i know its been sometime

so much time i forgot my password. we're prepping for our thanksgiving vaca, getting out of dodge, cause honestly i think we are the only people who don't have family to celebrate thanksgiving with, and no one invited us to join them (losers!). so why stick around?? spending christmas alone is super fine with me, in fact its perfect, thanksgiving though seems a tad depressing, and lux asks the obvious questions like "whose house are we going to for thanksgiving" and "why aren't we going to anyone's house", you know the usual, when your 6 and you assume the world revolves around you. she has the week off from school, and we have her parent teacher conference tuesday am. i will keep as an artifact the letter we got from her teacher "pointers for a successful parent conference" a) be open minded to feedback b) show appreciation c) don't be emotional d) show appreciation e) be grateful - REALLY didn't you mention that more than once, what honestly do you expect us to do?? her teacher this year is goofy and i think has a "parents are the enemy" sort of viewpoint, i mean thats likely too strong of a statement but its something like that. i'm quite certain geoffrey will be super direct and it will make for a GREAT parent conference - because we do have some niggly concerns that she is being held back a bit and not challenged...because she is superstar to us! jeez i've missed writing about huxley's little moments, like for instance at bedtime when he says to me when he suspects i'm getting ready to leave the room "you're not going anywhere", "sit down, hold hands", "mommy ALWAYS here", "daddy always here", everyone says this particular form of emotional attachment is just his age, nope its huxley, he's HIGHLY tuned to where i am particularly. today he woke up from his nap and i wasn't home and upon seeing geoff he said "go away, i wait for mommy" and he meant it. yesterday we went to bellingham and wung his nap, what a terrible mistake that was, no nap and instead of passing out at bedtime tht you would have thought he would do, bedtime was a total battle, he was exhaused. we went to celebrate sweet amahra's first birthday. okay i will write more, i'm an ass for not. good night.