Teaholic not quite anonymous

Hello, hello! Just wanted to check in and fill you in on the week's events. On Tuesday Matt's parents came down and Maddy loved every single second. She ran out to give grandma and grandpa a big hug as soon as their truck pulled up. We all hung out a lot that night and it was a nice time. Maddy had a blast. An interesting occurance happened. Maddy has nicknamed Matt's parents! Matt's mom is now Grammie and Matt's dad is Pa-pa/Paw-paw. It's really neat to see her come up with her own words for them.

Tuesday morning we had class for Maddy. I was quite disappointed by it, actually. We didn't do anything organized so it was basically a large playgroup. I know Maddy loved to get out of the house but I'm not paying for a playgroup. On the opposite side of the coin, I made two more pots on Tuesday and tooled 11. So I should have almost 20 to bring home in the long run. So I've made good use of that time. Next week's class is a holiday party along with a ton of glazing given my pots get bisque fired.

Wednesday was a lot of prepping for Thanksgiving. We made the sweet potato casserole, pies and flan. My mom came in on an afternoon flight and we all went the night hanging out. Maddy and I took a walk over to the park with grandma to get her out of the house while Daddy cleaned up that morning. We finished up on Maddy's gifts and I wrote out some thank you notes from her party on Monday.

Thursday was Thanksgiving! The meal went great and I'm very surprised at how well Maddy sat at the table. I was able to finish my whole meal without much fuss. Now, she didn't eat much, but she did a nice job. Our menu consisted of turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potato casserole, cranberry, corn and creamed spinach. We had pumpkin pie and pumpkin flan for dessert.

Friday was Maddy's birthday and she had a great day. Her celebration didn't start off until after her nap. But grandma and grandpa J brought three additional mylar balloons by in the morning and she just LOVED playing with those. During her nap, Matt and I ran out to the bakery and picked up her cake. In the afternoon we first opened presents and then had cake. The cake was just delicious and so cute! She was WIRED by the time everything was said and done so Matt and his dad took Maddy out to Chuck-e-cheese and Arby's for dinner (her favorite) to wear off some energy while us ladies stayed home to sort out Maddy's toys. I sent home two large bins of toys with Matt's folks for them to store for us! Fortunately, she went to bed without issue.

Today was pretty uneventful. I prepped some beef stew this morning for the crockpot so the grandparents would have something to eat for lunch. I spent part of this morning sorting through some makeup and organizing it. It may sound like I have a lot, and well, it's true, I do! But I'm not using it all so I wanted to go through it. Matt and I went out for a really nice lunch at Redrock Canyon Grill when Maddy went down for a nap. We shared a spinach and artichoke dip and a shrimp cargot for an appetizer. I had the Ahi Salad and Matt had the steak salad and then we had the chocolate something (no really, that is the name of it) for dessert. I was STUFFED when we got home. But it was such a nice time out. We originally stopped at a Thai place we like but there was a little kid fussing a ton in there and well, we were out sans kids so I did not want to hear them fussing at me! Tonight I also finished my Christmas card sans her 2 year old pictures which we're going for on Monday! So I'm pretty close to being done!

Ok, well, I'm tired and my eyes are blurry. I need to take out my contacts. I hope everyone is well!