This is always a busy day for housewives across America, y’know? I was just thinking to myself, while making the obligatory green bean casserole for tomorrow…I wonder just how many people out there are mixing up green beans and mushroom soup and French fried onions right now? I feel sort of a connection to all my sisters in motherhood out there, trying to whip up Thanksgiving dinner and get the house clean for company and create special memories for the kids and do it all without losing the cute flip in our hairdos. It’s not always easy being supermom! I hope all my sisters in the ‘hood manage to get everything crossed off their to-do lists tonight and get to sit down with a cocktail and watch Deal or No Deal in peace. It’s the little things!

The kids and I just got back from my mom’s house. I love her to death and I know her heart is always in the right place, but sometimes she does the most bass-ackwards stuff, all in the name of “helping” me. I spoke to my dad on the phone Sunday night and he filled me in on everything he bought at the market that day for Thanksgiving dinner. And he said not to worry about making the green bean casserole, because my mom wanted to make it so he already bought the ingredients. I didn’t mention to him that I had already bought a pillow-sized bag of French fried onions at Sam’s Club. I can eat those by the handful - who needs a casserole? A few days later, after I’d already done MY grocery shopping for the things I plan to make, my mom called me and said she wanted me to stop by and pick up a big bag of potatoes, a few cans of green beans, mushroom soup mix, and a can of onions so I could make the mashed potatoes and the green bean casserole. What the…? Evidently she thought it would be helpful to me if she bought a few things so I wouldn’t have to spend the money on them. Bless her heart. So I packed up all my kids and drove 8 miles to her house and 8 miles back home so I can make the damned green bean casserole. Thank goodness she saved me all that time and money!!

As soon as these little monkeys finish up their Girl Cheese Sandwiches, they’re going to head up to nappyland so I can make deviled eggs and broccoli cheese casserole and try to find the family room floor so I can vacuum it. I seriously have NEVER seen the place this messy. Paul let the kids get down a bunch of toys from the shelf last night so we have half a dozen puzzles, several entire bin’s worth of Mister Potato Head parts, magnetic letters, My Little Ponies, Barbies, and these weird x-shaped building block thingies ALL OVER the family room. Along with the slew of baby dolls and stuffed animals and books all strewn about. It’s enough to make a mother weep.

Say a little prayer for me that I will get to sit on the sofa with a cocktail watching Deal or No Deal later!

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