We have a few things com­ing up that the boys are look­ing for­ward to.  We have a fam­ily trip, Thanks­giv­ing, vis­its from grand­par­ents, and Christ­mas among other things.  Every day, Asa asks me, “How many days untilx, y, or z?”  As time passes, and as I answer his ques­tions every day, I real­ize how fast time is passing.

It seems like we were just at the park play­ing in the 80 degree sun­shine.  All sum­mer, I spent time look­ing for­ward to two cousins’ wed­dings.  Those things came, were great, and passed.  Now, it’s nearly Thanks­giv­ing and nearly Christ­mas.  Heck, it’s nearly 2012!

On a flight I took this fall, I talked with a woman who was sit­ting next to me.  She told me that in her fam­ily, her rel­a­tives often live into their 90’s.  She told me she had always assumed that at some point when peo­ple got older, their days slowed down and their time moved slower and slower.  She was sur­prised to find out from her 80 and 90 year old rel­a­tives that they felt it was just the oppo­site.  Their lives moved faster and faster, and sud­denly they were 90.

Luck­ily, I won’t wake up and be 90 soon, but some­how it seems like some­one has pushed the fast for­ward but­ton on my life.  So, Happy Thanks­giv­ing, Happy Hol­i­days, Merry Christ­mas, and Happy New Year!  The rest of this year may fly by, so I don’t want to miss my oppor­tu­nity to say all those things.  :-)

Post­ing every day is hard!  When I com­mit­ted to doing NaBloPoMo, I fig­ured it wouldn’t be too bad.  I fig­ured I would write a lit­tle blurb each day, and voila, I’d know where my blog was going to go.  Unfor­tu­nately, that’s not hap­pen­ing for me yet.

I know that I could post about my kids and my fam­ily every day.  The dif­fi­culty with that is that as Kael and Asa get older, I feel more pro­tec­tive of their pri­vacy.  Sto­ries that were cute lit­tle sto­ries when they were younger now have the power to embar­rass them.  I don’t want that.

My pre­vi­ous blog was a (mostly) breast­feed­ing blog.  It was nice to know I had a gen­eral topic around which I could orga­nize my ideas and posts.  Also, if I was feel­ing a lit­tle low on ideas or per­sonal con­nec­tions, I could always con­nect my post to a cur­rent event or news story related to breast­feed­ing.  I don’t feel like I have that right now.

I have some themes run­ning through my life right now.  Maybe if I can get my thoughts orga­nized enough I can have a reg­u­lar post or two about those things.  Until then, expect a stream of con­scious­ness and pic­tures of the boys.  :)

Jason and the boys (Poor Baby J has an eye infec­tion in this picture!)

He is.  He’s a great hus­band.  He’s a won­der­ful dad.  He’s patient.  He’s a hard worker.  Man, do I love that guy.

Last night, we were talk­ing about some­thing, and Jason said, “If you had to choose, would you do it again?  Get mar­ried so young, I mean.”  We were 22 and 23 when we got mar­ried.  At the time, I remem­ber think­ing that wasn’t that young at all.  Now, look­ing back…  :)

I thought about our mar­riage and the past 9 1/2 years together.  I thought about our trips together, our moves, our kids.  I really couldn’t think of any rea­son I would do things any differently.

Some things that make him are awe­some are:

• his cof­fee mak­ing ability
• the way he loves our children
• the way he takes care of me
• how he lets me sleep in on the week­ends even though he’s tired, too
• how he cleans up the kitchen
• how he works so hard at his job
• and a mil­lion more things

Jason and I sat down today to start think­ing about what we want to make for our Thanks­giv­ing din­ner.  I’ve been telling my dad for a cou­ple weeks that we are hav­ing a tofurky (tofu turkey) as our main dish.  I’m not sure he believes me which is fine, I sup­pose.  We’re not hav­ing a tofurky.

I fig­ured it is get­ting close to the time when we actu­ally have to start decid­ing what we are going to have though.  So far, I think we have enough food for at least 15 peo­ple.  There will be 4 adults and 3 kids at our meal.  :)  When we were mak­ing our list of foods to have for our meal, Kael made it very clear that he would really like some corn.  It turns out he wanted corn on the cob which is tough to come by this time of year, but he says frozen corn will be alright.  Jason wants the tra­di­tional parts of the meal.  He is in charge of the turkey and gravy.  For some rea­son, I’m fix­ated on hav­ing sweet pota­toes, but I do not want the ones that have marsh­mal­lows on the top.  We’ll also be hav­ing cran­berry sauce and cran­berry lemon­ade.  Now, we just need to fig­ure out how to make sure every­thing gets cooked at the right tem­per­a­ture for the right time and is ready all at once.

Yum!

The other day I wrote about want­ing to read more.  Then, yes­ter­day I was think­ing about what I do on Pin­ter­est (beyond win­dow shop­ping for clothes and nail pol­ishes for hours).  I real­ized that Pin­ter­est would prob­a­bly be a great resource for knit­ting projects and pat­terns.  So, I looked through some of the pat­terns for knit­ting and cro­chet­ing.  After I looked for a while, I had a nice list of all the projects I wanted to start.  I real­ized that I had every­thing I needed.  I have the nee­dles, the yarn, the pat­terns.  All I need is more time.  Unfor­tu­nately, at this point, that may not be in the cards for a few more years.  Oh, but it’s fun to look.

I knit­ted this scarf for my sister-in-law for Christ­mas two years ago.