiday wish list, just for fun, obvs. Last year found me just too overwhelmed, so I skipped it. But it was fun before, so I want to try to do it again.
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