OK so that is obviously not true, but here is why…

We went out to dinner tonight (because I still haven’t made it to the grocery store…) in Willow Glen. On Tuesdays Willow Street Pizza has s “kids eat free” night. Which means I save $10 on dinner – yes that is 2 kids meals and yes they each finished a whole kids pizza!!!!!! Then literally just next door is Baskin Robins (we decided to get ice cream on a whim) on Tuesdays they have $1 scoop night!!!

What could be better than – free kids meals and cheap ice cream? I am sure you can think of something, but it was a very pleasant surprise to me today!

For next year…because every year I think “I’ll have to remember that for next year” so here are my notes – ignore if they don’t interest you!

4x Stuffing is a bit too much
3x Brocolli Caserole is not too much
No Veggie Plate – no matter how much you want one.
More meat and cheese
More Spinach Dip
Warm Olives
Buy Gladware for leftovers
No Peanuts

In spite of the list above we did have a very lovely Thanksgiving with family. 10 people in all including 3 kiddos!

So my “readers” (*cough* all 3 of you) may have noticed some new content on our (Scott’s and mine) blogs… As I mentioned in a previous entry we joined Facebook a few months ago, and I have become hooked on their “status.” It is just too much fun to actually keep updating it with what I am actually doing! So when we got new phones in October (yes I now can SMS – welcome to the 21st century I know) I really wanted to be able to update my FB status from my phone (cause I am sure everyone wants to know what I am doing all the time) Any way, long story short, the service I found to do updates (Twitter) can be set up (by my super cool computer man) to update my blog – how cool is that!!!!
So now everyone can see what I am up to, even if you aren’t on FB! (but why wouldn’t you be?)

I think we are finally on the tail end of the “car accident that wasn’t” We have gotten:

• the checks for our car seats
• the car door repaired
• the reimbursement for the rental car (while they were fixing the door for 10 days!)
• bought the new car seats and installed them

The only remaining this I know of is getting our deductible back – who knows how long that will take.

On the car seat front
Jessaleigh is now in a Britax Boulevard. I am not entirely sure she likes it! She is very particular about the webbing harness straps not touching her skin, which makes it critical how you buckle her. My only other complained about the seat is the very small “comfort pads” at the neck. It is nearly impossible to keep them in place and protect all of her neck.

Chanler is now in a Britax Frontier. He has only had it for one day, but here are my first impressions.
It also has very small neck pads (way too small!), the straps annoy me (the buckles get lost at the bottom of the seat), the seat bottom is very long (Chanler can’t bend his knees), it has NO working cup holder (which was a great feature of his last seat) and the arm rest are a joke. Still trying to convince myself that this is the right seat. All the things I dislike about it are cosmetic, the reasons we choose this seat over getting the old one again were safety related and I still think they are valid. I just wish the cosmetic things were better. *sigh*

Some useful links if ever you need to replace your car seats!
http://www.car-seat.org/
http://www.aap.org/family/carseatguide.htm