Thanksgiving

Well as another Thanksgiving has come to pass, all I can say is I am glad it is over. It has become a family tradition to have dinner with another family whose spouse is also deployed. So this years lucky winner was my friend Bree and her five kids so we packed nine kids under nine into our tiny town house made turkey and all the sides. The kids ran around like crazy and it was a experience. So after stuffing the kids full of food and having tons of things to clean up (mostly toys,games and books) we packed the kids in the car and headed down to the board walk to see all the Christmas lights. Then headed off to the base chapel for church service. We decided that we would brave the kids and do a sleep over. The plan was to leave the kids with a sitter and hit the early morning sales. Instead we shopped for the living room on our lap tops and allowed the kids to watch movies for the morning. We actually made it out of the house for lunch we took our large group to the mall and ate at the food court. After I can home and had the joys of cleaning up from the joys of nine kids sleeping on the living room floor.