Kira! That is wonderful news for everyone involved. Good for Mom I say!

JJ

We have sort of settled the holiday dilemna.
I do T-giving nd all are invited. I think I will invite a few friends this year to spice it up and my sister always has to run it on her agenda since they will be going to the movies or someplace else so we have to hurry and have desert. With non family there, she can just leave when she wants and we will leisurely eat our way through the day and night.

Christmas is at my sisters. She remarried 2 or 3 years ago and now has 5 kids instead of 3. We only buy for the kids but 5 kids add up on the holidays and birthdays.

Easter is at my brothers' house. We do too much at easter with baskets etc. Fortunately this year, only Nathan and his one cousin who is 8 got baskets.

So7 kids on my side.

We try to get together sometime over the holiday at my husband's brothers to see nephews, their families and kids. Total of 4 kids here. We do very little here - only if we see them because divorce has reared its ugly head and we are related to the father side of the divorces and the mothers are in control mostly.

I think this year, we will try to get his family to our house but doubt the little kids can come because Mom's won't let them travel out of state.

Also, I work at a residential school and as an administrator, to ask off is an insult to our Director. That is what I was told. So to have time off to enjoy family and take care of all the trappings, is very difficult with my job. But I would love to have the week off to just be with family and friends.

It is all complicated but it is a time when family and friends come to the forefront of our lives. We need to relish that.

Lynn