November is Here!

November has arrived. Bringing with it the slippery slope toward our birthday-and-holidays extravaganza. As of today, BigBrother’s fourth birthday is in 16 days and LittleBrother’s second birthday is in 23 days. Their presents, except for one, are in house. I do not have the cake ordered though the invitations are on their way to me right now. (Of course I made my own through VistaPrint. Did you know that I’m giving away 50 holiday cards?) As far as Christmas presents go, the boys are almost done. I know what I’m buying others. (And my Christmas cards are ordered, of course.)

I’ve taken the pink off the site as it is no longer Breast Cancer Awareness Month. November is Adoption Awareness Month which I’m sure I’ll write about elsewhere. Our header features Thanksgiving celebration images. It’s also National Novel Writing Month (of which I will not be participating in this year, thankyouverymuch). Thankfully, it’s also NaBloPoMo which I may or may not succeed in finishing. I did find two desktop backgrounds that I liked this month but, sadly, they each only offered room for one picture. Despite having some great solo-pics of the boys this month, minus their costume pictures, I don’t have a great one of them both. So while my desktop is pretty the photo itself is rather boring. Oh well!

Here’s the one I chose. (And this is another great option which includes an iPhone background that I think I’ll use.)

Considering our busy schedule and the fact that I start my new job tomorrow, I’m sure November will be a very hectic month. Here’s hoping that we remember to stay thankful day in and day out. (Even if we do seem to have some respiratory malady up in here. Ugh.)