Early Holiday Greetings from the Chambers

If you won't be able to actually see us this Holiday season, this is pretty much the same routine you would see in person.

Thanks to Jay and Kelley for the heads up on choreography.

T-giving Wrapup

It's 8 o clock, the kids are in bed, and we're thankful for a few minutes to sit back and watch TV and digest, among other things, heirloom turkey, collard cobbler, spinach madeline and apple cranberry pie. Dad is already apprehensive about eating a turkey sandwich in the library tomorrow, just as he has previously done on the Friday after Thanksgiving for two years in a row - exams are always a little too close to Thanksgiving. For that matter, this is the 8th Thanksgiving in a row Dad has had exams or papers hanging over him. We presume it is the last.

But we're thankful for lots this year. Two great kids, we're all healthy, we have great friends, and we'll soon have a member of the family gainfully employed.

Annabelle may be thankful for her weight gain here at Thanksgiving - 2 lbs in the last month. But she has no way of telling us. Barritt, however, revealed the following, just before bed tonight:

Dad: B, what are you thankful for on Thanksgiving?

Barritt: (pauses) Treats . . . and food . . . and friends . . . and French toast.

Enough said.

Take this, growth chart!

New for Winter: Annabelle's fat face, for extra warmth.

"I want to go to mountains"

This was Barritt's mantra all weekend. We just spent the weekend with good friends Rick and Amy in Blue Ridge,GA. We visited Amicalola Falls, where Barritt got to see a park ranger with a barn owl up close, while eating his fill of their excellent (presumably state-subsidized) buffet. We then headed to the cabin, where leaves were in their autumnal peak, and where there were views of Tennessee and South and North Carolina. But even when we were already there, Barritt kept reiterating that he wanted "to go to the mountains." Yes, even while driving over the Appalachian Trail at Neels Gap, he repeated himself.



We can't figure out what further kinds of mountains he is longing for. Maybe he is thinking eschatologically. Occam's razor, however, suggests that he may simply not know what mountains are.



Regardless we had a good time. And Georgia killed Auburn. Which was also awesome.

For those who have demanded recent video

We've had some serious tech issues lately. And we forgot to film anything on Halloween per se. But this is close. Barritt's first pumpkin carving. It was obviously a little too exciting.