things i am doing this week

-picking up our china visa's...lil over a week away yippidooos!
-preparing ry's care package
-mailing corin's b-day present
-greeting moma & grandma for a week of family Thanksgiving celebrations
-reading up on china, brushing up on some chinese, and reading PoPo's books
-secretly loving that bobs and jeff are occupied with fantasy football so i can have peaceful moments to myself (shhhh! even though i think football is the sickest sport and pray my kids never want anything to do with it or guns)
-reading 1 & 2 kings
-trying to find an early Christmas tree farm so i don't miss out on the family outing to get Christmas trees when bobs and i leave to go to shanghai
-trying to convince bobby to stay longer in china and explore regions beyond the ritz
-decorating for christmas early since this will be my second year away for Christmas and i don't want to ball my eyes out before and during it like last year. why am i such a wimp!?!!
-converting the world to skype
-avoiding job searching with these activies
-praying about all the above