We're no longer house hunting which has been wonderful. We still enjoy looking at pictures online and will go to open houses if any interest us, but no more driving 3 kids and a tired mommy all over the county in the evening. :) We are also no longer wasting our poor realtor's time. We might start looking in January but for now, plan to just enjoy the holidays and our family- especially the baby days with Esther. She's growing too fast!

We ordered our first home-school curriculum last night! I'm very excited that we finally did it and will be getting it probably sometime next week. I think we'd usually get it sooner but with Thanksgiving i'm sure it won't come by weeks end. We went with a Sonlight program which is pretty expensive but since it's literature based it's almost all books that will be part of our library. I'll also be able to use it with both girls after Tyler is done and can take more than one year to go through it. That makes it a great value assuming we love it as much as I think we will. Even if we hate it, we end up with books we can read to the kids and the kids can read rather than a bunch of software or textbooks and workbooks we'll never use. I doubt we'll do much with it before the new year but I'm excited to have something all done for me where all i have to do is follow the instructor guide. I love making up my own things, but it can be tedious and i lose motivation at times.

Saturday Lori got to come to meet Esther! It was so nice that she was able and had time to drive out here to see us. We miss you Lori! She brought Christmas gifts for the kdis and so they are thrilled to have alerady started Christmas! I did not do a very good job of making a big deal out of Thanksgiving this year so in their minds we are straight into Christams. Since we're having Christams with my side of the family on Friday, it's hard to make the distinction so i've just let it go this year. We do talk a lot about being thankful but we didn't get into the pilgrims at all this year. :( Maybe tomorrow if i'm super motivated. :)

Esther is still doing well! She is one month today! I can't believe how the time has gone. She is much improved in her eating and she's on a good routine throughout the day. If I could get myself up regularly to feed her at the same time each morning it would be even better. :) The other two kids love her to bits and always want to look at her and kiss her. They are great about playing with each other or by themselves when I have housework to do or need to nurse the baby. I'm thankful to have the extra space of the basement for them to play in for the days we just can't make it outside to run around.

This week we're looking forward to THanksgiving and Christmas with family and I think Gary even gets Monday off so we might get a relaxing, restful family weekend- after we decorate for Christmas of course! We're all fighting illness and colds but so far none of us have gotten sick (knock on wood). I'm very thankful for antibacterial gel, vitamins and lysol in addition to sweatshirts and slippers!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!