Things to be thankful for

Okay, here are some things we have to be thankful for. A couple of items may look boastful, but hey! we can be thankful for those things too, right?!

1) Emily can be thankful for a great volleyball season with great improvement over this time last year. The team lost the championship game, but Emily played one of her best games, so-Way to Go Emily!

I don't know why Emily wouldn't smile any bigger than that!

2) Dan can be thankful for a big promotion at work.

There are been MAJOR changes with the the selling of Trane by American Standard, the aquisition of Trane by Ingersoll Rand, and now the Merger of Trane with Hussman and ThermoKing. So while I can not explain everything, because I don't exactly have details, Dan's job (which was unruly before) has now become mammoth! I don't know that he is being paid more, hmph! But I can tell you he is working a lot more! (We are back to the schedule he kept in San Antonio) This will be a big, busy year, as there will be a lot of changes over the next year as the transition takes place. But he definitely deserves congratulations, and we are very thankful as not everyone has fared as well in the recent (or upcoming) changes!


3)Danya is thankful for chorus. She loves music and is a bit of a performer at heart I think. She always has assignments for me. This week I was to make her a scarf and a skirt. She is pretty gracious and ambitious herself, so I don't mind helping out when I can. Today is her first chorus concert, they have two shows at school and one tonight. She couldn't sleep last night with all of the anticipation. I am thankful she is allowed to sing in the choir at church too.

4) Caleb is thankful for reading and playing outside. He was declared to have significant reading deficiencies at the beginning of the year, which floored us. But his teacher told me yesterday that he no longer needs morning tutorial camp (he's only been there 2 weeks) and she and the camp teacher agree the deficiencies are gone. I caught him reading in Time Out the other day- yahoo! He also loves to be outdoors and really wants to be able to climb our tree in the backyard, so he is really working on that!

5) Carson is thankful for werewolves, something he has seen everywhere he goes since Halloween. He is also thankful for jingle bells which he sings every chance he gets. He must be thankful for nursery since he gets so excited after sitting in the chapel or entering the church, saying, "Oh, my nursery class! My nursery class! No, not go chapel, go nursery class!"

6) I am thankful my rolls turned out for Thanksgiving dinner. They were light and fluffy like Grandma Kartchner's rolls.

We had a very nice time. We had a few ladies from church over and one family (just the dad and two boys came, mom stayed home with their new baby). After dinner we did a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle--I didn't force it on anyone, they all just happened to enjoy puzzles, someone else picked the 1000 pc one. We did the whole thing in one night.
Meanwhile my kids watched TV and beat a couple of teenage deliquents (Joyce's boys) that were also at dinner with swimming noodles and had a blast as well!