We had a lovely Thanksgiving. I roasted a turkey for the very first time, and it turned out well. I also made homemade stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green beans, homemade rolls, and mulled wine. Collin's grandparents, sister-in-law, and niece came over, and after stuffing ourselves we lit the firepit and stayed outside visiting while the kids played. (Thank goodness I had help with the clean-up, because I was wiped out! I went to bed around 8pm.)
I do not, as a rule, participate in the Black Friday madness. No money savings is worth being trampled. I woke up at 5am this morning and couldn't sleep, though, so I started aimlessly surfing the Internet and stumbled across a 7-ft. pre-lit Christmas tree at Joann.com for $39.99 (originally $129.99)! As the top tier of our current (secondhand) Christmas tree didn't work last year, this sale was appealing, so I went so far as to wake up Collin to ask his opinion. He was grumpy but after a long discussion he gave me the the green light to buy it, and I did! I even had a coupon for free shipping. Yay for a working Christmas tree!
I also dropped by Half-Price books the other day and got some great bargains:
A dozen Star Trek: Voyager books for $5!
A hardcover box set of the Lord of the Rings trilogy for $30!
Wednesday's drive home was my last time commuting until my maternity leave is over (probably sometime in February-ish). Hooray! That drive was getting tough.
As has become our Black Friday tradition, we went to see a movie this afternoon (we saw Tangled last year), and it was fantastic:
The kids loved it too! Violet was dancing along with the opening number; it was so adorable.
In pregnancy news, I'm full-term today. As much as I'd hoped for a December baby, s/he may come sooner than anticipated. I think I lost some of my mucous plug this morning, and I've started timing contractions just in case. It could be prodromal labor (I had a ton of it with Violet), but we'll have to see what happens. I'm going to take a warm bath with Epsom salts shortly and see if that makes the contractions fizzle. On the up side, at least it's kicked my butt into getting my hospital bag packed and all my newborn-sized baby clothes washed.
Ready for the first Sunday of Advent and the new Roman Missal? I am! I downloaded the "iMassExplained" iPhone app from the Daughters of St. Paul and I'm looking forward to using the new translation for the first time this weekend.
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Yay for the new tree!! And yay for full term!!! And yay for the books! And yay for The Muppet Movie!!
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I have been eyeing a very similar LOTR set on Amazon... but for about 20 bucks more! You lucky duck!
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I have that same set of LOTR books (and I've been meaning to reread them, thanks for the reminder!). My due date is on Sunday but I haven't even had a hint of labor...but I guess that is fairly normal for the first pregnancy. I think I definitely will still be pregnant come Dec. 1.
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