What a long week! I felt like the work week would never end..... thank god it did :) And now its a long weekend - yay!!! The weather is supposed to be sunny and nice, so I'm looking forward to getting the kids out and enjoying the last little bit of sunshine before the cold weather & s#%w hits.... yeah, that's a bad word!

Chris has been working on the whole potty training thing this week. He started on Tuesday with underwear all day and diapers only at sleeptime. Daycare are working with him and are being great. He's had a couple of accidents, and he refuses to poop in the potty! He'll eventually get it, I don't think he's completely ready for it yet, but we're working on it :)

Joey has a project to do for school. He has to pick a country and write about it. Mmmmm, wonder what country he'll choose?! Jason thinks he should choose Africa or something, but Joey gets to decide. I think it will be a lot of work for him, but I hope he enjoys it. He's doing well otherwise in school, getting all his words right on his weekly spelling tests. His writing is all of a sudden getting better :) He is finally realizing that if he slows down, he writes so much better and his work is awesome. Still doing GREAT with his reading - just like me, he loves books ;)

Jason was laid off last Friday, this time an indefinite layoff. This is a good thing though, as now he can go back to school. May not be until January, but this way he can get training in something other than manufacturing... we all know where that industry is headed right now. So this could actually work out :) We're looking on the bright side of things.

I don't think that I've mentioned this before, but back in August I went for an MRI. I've been getting a lot of weird tingly feelings in my arms & legs, and other weird stuff. The doctor wanted to do an MRI because she suspected MS. The results are finally in - I have some degenerative arthritis in my neck and a problem with one of the discs in my back. She's sending me to a neurologist to find out what can be done about the disc - physio or surgery. Preferably physio, but we'll see. They also found a tiny, tiny, tiny, 3mm "patch" on my brain and they have no clue what it is. I'll be having another MRI in a years time to see if it has grown, or if there are any more "patches", and hopefully then they will be able to tell me more. I'm just surprised that they even found a brain in there ;)

I'm pretty much done my Christmas shopping for the kids! I've never, ever been this prepared, but I figured with Jason being laid off that I didn't want to get stuck at Christmas time. I'm hoping that they'll like their gifts (who am I kidding? They'll love the stuff!) and that this will be their very best Christmas yet. I know it will be for me... Chris knows and understands what it is now, so he's very excited. Every time he sees something on tv he looks around and says "Ho Ho, me want that"! So cute!

Today is my dad's birthday. Chris called him tonight and sang his very own rendition of Happy Birthday and was quite understandable. We won't say how old he is, but happy birthday anyways dad!

All is quiet here now... the kids are both in bed, Jason's out at a friends place and I'm just about to start some laundry then watch a movie. Oooh, what a thrilling Friday night :) Have a great weekend and a very happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!