Do we look ready for Thanksgiving at our house?
My nephew and son have been busy helping out.
Our bathroom cabinet is painted but nothing is put back. We’d work on it but…
We’ve had a little situation.
Ignore the child wearing the undies on his head.
See the vacuum? That is next to my mom, who is trying to vacuum up the DEAD MOUSE! The one we can smell but cannot see. Yep, right on cue. Just in time for Thanksgiving. I am a dead rodent magnet right before parties and holidays. I am not kidding you, my friends will all attest to this. If anything can go wrong just before a party at my house, it will. And it oftentimes involves unpleasantness. Unfortunately, he did not get sucked up by the vacuum so we have to search elsewhere.
While we cannot see him we do see some droppings in our game closet. Yes, where our kids’ games are kept. So sanitary. Knight in shining armor has arrived home and will be searching through Disney Monopoly and The Game of Life very soon.
We will resume our regularly scheduled beautiful inspiring design blog after this brief interlude. I hope. In less than 48 hours I will be serving Thanksgiving in this house. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
PS. Now you have had a glimpse in to our hallway, Project #431 on my To Do list for the next year!
Great photos!
Hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Many Blessings,
Sandy
You make me laugh uncontrollably!!!! Happy Thanksgiving!! Despite your issues…I know you will have a good one….
Happy Thanksgiving Melissa! I hope you are having a wonderful day with your family!!
xo,
Becky
Haha I laughed out loud. You’ll have a wonderful Thanksgiving because of all this – you’ll still laugh about it years from now!
So cute! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
I love it. BUT it does point to what you are thankful for- pleasant smells, clean nephews, underwear in the correct place!
Happy thanksgiving 
Melissa – we’ve had, umhmmm, rodent problems, off and on at our house for years. I can’t tell you the troubles we’ve gone through trying to seal up the house and attic. What we have found that really works is a good old fashioned trap. We have them set all over the attic – and it really works.
Hope you had a great thanksgiving!!!
Joni
OMG. This cracks me up!!!I have a post very similar. In fact my husband said “stop printing pictures of our house for everyone to see,were slobs, It’s embarrassing!” TG, Someone else with guts!!! I LOVE YOU!
Jen R
underwear on the head. You gotta love boys! So, did ya find the mouse…didya didya?
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Wasn’t it an absolutely gorgeous northwest day!
I love it! You are human and you have a human household!
Yes, thank you so much for sharing your ‘stuff’ and such, in this very down-to-earth entry. -giggles-
Mari-Nanci
I always see such beautiful, inspirational pictures on your blog, but *these* are the pictures that remind me of my home. This is usually what we have goin’ on, underwear on the head and all. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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The beautiful holiday photos are lovely, just lovely. Hope you are having a nice weekend.
Alexandra
This looks like my house sometimes! Thanks for showing that we all have days like this! Appreciate the visit to my blog and love yours… I’ll be back!
I about choked on my water…….wish it was a martini……when you said “ignore the child with the underware” I had to take a double take to make sure that wasn’t my house!
The dead mouse will dry up soon.
that IS priceless! i just pray the little buddies (not) will stay behind and not attend to the parties at the new home!
i’ve so enjoyed the photos….
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Love your little “Captain Underpants”!!! LOL To date, my four have not tried that yet (or at least I haven’t witnessed it)! I’m sure your Thanksgiving went off without a hitch, but I’m sure you’ll have interesting memories when you move!!!
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Try having weekend visitors come see and stay at your house for the first time and smell what smells like a rotting body…outside…after they left we searched the property and found a dead javalina stuck in a drainage pipe…an 80 lb big fat harry pig, rotting….and then the joy of trying to find someone to get rid of it and FAST! Best $80 I ever spent!
Thank the LORD I am not the only one!!! Thanks for the post. I hope Thanksgiving turned out delightful in spite of…
Ahhh, this post does my heart good.
Undies on his head, war zone in the hallway, and even a mouse. Feels like home to me!
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