Cold weather, a time change & and a day off...

It's November 4th already. My favorite holiday is in three weeks. I'm getting the familiar must-put-up-Christmas-tree itch. Brace yourselves for holiday madness kids. I'm so, so ready for it. We started a Scooter countdown. 25 days until his arrival. I'm hoping my Grandma is proud of the shenanigan's we created with him. Our other major countdown says 44 days until my family is all back in NY. So very ready for that!!

Anyway, the chill of November has arrived in Upstate NY. We broke out the winter coats, hat & mittens this morning for the trek to the bus stop. I hate waiting for this bus to arrive with my kiddo this time of year. I dread going out for the bus but, the school district will not allow him to walk home alone even though I can see him from our front yard. Bummer. That time will come soon enough & I'm not ready for it. That will mean another 5 years of waiting for a bus to arrive & depart. The small child in my house will start kindergarten and that freaks me out. They grow too quickly.

The time change back an hour is totally messing with all of us this year. Even gaining an hour of sleep, it still feels like we haven't gotten enough. Normally falling back is a glorious event. Not this year. It's throwing off the mini girl horribly. Plus side to that, she's taking naps again and it isn't throwing off her bed time. HOORAY!

Tomorrow is another day off of school. Gav is going to help me with the littles "school". We do projects every day, practice colors, counting, ABC'S, do work sheets and all sorts of fun stuff. He's looking forward to being a "teacher" tomorrow and I'm loving the fact that there will be an extra set of hands. I'll even make an extra project for him to do. It'll be a fun day. Play-doh, baking cookies, board games, movies, hot cocoa. I love days off as much as he does.

I'll post some pictures of our wee shenanigan's. Happy Monday world!