Post Holiday Blues!

I can't believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone. It's now Sunday morning and all is quiet once again. I started coming down with a cold on Thanksgiving Evening and am hoping that it will be a quick recovery. I slept all afternoon yesterday after our trip to the airport with Tate and Julie and Ada and then went to bed early so hopefully I can just baby myself back to health.
It was really fun to have everyone here for Thanksgiving. I spent the morning cooking and preparing the feast and then managed to clog our garbage disposal just before everyone arrived. That was quite a stressful event. We managed to get dinner back on track but it was a little harried and stressful. After dinner Tate tried something that his plumber had done for their clogged drain and voila, it worked! Crisis averted! I had no idea how we would wash dishes, etc. What a relief. Mcgiver to the rescue!
After dinner we just hung out and talked. It was so nice to have everyone here. Colleen is getting very large and is due in about 6 weeks! Erin and Josh brought there newest bundle of joy, Nola, and she is quite the bundle of energy. She's bigger than Chico now so he was a less tempted to try to dominate her his visit. Tate and Julie loved the house and it was fun to show them everything we had done since moving in. Ada was a lot of fun and loved having her bed set up in the den behind the desk. I think she felt safe and cozy. She is so smart and was a lot of fun. She loved the alphaphet mat we got her and I think she'll have a lot of fun with it.
It was pretty emotional bringiing Tate and julie to the airport yesterday. Ada was tired and cranky and woke up crying after fallling asleep in the car. Tate got all stressed out and it was prety ugly saying good-bye. I left them feeling really sad and can only hope and pray that that it becomes easier for Tate to deal with stressful situations like that. It really stresses him out when Ada cries, but guess what; kids cry and get frustrated just like us. And they learn how to handle it by how we handle it. I remember having a poster stating that Kids Learn What They Live and thinking how true it is. They imitate us and want to be like us. Hopefully he'll work on staying calmer and learning to relax a little. Kids are very frustrating and they certainly know how to push our buttons, we just have to learn to be ready for that and to not just react. I know that Tate and Julie want only the best for Ada, and will work on that. She's in the terrible two's and is no exception to other two year olds. They know just what to do!


I was planning on running 25 miles today but have decided to bag that and just get back to feeling better. Hopefully I'll be back on par in a day or two. We have the 50 mile run coming up in a couple of weeks and I want to be ready for that but it looks like ready or not, here it comes!
I'm attaching some photos from Thanksgiving. Tate took photos of the whole family and hopefully he'll send files of those so I can put those on here as well.
Happy Thanksgving!