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Sunday

I do not know WHAT is goingn on w/Joey, but he's melting down over EVERYTHING!

OTOH, I don't know what's wrong w/me. I know DH is upset w/me! We made it to church, but DH was telling us to hurry up and I said WE ARE ALL READY AND WAITING ON YOU! Oh well, is the van loaded? It will be! Grrrrrrr I did buy it, load it, unload it, sort it and I guess I"ll reload it myself. I even unloaded at church (w/Mat's help) and put the stuff away. Then to Taco Bell. Where I learned that my brother wants to spend TWO nights at our house. With everyone. I"m not sure that there is enuf alcohol to get me thru that!ROTFL!!!! After feeling totally overwhelmed, I got a game plan and settled down. We'll just have 2 main meals since ppl snack all day anyway. One bfast will be bfast casserole and cinnamon rolls and the other will be french toast casserole and cinnamon rolls. The late afternoon meal will be enchiladas and chips w/salsa, white & yellow cheese sauces and hummus. The other meal will either be veggie soup or  pumpkin soup and cream of celery (homemade) soup. Either served w/cresent rolls and maybe a salad. Everyone else will have to provide snacks, drinks and whatever else they want. Now to compose an email and send it to all of them w/those plans.

I did ask Dh to go over addresses w/me so all the envelopes are addressed, return addressed and stamped. Now to get the letters printed!LOL Over 80! ANd I need 3 correct addys. The boys put up Mat's tree and sometime this week, we'll put up the big tree.

We also sorted thru the cards from last year (I cut the fronts off to use for this year). Mat's Sunday School class is doing stuff for shut ins so I'm getting rid of several there. I also send to shutins (they become postcards so it's cheaper to mail too!LOL) and those are ready to go out. And we *assembled* their gifts for this year. I dont' think we are doing a candy day so I just bought those CD/DVD gift 'boxes' and a few bags of candy. The boys write the postcards, we shove them in the box w/candy. We need to deliver 2 tonight at kid's club. I was SUPER impressed w/Joey's! He did it ALL himself and spelled most words right. He did write 'Mreey' (cuz he was talking while writing!LOL) but got Christmas right. Helping was spelled 'helpeng'. But that was it.

Ok, I need to get going.