Ok, I'm nervous.  I shouldn't be though.  I will be starting Trek at our new church hopefully in January.  This is the middle school program of AWANA.  The Lord and I have been going round and round about this and well, HE won.  I'm actually excited about doing this, but then again, I'm sticking myself out there.  I'm going to have to get my organized self out of the box I packed away a few months ago and get busy with this.

Another thing laid on my heart is to begin a Keepers at Home group at my house.  I don't have details yet, but I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do with it.  I really dont' expect to get that one going for a while yet.  That one will take some organization, too.  I want it to be like a bible study on what the Lord has to say about homekeepers and our role in the family.  I also want there to be an activity to go with it such as bread baking, gardening, soap making, etc.  You know, learn some skills that most of us don't do but would maybe like to know or just to have fun for a day.  I very excited about this one, just needs more polish on it.

ANTHER item simmering on the stove is a homeschool group.  There aren't any here, go figure.  Homeschoolers are crawling all over the place and no group.  Hmmmm.  Our church has a gym and the room so this is also someting I want to start hopefully after the first of the year.  Sometimes we need to get together and lift each other up and give a place for the children to socialize (Ewww I hate that word!) but you catch my drift.  Maybe even have organized gym time.  We'll see on that one.

This week will be a busy one.  We will hopefully continue lessons for Monday and Tuesday.  Wednesday we have some friends coming to stay for a couple of nights and the boys are very excited about this.  They will be with us for Thanksgiving.  Then Friday we'll go get our tree, which will be sweet since it's just down the road and any tree for $20 bucks.  For a change we won't have to travel a great distance to obtain the "perfect" tree and pay a mint for it.  Then Saturday our church is having a Thanksgiving dinner for the community.  I'll need tons of prayer on this one.  I'm only helping to prepare food and I'm not going to get in the middle of anything else.  AMEN!  (this event is not very organized and we will have no idea how many people to expect, GASP!)  Sunday, rest.

Farm news:

Hubby and boys have been busy winterizing the animal areas and such.  Making sure waterers stay unfrozen, which is a chore by itself.  We moved the goats in with the calves and now I can see them if they are in the right area.  I love those goats! 

We have a duck in the basement because it was being picked on literally, buy the others so we brought it in to heal and hopefully make an entrance in the near future.  I never thought I'd have farm animals in my house!  We also have a new dog.  He's an Australian shepher and a pretty good dog, except for the occassional chewing.  He's 6 months old and potty trained, just need to work on the chewing part.  IT's not real bad, but not acceptable.

I'm getting anxious for our chickens to start laying.  I'm tired of buying them else where and they aren't laying so great either.  I may have to go back to getting them at the store until ours start to crank them out.

Happy Thanksgiving and hug a turkey!  See my MEEZ in the sidebar!  Too funny.