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I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving.  I'm soooooooo not ready.

My vision consists of:

a clean house,

dishwasher purchased and installed,

rested and happy company,

delicious brined/dried/roasted natural turkey,

at least 6 varieties of homemade pies,

Christmas house lights up,

Christmas gifts purchased (wrapped would be a bonus),

and myself showered, dressed, and relaxed.

My logical mind tells me it will be more like:

a vacuumed house,

dishwasher found, but not yet purchased and installed,

company arriving late Wednesday, hopefully not detained due to freeway closures and snow,

a frozen turkey, defrosting in the laundry room sink because I didn't get it in the fridge soon enough

(or maybe it's just that my refrigerator, even on the warmest setting, still freezes stuff),

2 varieties of pies (probably cream) made with refrigerated pie crust

(if I'm lucky I'll get the requested pumpkin roll made),

some house lights up (if Taylor is willing to spend some of his weekend doing it), but possibly none,

a desire to have the Christmas gifts purchased, and a determination to get it done asap,

and myself hot, sweaty, and hoping that dinner lasts longer than 20 minutes, because then it's clean-up time, and most likely we will be hand-washing the dishes.

First on the list of tasks today:  laundry.

Here's what Shilo's hamper looked like this morning (after I had already started sorting and had taken out at least a half dozen items already).  That girl packs it in.

Then work (those three little hours are getting me so behind), grocery shopping, and carpooling.  My fingers are crossed that there's a date night in there somewhere too.

What I'm truly thankful for today:

a refrigerator

a washer and dryer

a car

running water

warm(er) weather (makes recess so much nicer)

Bill's job

a found vehicle for Tay

credit unions

computers

friends who read my posts

friends who blog too

awesome kids

awesomer husband