We survived our first holiday in our new house!  Thanksgiving was a great success!  I got some special plates and a table runner for the occasion and pulled out the Waterford glasses and everything looked really nice for a first run.  There was a brief moment of panic when the turkey was done way faster than I thought it would be but it turns out I had the meat thermometer in a bad spot so that was easily fixed.  And then of course there was the moment my dad and I were scrambling around in the market the night before because I forgot brining bags for the turkey.  Of course they didn’t carry bringing bags so we decided a thick trash bag would suffice.  Dad kept accidentally picking out Febreeze lined bags because they had ties at the top.  Thank God I noticed otherwise we would have had a very weird tasting turkey!  But all was well in the end because the food turned out great and the turkey was perfectly cooked and moist.  Phew!

I am 26 weeks pregnant now and starting to get tired again.  I am really hoping it’s just a passing phase and I get a little bit of energy back.  I feel like I had about 5 good weeks where I had energy, didn’t feel horrible, and was able to get out and do things but now the pendulum is starting to swing back the other way and the fatigue is creeping back into my day.  Another possibility is that Christmas is approaching and I have never been a fan of Christmas.  It drains me completely and I hate the whole gift-giving aspect as strange as it sounds.  Of course it’s much more fun with kids but also more exhausting.  Still, I much prefer Thanksgiving to Christmas.  Either way, time will tell if I can get a few more good weeks in before the third trimester starts and all the discomforts that accompany it!

So that’s that!  I am off to try and get my photography assignment done!  I take classes at the Austin School of Photography and love everything about it.  The teacher is amazing.  I have 1 more class left and then will likely go through withdrawals.  Next I’ll have to sign up for his Documentary class, if I can 🙂