Just a few things going on...

The kids are asleep, and I've allotted 10 minutes, until 12:56, to blog while I drink this second cup of coffee. Half caff. Makes me feel better about drinking more coffee in general.

We are having a family reunion this weekend, with my husband's siblings and all their children. My husband suggests that "Family Reunion" has bad connotations and makes you feel like it will be a boring time of talking to people you never see, and wishes to call it "Gathering of the Clans." He thinks that has more of a Scottish Games type feel to it. It can go on the list of unusual titles, along with Superwagon. And for those of you who don't know, we DO NOT have a mini-van, but a superwagon. His logic: Why have a MINI van when you can have a SUPER wagon? I've just used up two of my minutes telling you that.

So, thirty-five (35!) people in all will be spending Thursday through Monday night partying in our neck of the woods. Now that there are three siblings in the area, along with WH's parents relatively close by, we can easily split up all the out-of-towners, which would be the other three siblings and their children. We get to host his eldest brother and wife, and their five kids, although word has it that the older cousins may be doing a bit of house-swapping over the weekend. I didn't really have a lot of cousins my age, but it seems like it would be so fun to be one of twenty-one grandchildren, nine and under.

Since there are six families plus WH's parents, we have split up the meals by giving a day (lunch and dinner) of meals to groups of two families. Our turn is on Friday and we needed to do something simple since we'll be out all day. WH will pulling out the turkey fryer to cook up some chicken and french fries, and we'll do some salads and watermelon. Lunch will be various salads (crab, chicken), cheese and crackers, veggies and hummus, and fruit.

I am taking advantage of having seven extra people in my house and using this as an excuse to deep clean some neglected areas like windows and such. That, and I'm trying to get a last-minute sewing project done for a friend. And WH is sick in bed with a fever and the flu. I'm four minutes over, so I should run. Hope you have a great weekend, and if I am absent over the next few days you'll know I'm enjoying the fam.