We trashed their beautiful house \u2014 as usual \u2014 which I always feel so bad about, but my sister and her husband are expecting their first baby in the spring, so I’m sure that they will begin paying me back once my kids are older \u2014 and I finally have a somewhat clean house \u2014 and they come storming in with their “crew” to turn my place upside down!! By the way…I know what she is thinking right now as she reads this…”What do you mean by ‘<\/span>crew<\/em>‘?!!”\u00a0 Haha! That is just my own wishful thinking that they are blessed with lots of kids and crazy<\/em> happiness like I am!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Our Thanksgiving break officially kicked-off on Wednesday when the girls got out of school early and I picked them up there (which I don’t normally do). They love it when they don’t have to ride the bus and they were SUPER excited that we were heading to Aunt Amber and Uncle Steve’s house for our […] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,99,98,96],"tags":[285,290,288,152,292,286,291,289,202,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-51","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-black-friday","7":"category-family-traditions","8":"category-santa-calling","9":"category-thanksgiving","10":"tag-black-friday-ads","11":"tag-call","12":"tag-fisher-price","13":"tag-home","14":"tag-phone","15":"tag-phone-call-from-santa","16":"tag-shopping","17":"tag-side-dishes","18":"tag-thanksgiving-2","19":"tag-thanksgiving-dinner","20":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n