I can't believe November is here al...

I can't believe November is here already. It assumes we've scarcely become accustomed to our family's fall schedule, and now it's time to start getting pressureed about Christmas preparations. The challenges of homeschooling four children and meeting the indigences of a preschooler and a baby have stretched me to my limits. Then there are the mountains of laundry, editorial deadlines, household chores, driving the twenty-mile orbicular trip thrice weekly for the kids' music lecturings and choir practice, plus coping with my husband's occasional absences befitting to farm work, community service, and business travel. (And they also anticipate me to cook--every ...