11/27 in --

Thanksgiving break is at an end, and life as normal is resumed. I’m not too thrilled about it, really. Although I only have three work weeks left before my next break (which is about a month long, thankfully), and then a few months left of my degree and work, and then baby will arrive. I’m sure it will go by all too quickly.

I had a fantastic week, and I loved it. The kids were home with me all day, everyday. We did activities, I kept the house looking great, and I was just generally 1000% less stressed. I loved being home with them and focusing on the household and family. I’m re-thinking what I want to do after I graduate. My husband noticed an improvement in my mood and general well-being.

We’ve been reading a book on relationship improvement before baby called And Baby Makes Three. It’s been really helpful, and it has been reinforcing the things that we’ve already been working on. We try to do one of the activities every other day, but I imagine this week it won’t be as often since I’m back to work and won’t have as much time at the end of the day, so I’m going to focus on once a week.

I keep thinking about all the food I ate on Thanksgiving and how good it was and how I wish I could eat it again!

We traded in my car and got a minivan! It’s just a basic thing, but now we can take everyone everywhere without having to take two cars. Huzzah! And we have room for Maeve, of course.

I got 90% of the Christmas shopping done, and our house is decorated, and the tree is up. You can definitely tell the kids decorated the tree, because all of the ornaments are concentrated near the bottom of the tree.

I was just so content this week and now I feel stressed again. Ugh. Hopefully these next few weeks go by quickly.