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Well! Thanksgiving went very well, I am very happy with our holiday. Mike and Shannon came over and spent alot of time hanging out before going back to her mom's for dinner - hope they weren't late! That girl is such an awesome influence on him. I wasn't sure they were going to make it but am really glad they did. Trudi came with her wonderful addicting chex mix... yowm, I have Trudi's chex mix. It is the best most wonderful snack mix ever. My mom was a bit of a punk but not as bad as she can be sometimes, mostly she was her usual self - she ducked out fairly early since she had alot going on this morning. Jay was good and I sent him home with a big tub of leftovers. Liam seemed to be really well behaved though I didn't spend much time with him, and Stasha & I got in lots of chattering with the other girls. Duane brought some card games so there was plenty of cardplaying happening in the living room.

The food was yummy - turkey was wonderful (yay me!) and took longer than the recipe said - glad I put it in an hour early. Think I'll use the recipe again. Potato soup somehow wasn't perfect - made it the same as at the practice dinner but some of the baked potato chunks were hard like they hadn't been cooked long enough - very odd and I'm not sure what happened there. But that was the only thing that wasn't exactly right, not bad for my first time! It seemed like everyone enjoyed and had a good time and all that, so I'm calling it a success.

Did a bit of running around today - xmas shopping and such - after cleaning up the house. Stasha was supposed to call me this morning but guess she forgot :( no big deal though. Got some wrapping done and found out Nate's sister Becky and her family may be coming out to CA for Christmastime... that would really be nice. Offered to let them stay here if they do... might be a little less spacious but Cassie and Becky cannot stand living with each other, and it's only going to be worse this year. So I might have leeeeeeetle childrens scampering around! Wheee!

Ah, now to do a bathmaking party post...

Come make soap!!

Okay girlies, here's the scoop -

Making soaps and such, at my house.
Sunday December 8th - starting around 1:00ish?

I have some molds and I know Rois has a bunch - everyone is welcome to bring their own and/or share those. Rois has got scads of scents, I've got a couple and a bunch of scent sprays I'm going to give a try. I know for sure we're making soaps and bath bombs - I am also going to be making bath salts, candles, and maybe salt or sugar scrubs for the sets I'm sending people, but not sure how much of that will get done on the 8th and how much I'll do separate.

Want to play? Bring your own supply of melt & pour soap (got mine at Michaels, they have a couple different types), and if you have any molds or particular perfumes/scents that you want, bring those too.

I have Rois & Stasha confirmed as coming. Jennifer, let me know if you and/or Kelly can make it. I figured I could make dinner or we could order something, maybe get a couple movies too for when we're waiting for soaps to cool. Fun fun fun, and lovely yummy smelling things to give people for xmas!