Mommy Brain

We had a good – and busy – weekend. Friday night I went shopping for Josiah’s birthday party the next day. I know, nothing like waiting until the last minute. Saturday morning I cleaned house and baked a cake – including a run to the grocery store for a missing ingredient – and at 1 pm we had his party. It was a huge – and a little chaotic – success, with Josiah loving every single one of his gifts.

On Sunday, I watched the depressing Seahawks vs. San Francisco game. Luckily, I didn’t have too long to mope, cause my friend and I went to the movies last night and saw The Prestige. Very good movie with incredible acting. Kept us guessing right to the very end.

Friday, during our weekly play date, I took the book The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield off my shelf to show my friend. When she went home, I made a huge mistake. Instead of putting it back on the shelf, I opened it up and read the first page. Then the first chapter. Now I am completely immersed in it and want to do nothing else but read nonstop until I finish it. Yes, I’m still in the middle of Orthodoxy and Patrick: Son of Ireland. And yes, this means I will definitely not finish all the books on my Autumn Reading Challenge list. But, oh, well, life is short.

I don’t know how much I’ll be posting this week. We’re taking the whole week off of school for Thanksgiving, and I’m hoping to do a lot of reading. Plus, somewhere in there, I need to make a pie, get haircuts for me and all three boys, take Natalie to ballet, and clean the house and do laundry. Two of my three sisters are coming to town on Wednesday for the holiday, and we will be spending all of Thursday and most of Friday and Saturday at my parents house. There will be lots of great food, good conversation, and Cranium and Catch-Phrase games. I can’t wait.

Happy Thanksgiving!