So yeah, I guess I’ve been putting off blogging long enough. It’s not that I’ve been avoiding it, really, just that nothing’s really happening around here. I’m still waiting to find out whether I’ll get a Ph.D. position (seventeen days until the decision is expected!), and in the meantime I’ve been doing a whole lot of housecleaning and watching no small amount of reality TV (Dancing with the Stars and Sister Wives are my current favorites).

Yesterday, however, we did have a newsworthy event in our annual Thanksgiving dinner. We had a full house with sixteen people and the requisite plentiful amount of food. We even had enough kids (and little enough room at the big table) to have a kids’ table. Here’s the picture that Lydia took, with Debbie’s three kids and my four younger ones: