Thanksgiving & Stuff

I did it. I cooked my first turkey Thanksgiving Day. I think it was pretty good for my first one. Maybe next year I will try to stuff it! I wanted to try to feel young, so I headed out at midnight with some friends for the black Friday adventure. We were out all night. I got home after 8 am, but I had so much fun. I got all but two items that I went after, so I did pretty good.

I saw one of my preschool kid's moms this weekend. She thanked me for preparing her daughter for kindergarten and told me how well she was doing. That made me a little sad for leaving. I had the entire week of Thanksgiving off, plus the week before. I don't think I've had an entire week with no work. I was one day shy of having what I made at preschool. I got called again today to sub, making for this month once again, what I made at preschool. Sept/October I actually made MORE money (and had a lot of fun) and this month I broke even. Thank you God for helping and leading. I hope to use the money to pay for the refrigerator and also some Christmas presents.

mommy and jenna time

I really miss the times where I taught preschool and Jenna was still in preschool. We had every afternoon together before the boys came home. We would shop and do all kinds of things. Well today Jacob went to work with Jack and Josh got invited to play at a friends house, so Jenna and I did some Thanksgiving shopping and came home and started making goodies. We have Christmas playing and are having so much fun. I so treasure this time with her. I look at her and can't believe how fast she is growing. My baby is gone!!

New Kitchen

Our refrigerator was quickly dying. Actually it was working, but water kept leaking everywhere, even after numerous repairs. Last weekend we went shopping and they had 10% off, plus it was tax free weekend. They took our old fridge and put this one in yesterday. I love the extra room in the fridge side. It looks like we have nothing in there because there is so much room. I could still use more freezer room, but I like it. We switched and went with black. We switched the dishwasher plate to black so that it would match. I'm thinking about painting the microwave cart black and someday I want a new kitchen table in......black. I already have it picked out. Its a counter height table. Unfortunately with having to buy this (and I would have rather had many other things than a new fridge) and Christmas and not knowing what will happen to our job, that may be a couple of years down the road. Maybe I should just try to paint the table black.......wanna help Lydia!!! (lol) just kidding!!

1st grade presentation

The two first grade classes presented their projects. I must admit some people got very creative. One used Styrofoam to create an igloo, one used mini marsh mellows and another sugar cubes. They also did a passage of scripture and a poem.

Pilgram Project

Jenna had her first project. She had to write and answer 10 questions in complete sentences. She chose the Sioux Indians. She got that done right away so we worked on her shoe box project which was required by all the students. I found the Indians off Ebay for a good price. She took a ice cream cone and we bit off the end and made a tee pee. She painted it and I think she did a great job with it. She was very proud of it. Two more projects to go before Thanksgiving!!

Dear Mom and dad......

Last night we took Jacob and Jenna to see Despicable Me at the $1 theater (actually $1.50). Josh was away with Travis. Jack bought a bucket that he can get filled all year long so we got a big bucket of popcorn for $2.50. This morning out of the blue Jacob handed me a card. In his best cursive writing it said (outside)" Dear mom and dad" (inside) "Thank you for the movie and popcorn. I love you". I must say something so little was so touching to me. I love it when someone, especially a child, expresses gratitude. I can tell that this family time really meant a lot to him. I think he likes times like these, and I think he likes times when Joshua is gone so that he can have more attention. I think it's hard sometimes to be the middle child.

What's been going on......

I've been listening to the radio today. I love to hear Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns, and so many of these encouraging songs to lift me up. I thought I would blog about what has been going on lately.

• I've been working a lot. This has been the first week in awhile that I've had three days in a row off. I'm sure Nov/Dec will be slower months with it being shorter months. I have so enjoyed working. I've been called, "Mrs. Clean, Mrs. Queen" and so many things in between. God has truly shown me this was where I was supposed to be as the last two months I have made more than preschool!!
• The last three or four weeks have been so stressful as well. It has nothing to do with working, its just a lot of other things going on. A couple of weeks ago I think I had a migraine. I couldn't get rid of the headache and I felt sick on top of it. I know it was stress. I can't go into details of everything that is going on, but let's just say it's been a bumpy ride. We've seen doors closed and hopefully more will open.
• During these down/stressful moments, I have opened my Bible and found things really meant for me for the day. Today I read Psalm 34. I've enjoyed hearing Jacob and Jenna recite for memory vs 7-14, but it helped to read it. vs 8....taste and see that the Lord is good....vs. 10 those that seek the Lord lack no good thing. vs 15...his ears are attentive to their cry vs 17 he delivers them from all their troubles, vs 18 the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those that are crushed in spirit vs. 19 the righteous may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all.

Trick or Treat

Last night we went over to Traci's house for dinner. There was so much food. Kim's family also joined us so we had 7 kids all together. I was so cheap this year. I refuse to buy costumes for just an hour of activity for 3 kids!! Josh went as a Clemson football player, Jacob was a soccer player and Jenna was a princess (of course). Kim had a costume for her so that worked out great.