Holiday's

Holidays are always so much work. That's not saying that I don't love them, but think about it for a minute. Halloween, we spend the money on the kids costumes, make up and accessories. All of that so they can go out for one night and get candy to hype them up till the end of the year. I doubt this holiday is really necessary, but the kids love it. So I guess Halloween is just for the fun of dressing up to get candy. Though it still costs money. Then comes Thanksgiving we go out and fight the crowds to buy the things we need to make the yummy traditional dishes for a single day of eating so much food we feel like exploding. The Moses family was lucky this year. We got two Thanksgivings. One at my parents house the Sunday before we left after my sisters birthday party, and one yesterday that we worked to prepare. The good thing about Sunday's is we it was delicious and we didn't have to do a lot of work to get it prepared. Yesterdays was an accumulation of 2 days worth of baking and cooking. All this prep so we could sit down for 20 minutes and gorge ourselves to the point of not moving, and then spend over an hour trying to put everything away. Though one good thing comes of all this cooking and baking, all the leftovers. I won't have to cook now for at least 3 or 4 days, and after that there is frozen beef stew from Wednesday that I made. Like always, after Thanksgiving comes Christmas, the most overly commercialize holiday yet. People spend so much money buying gifts for people. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about the giving. I'm just not feeling the buying this year, and like always money is tight. I'll be happy when January comes around. Then it's back to buying for birthdays, and trying to find storage for all the stuff the kids got for Christmas. Though this year for my family is going to be special, we will be spending Christmas with my family and not at home. We will be traveling till almost New Years, and then we will be home to do our Christmas.

This time of year it's all about spending. Today is Black Friday, the biggest retail shopping day of the year. I still have stuff to buy, but you couldn't pay me enough to go out and battle the crowds today. As a matter of fact, I'm still in my jammies and I didn't get up until almost 10am, it was glorious.

It's quiet here, except for the sound of Halo(Tyler is playing). Jon is working a little bit. Julie went to Grandpa Moses's for the weekend. Kaylee is napping, and I'm really just sitting here. I wouldn't have it any other way today. After two days of cooking and baking, doing nothing sounds fantastic.